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It is pretty strange when you look out across a huge expanse of a floor and think how much space there is! However, once all the walls go in your selections for room, closet, and hallway sizes become noticeable. This must be one of the major source of change orders for building homes as up until the walls go in one really has no concept of just how big (or small) everything is. This project was no different. Several changes were required to make better use of space (mostly in the closet areas).

Here most of the walls have been set. Note this is an older photo as the ramp has not yet been installed. Many of the walls set by a hired contractor had to be changed as some were measured wrong -- others were changed due to "suggestions" from family members to create more usable space.

Your looking east, having turned the corner of the stairs on the second floor. Front and center is the shower base for the master bathroom.

Also completed during this phase was the rework of the back entrance which was as pictured from the north. The new back entry will be from the west and will make trips to the hot tub in the dead of winter much easier.

Reworking the plumbing also caused some pain for the downstairs of the house. Here you can see a couple pipes coming down from upstairs. This whole wall was exposed and needed to be recovered with tung-n-grove wood as it was previously.

A new furnace was installed on the third floor and then ductwork was run across the ceiling of the second floor. This installation was mostly custom as the bonus trusses did not come with cutouts for utilities.

I guess had we done this remodeling a year later we would have benefited from having room-n-attic trusses with cutouts for utilities -- this would have saved us money on installing the furnace and plumbing.

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