Rock walls

Now that the trencher, the last heavy vehicle that needs to get behind the house, is finished and gone, we can start getting the east-side hill they way we want it to stay. Sandy got a shot of me moving a large rock for the retaining wall. There are lots of rocks on the property much, much larger than this one.


The wall should look lots better when we get some plants started on it. The rocks on the right are steps to get onto the hill. The wall will be about eight feet longer.

More progress

All of the interior doors are now in place. Here's a look at two of them through a framed wall in the second bedroom. The left one is in the third bedroom. They both lead to the half bath.


And I finally have electricity where it should be: at the breaker box in the utility room.


Here's the meter box awaiting it's hookup by the power company. They came the next day.


The nearly level area behind the house is a result of hours of work by Sandy after the power line was buried.

Before the contractor filled in the trench I was able to drop in another drainage line to take runoff down the hill to the east toward the driveway.

Letting in the light

Above the master bedroom and the bathroom walls on the hallway we are installing windows so light from the clerestory windows can brighten them too. There's not a lot to see yet since the windows haven't been stained or painted, but here are two pictures.

The first is showing one window's wall being framed. It will go in the top part of the bedroom wall.


And here's a look at the bedroom walls from inside the bedroom. The two sliding doors on the right are to the left side of the closet. The pocket door looks into the hallway.