Hole in the wall

Posted by mikel on November 5, 2008 – 4:37 pm

I have been slacking in my blog-duty. But that is no indication of the amount of work that has been going on over the last couple of weeks - no slacking there! I visited the site last week to take some photos and was FLOORED by the changes. Matthew and Will have created new openings all throughout the house. Sunlight is flooding in the house from all sides and you can begin to feel its homeyness. Don’t buy that? Ok, so we’re not quite to “homey”… but we’ve definitely begun to make our way to “cool”.

They created 7 new holes in the walls of the building. The entryway was incredibly stubborn, requiring a torch, two tow straps, a chain, and a three-quarter-ton truck before it was willing to give in to the beautiful opening that you see today. It’s still kind of a sore subject with Matthew. The hole in the office area will become a doorway to the outside, so that Matt and Will don’t have to traipse through my house to get to their workspace. The dining room hole will be a huge window overlooking the backyard. It is the same size as the entryway window and will provide a line of sight through the house from front door to backyard… I’m beginning to pick up on a trend here, GBW… and I like it! The hole in the kitchen will have a staircase to transition from the foyer and dining area above. The kitchen will open up to the living room. The den hole shown is the beginning of that opening, and only hints at the vast nature of the hole to come. The master bathroom will have a large window above the sinks. (It won’t be a floor to ceiling window, though it appears that way now.) I have saved my favorite opening for last… the master bedroom. I’ll admit it’s been difficult to picture the sunlit-room-with-a-view that Matthew described when he showed me the dark and creepy room at the top of the stairs. But as I walked up the stairs this time… everything felt different without that wall closing in the space. The room is bathed in sunlight and has a view of the soon-to-be master garden. Yep, I said garden. Now it may have to be a rock garden since I can’t even keep wheat grass alive, but I will still call it a garden. Will cleared out the entire area behind the master suite and I had no idea how flat and large that space was. The fact that Matthew came home with poison ivy 3 times didn’t encourage me to explore the overgrown yard before now.

Needless to say, we are very excited by the progress. We’re still in the early stages of this project, but it’s beginning to take shape… and FAST. I know I’m getting ahead of myself, (I mean… the tanks are still hanging out in my living room) but I’m tempted to start packing for the move now!