House Remodel - End of Weeks 6 and 7

I grouped last week and the week before together because a lot of the things they were working on ran over the course of 2 weeks. Here are some of the things that have been going on.

The 2 downstairs bedrooms had small windows that were up high - on ground level. The times have changed and now you have to have 9 cubic feet outside a window and only be 4 feet off the floor to pass inspection as a "bedroom" for egress purposes. So we had to get larger windows for the 2 bedrooms downstairs and they dug window wells. One more thing we've encountered that we didn't plan on. (Which equals more time and more money)
The new french doors that will lead to the back deck.

The boys shower is in downstairs in the new bathroom.

One of the boys' bedroom downstairs. New window. We also ended up taking about 95% of the house down to the frame, which we didn't anticipate having to do.

We had to have the entire house re-wired. Something else we didn't anticipate. Things like the wiring and the support that we had to add, you can't tell those things until you really get in to the walls. Apparently they did things differently back in the days when this house was originally built since they found electrical wires duct taped together and nails thru wires. Again, these changes equal time and money, but we are ok with it since this will be our "forever" house and we definitely don't want any corners cut.

New stairs going up.

This is where the front door used to be, on the 2nd floor. They bumped out the wall to be even with the front of the house and added a window. This will be our "office nook".

View from upstairs looking down into the living room. (new garage is farther back)

Front door is in!! View from inside...

View from outside...

All of the new windows are in (except the large living room window) Also the new metal roof is finished. (it's hard to tell in this pic but the color is charcoal - dark gray) You can also see that little bubble on the roof. We put in 7 tube skylights that will provide some (green!) natural light for us.

Finally the outside of the house is almost finished. There is still quite a bit of brick and stone work to be done, and the back deck. But most major things are finished. I think now it will seem to go a lot faster.