Still Going Strong After One Year!

I know it''s been awhile since I've posted anything

on the Villa's progress.

 We have been as busy as ever though.

Lately we have focused on the first floor.

I hate to call it a basement because it has outdoor access

 from three sides, hardly a basement.

I wouldn't even call it a daylight basement,

 so it is dubbed, 'the first floor'.

This part of the house used to be a detached garage in the 30's. Then, it was later moved to the main house and an upstairs was added on top of it. It has always been used as a garage, until now. Here we are gutting out all the shelving and cabinets. Insulation and support beams go next.

This corner of the first floor will be Skye's bedroom.

 The window on the right has been replaced with a much bigger window, set higher on the wall.

 The window to the left has been completely removed.

 There will be a 15X15 addition in it's place. The addition will be Laiken's room.

We cut out a door at the end of the hallway so we can have access to the back yard from the first floor.

 This will also be great for access to the bathroom. In this picture you can see some of the new framing.

The new doorway into Skye's room.

The "prison bathroom" is twice as large now.

 When it's all finished we might have to find a new name for it.

Arron and Skye are building me a laundry cabinet.

 It is raised so I don't have to bend to transfer clothes.

Arron will build drawers underneath,

and a shelf above for storage.

Here is the doorway to the back yard

after the cement guys cut through the foundation.

The door on the right will be Laiken's bedroom

 door when the addition is finished.

I think Arron is pretty pleased with the way the first floor is turning out!

This room with all the tools, will be a bonus room/theatre room.

You can see in the room behind it Skye's new bedroom window.

While we have been working on the first floor

there are many other jobs being worked on.

Most exciting is our stucco crew

has all the paper, foam, and wire up.

 We have had to wait for inspection for several days,

 but they should be able to mud after the weekend,

 then comes the stucco and rock!

We also have a good friend working on the plumbing,

A contractor working on electrical and an

 HVAC crew is putting in our new geothermal

heating and cooling system.