The garden room / mud room area will be like an above-ground basement. Concrete floors, utilitarian features, and ready to do work.
View Into the Garden Room
Planing Lumber
I filled three 39 gallon trash bags full of sawdust doing this.
Here’s a math problem I don’t want to do: what percentage of wood that I purchase actually ends up in the thing I’m making vs. the percentage that ends up as sawdust / firewood / scrap / trash / sits on my wood rack for decades doing nothing.
Chutes and Ladders
Thankfully we don’t have monkeys.
Making Cabinets WITH LASER BEAMS!
Next, if we could just mount them on the heads of trained sharks …
Light Box
Made from a string of lights and some old sake bottles.
The Garden Path
Making Cabinets
Where to put them until we’re ready to install is kind of an issue.
Roof Trusses
Walls
I was right, we do get walls on the second story. That’s good. It’s a long fall when you’re stumbling around in the dark and mis-step.
It’s hard to take good pictures of framing. When you see it first hand, you can tell where walls and doorways are going to be and the house starts to come together in your head. In a picture, though, it just looks like a bunch of sticks. So trust me here, that’s a bathroom doorway and a bedroom doorway and the landing at the top of the stairs. I know it just looks like firewood, but add a little drywall and paint and it’ll be an actual room. Pretty sure we get a roof too.
Tile
Enough for a walk in shower, at least.