This used to be our attic bedroom. Now another floor is above it, destined to be a future apartment. This area will serve as a stairwell to the upper floor, a hallway and a laundry room. Behind it you can see light coming in from our in-house greenhouse(remember Dad's in-house greenhouse? Gives me dejavou.) Which will become another efficiency apartment in the next construction phase.
This is our current attic bedroom...
...complete with a temporary half-bath (no door on the bathroom!)
This will eventually be built out further and become 2 bedrooms with a full bath off the hallway.
This is the future master bedroom (Ah! To sleep! Perchance to dream!). What the picture doesn't show is a full master bath and walk-in closet. The double doors in the picture lead to a balcony that is enclosed by an Atrium on the south side of the house. To the left of what the picture shows is a sitting area complete with fireplace. This area could also double as a nursery if our dreams of growing our family come true. All of this seems ultra-decadent and a little outside of my imagination(never had a walk-in closet--heck, for the past two years I didn't even have a closet!)
When he lived in Connecticut, John used to restore old buildings. He's really good at it. The upshot is that I'll probably always have to live with some kind of building in progress. At least he isn't doing it for everyone else instead of us. He keeps our home top of his priority list.
Here are a few photos of the bigger picture of the construction.
Our house in a Winter Wonderland. I took this last winter when we had record snowfalls(40 feet). The area under plastic is the Atrium and will eventually be glassed in. John's dream is to have full grown fruit trees inside of it and my dream is to have that be the entryway to my music studio. The main purpose will be for the Atrium to be a passive solar heat storage facility(it's south facing) to aid in heating the house. The style of the house is decidedly East Coast mansard. We decided on the roof style when we went to visit Grandpa and Grandma Fielding in Connecticut for Thanksgiving. The original house underneath is cinderblock Depression cottage. John bought the property for it's South facing slope, great views,and relatively large property size for downtown Steamboat. It also didn't hurt to have a large amount of adjacent water rights property which belongs to the City of Steamboat. John has been maintaining that property for the city as well, planting trees and garden sculptures on it.
This is a better view of the entire property. Note the play tower with 3 feet of snow on top. John got up there and shovelled it off soon after this picture was taken. He was afraid the roof would collapse if he didn't. Someone in our neighborhood lost their garage and seriously damaged their car because the snowload was too much for the roof. In the foreground is our garden area with a dozen chickens and a goat. Can't see the animals? They are either inside the small greenhouse or the large greenhouse. They rarely came outside this past winter due to the amount of snowfall. We built a tunnel directly from one greenhouse to the other for them. They roosted in one and foraged in the other.
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I can see so much potential in that house. What a beautiful building!
I think so too. I can't wait til it's done, though it might be the equivalent of waiting for the Second Coming, always near yet somehow always in the future.
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