As we pulled up, though, I noticed something weird:
The eastern slope of the bedroom/laundry room first-floor gable matches the garage perfectly...
but it shouldn't... it should be at least a foot higher and a couple of feet to the east
[for reference, check out the elevations of the plans]
There are a couple problems with this that I'll address a little later... but first, I check out the rest of the exterior (but I'm pretty distracted)...
The stairwell looks cool with its south (above) and east windows (below)
[Joni pictures stained-glass in that eastern window... that's a good idea: the UCLA script logo would look great lording over our Trojan friends! ;) ]
The upstairs bath now has an overhanging eave:
The western side of the house now has some roofing framing...
But because I'm distracted by the dove-tailing of the garage and that eastern slope of the first-story gable, I'm paranoid, and I jump to the conclusion that the western slope over Dad's bedroom and the Master Bedroom is supposed to be a simple slope, not another gable. Lisa tells me that she's pretty sure it's a gable, and it turns out that she's correct (and my freaking out was unnecessary...) but the damn garage thing has me out of sorts, thinking that the crew is ad-libbing from the plans without consulting us. And I'm not a happy camper.
I head into the house to check out how this sloping gable looks from the inside and it's obvious from the laundry room:
Soooooo, why is this such an issue for me?
Well, that gable should be a couple of feet to the east (right) and possibly another foot higher... with that extra space, it would allow for more attic crawl- and storage space... and it would make it easier to put in a laundry chute door that is actually UNDER that roof line.
But the Bedroom 2 (Dad's) roof framing over the west side looks pretty cool nonetheless...
I head into the garage to find a roof panel replaced (not sure what happened there...) ... and part of the garage plaster wall removed to expose the new attic space
[note again that the right/eastern sloping roof line matches the Laundry Room roof line when it shouldn't (I sure did)]
Head back into the Master Bedroom and check out the western roof framing...
Then I head upstairs... and the boys' bathroom skylight is now open for business!
(it juts out from the roof pretty high [distractingly so now], but I'm sure they'll cut it down smoother to the roof line in the next few days)
The family room west wall now shows the frame for that exterior gable:
But more importantly, the ceiling attic access is now cut open (and on this hot day, I can't wait for the heater/air conditioner to go up there)...
But I'm drawn back to the south wall of the Family room, and I look out the hole (that's--admittedly--too high but is supposed to be the laundry chute), and I stare out at that damn matching slope...
Something's gotta give...
I want that laundry chute...
And it doesn't look any better from the true window...
The western gable, though, does look cool (even if I'm grumbling and cranky, thinking this is another deviation from the plan, which it isn't)
Under the stairs we find a new hole
(we're thinking it must have something to do with the water heater)...
And while progress is seen
this is the first time I'm really UNhappy with the changes I've seen. I think the drawings look better with the differentiation between the garage roof line and the first story bedroom/laundry room roof line. Lisa isn't bothered by it, and thinks it looks fine; but it just doesn't look right to me.
I'll send off an email to Fred tonight, asking that if he's at Maxine tomorrow to call me so I can come over and discuss some stuff (and hint at my "concerns" about differences from the plans)... I'm worried not only about losing the laundry chute, and the lost cubic footage of attic space, but I'm now also paranoid that these deviations will have an effect on City inspections (I'm not sure it matters, but my fear [rational or not] is that it might)...
But time will tell, and it will all work out.
Won't it?
No comments:
Post a Comment