Framing Progress

	The photo at the left is the powder room framing.  The ladder is in the middle of the powder room and is not quite centered in the rough opening for the door.  I am standing in the family room looking toward the corner with the new windows.
	The washing machine is happily standing in the space that it will occupy in its final home. The dryer will be located to its right, below the window.  This will be a large closet with louvered bifold doors 72" wide.
	The washing machine is in its closet, the ladder is in the adjacent powder room.  The tabbed framing coming toward you from the wall between the powder room and laundry closet has a mate to your left beyond the edge of the picture. Between the two arms or tabs will be a utility closet and pantry cabinet/closet.
	On 5/19 and 5/20 the last of the rough framing was finished.  In this and the next few photos I show views of the pocket doors.  To say that it took us two days to re-frame the dining room wall and then show a photo of just studs begs one to ask why we worked so slow.  Hanging the pocket doors in their tracks gives a greater sense of accomplishment. This view is from a near corner of the kitchen toward the dining room, with the doors closed.
	This photo is taken from the dining room, diagonally opposite from the previous photo.
	In this view I am standing back by the two banks of windows that were installed at the back of the house.
	Same view with the pocket doors open.
	From the dining room looking toward the back of the house.
	On the second floor there is a large cast iron whirl pool tub.  The previous owners had a beam running at 90 degrees to the floor joists in order to carry the weight.  The architect had the same thing in mind.  However the beam would have been attached to the window header at one end and to a closet header at the other.  We decided that it would be stronger if we just sistered the existing joists, as shown here.  Also, less of the ceiling would have to be dropped to accommodate everything related to that tub.   This was the last rough framing task.