When I drove by the house early this AM, there were about 10 pickup trucks parked up and down the street. I haven’t seen that much activity since the demo crew arrived three months ago, so I was both pleased and perplexed.
Things slowed down in the last few months as we were warned they would. The plumbing, electrical and A/C all needed to go in and those are the tedious, perfectionist tasks that are very complicated but don’t show well in pics. Look! Another light switch! Look! A can light! Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, the framers have returned to fix the sill issue on all of the windows (they’ve done the bottom floor but haven’t erected their makeshift scaffolding to do the second floor yet). I saw the electrician’s truck; yesterday he was on a ladder all day installing all of the outdoor lighting. And… drum roll please… the STAIR guys were there this morning!

That’s right! They are FINALLY going to be putting in some stairs!!
Who knows if I will have any pics to post later tonight, the stairs are some complicated foo. We didn’t give our contractor an exact idea of what to build, we simply gave him a bunch of pictures and told him generally what we wanted and then trusted him to find an artiste who could erect something wonderful. This is how much we trust our contractor, see?
The main points were that we wanted the stairs to be as open as possible since they are in the middle of an open area and we didn’t want them to block the view, sound or energy flow of the first floor. We also wanted the railing of the stairs to match the deck railing to create a flow between the indoors and outdoors. Both the stair treads and decking will be in Ipe wood.
When I drove by, there were four guys standing right inside the front door where the stairs will go, tape measures in hand. I am so. freaking. excited.