2007_10_05 Great room ceiling and close up of low head room area

I stopped by on Friday 10/05/07 to see what was happening before we left to drive to Georgia to see Clay, KC, Charli, and Jasper.

They had started the ceiling over the great room. Below you can see the progress.



The picture below is just to show the low ceiling that will be in both bedrooms as a result of the roof line angling down to the floor level at the back of the house. We decided to have these low head room areas closed off for about 5 feet or so from the end to try to use them for some storage.

I discussed with Steve the different ways of putting access doors in them without having to cut into the rafter by having the doors on the inside facing each other where the dormer window is and also either having the door far enough away from the left side of this picture that it could be square but still miss the rafter or (more likely) have the door be trapezoidal instead of rectangular so that the top edge of the door follows the angle of the rafter but is just under it. He said that he can do that.