June 12 - What a difference 5 days make.

Again, I'll let the pictures do the talking but, as June progresses, we're starting to see the end of phase II. We'll still be a couple more weeks getting it done. The drywall is all up and and will be finished next week. We jumped back into some of Phase I as the electricians came in and put up the outdoor lights and the concrete guys came back and completed the ramp. We could park in the garage now...if we had a driveway. All in good time. Here are some shots taken over the past week or so:

Here's the new garden door leading from the carriage house to the back yard.

Here is the ramp filled with gravel and dirt that is being compacted.

A layer of rebar is placed over the dirt. This will reinforce the concrete after it's poured.

The truck arrives to pour the concrete. That's Jason - our concrete guy - waving. We've spent a lot of time with him over the past few months.

Jason leveling out the concrete. Once it was all in he created a textured design on the surface.

The finished ramp looks great.

This is the carriage house/laundry room with most of the drywall up. It seems dark at the end of the hall but there is a piece of plywood covering the entrance to the rest of the house so that will open up a lot as soon as that is gone. The other side of that plywood is phase III. It sounds ominous.

The inside of our new garden door is on the left. The long, expanse of wall going along the hallway will give us much needed wall space to hang some of our art.

Okay, admittedly, draped in Typar is not a good look for any structure but try to focus on the new concrete at the bottom of the wall. We mimicked the slope of the existing concrete pad to both conceal the seam and to facilitate water run off from the roof.

This is another view of the concrete slab. The opening on the right is the outside entrance to the basement. We had to order a custom door since the opening is a little wider and a little shorter than a typical door. This will actually help us get larger things in the basement if we need to.