Hmmm…how long has it been since I posted? Yikes!
Sorry folks (Yeah, right! Like there are any folks reading this but me!). We have all been sick for the last two months and I need to get off this ride! One gets betters, then another is down. Then the latter gets better and the former is down. Man alive! It needs to freeze and stay frozen so these bugs will stay dead!
Anyway, did I ever mention that we are totally redoing out upstairs? Well, we are. We gutted the girls room, from the floor to the ceiling. We removed two walls in their room; then had to put an LVL beam up in place of one of the walls. You see, our house is 100 years old this year and it wasn’t built to the standars houses are built today. The floor joices are running nirth to south in half of the house and then in the other half, they are running east to west. Which made the load bearing wall we took down, push the floo down. As a result, the floor was “sagging” some 2 inches.
So the LVL was put tp replace the load bearing wall. We were not expecting the beam to have to be 16′ long. So it goes from the out side of the room (the out side wall) and into our bathroom, stoping in the middle of the hallway closet. It is stoping there because that it the first area that is over a wall downstairs. Did I mention that this load bearing wall was not built over a wall downstairs?
Anyway, the other wall we took out was the side of their closet, at the far end of our hallway. Since we decided to change our closet around (the door to Adam’s side opened out into the hallway, which we decided to close over and make an opening in the room), that space was not needed (his closet door opened across from their bedroom door). We continued the wall from the bathroom to the other side of the hallway, ending just to the right of our bedroom doorway. This wall now is where their bedroom doorway is. And their closet has gone from a 4′ x 5.5′ closet to a 9.5′ x 32″ closet, with a 6′ opening. Very nice. And their room has gone from 9.5′ x 13′ room to 9.5′ x 21′ room . An odd demension, I know, but still very nice.
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now, but not finished yet
