Demo continues at the lakehouse with Larry supervising the efforts. Our GC, Bill, has a wonderful family crew doing all the excavating, jackhammering and stripping; inside and out. Dennis, his wife, son, brother and father are handling all the work with expert care, and "Mr. Larry" is on hand in his self-made "man cave" to answer whatever questions arise.
All the bedrooms have now been stripped of walls down to the framing, and the ceilings reveal trusses for support: a surprising find given these are flat roofs. Another snake skin was found in the ceiling above our bedroom. Argh! The living room and kitchen have also been stripped and all the windows and interior doors removed. The house doesn't even look like itself anymore. One thing Larry and I realized, is how big the living room window holes are! If only we could afford a large pane of glass for those holes. What a gorgeous, unobstructed view we would have. But, we can't afford that, so double units of single-hung windows will go in instead. So be it. The view will still be magnificent.
We decided to move some walls around. Dennis asked the question, and echoed what I had begun to think about but did not yet voice. Larry drew up a design, and our final decision is to make the master bedroom a little bigger and the back guest bedroom a little smaller. The smallest guest bedroom door will be moved to make the room more efficient for use of space. There will be more flexibility for where to place the double bed, and the room will not feel so crowded.
Yesterday, Dennis's father, jack-hammered the boat ramp out of the living room and will be the mason replacing it with a level broken-tile mosaic floor. Hopefully, we chose a color tile that will closely match the existing tile.
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