Scary Cabin

For what seems like minor changes to the upstairs structure, the framing took quite a bit of time. Mostly this is because of all the angles involved with tying into the ceiling. Of course we were also tearing out sheetrock and old framing along the way. Until the sheetrock goes up, it’s hard to tell if the plan will work out. Basically, this is what we ended up with.

1) The bathroom/back bedroom wall was bumped out into the bedroom by about 9 inches. This provided enough room on the front wall for a narrow (24”) door. This provides a single common door to the bathroom and removes the two existing doors. The two existing doors opened into the bedrooms, so with those gone, it should make the bedrooms a bit more open. It also should make the bathroom a bit more open as well. With some extra space in the bathroom, we can look into adding some linen storage.

2) The bumped out wall continues past the door opening into the back bedroom, but only extends just above the door. This leaves a triangular shelf above the door and to the right of the door. Below the shelf and to the right of the door will be a built-in bookcase. The bookcase will but into the knee wall. So all told, we lose 9” from the back bedroom, but gain some architectural/storage features.

3) The front bedroom gets a bit of usable wall space with the removal of the bathroom door that opened into the room.

See the pictures of the upstairs / upstairs bath and it might make sense.

There’s still a little bit of demo to do in the front bedroom closet, but once that’s done and all the debris is hauled off, the upstairs should be ready to start rebuilding.

Started on the electrical re-wire at the end of the day. The plan is to replace all the upstairs wiring, outlets, switches, fans and lights with new. So far, two new outlets, a new switch and new outside light are done.