With all the cultural activites and Archer Mayor excitement, you might think that construction is either done or has ground to a halt… not at all.

Last week, we turned a real corner in moving from de-struction to con-struction. We’ve framed in the new mud room, most of the upstairs laundry and bathroom areas, and the long central wall that will divide the kitchen from the master bedroom. Here, L is looking into the new kitchen, with the entry / mudroom shown on the right, and laundry and powder room behind her and to the leftt.

You can see the original ceiling height in the strandboard beams kind of behind L. In much of the house, we are raising the ceiling to the level of the higher cross ties you can just see in front of her. That has a dramatic effect on the overall feeling of openness… since none of the rooms are really all that big, the higher ceilings really have an impact.

Things are going nicely, and now that we’re in the middle of it, I’m glad that our crew has been down a man for part of this week, because there are lots of decisions to be made.