We have an upstairs?

Fast work catching up after the evacuation of Downtown Morehead due to some errant forklifting of a container of PETN (yes, that PETN) at he Morehead Port. Some of you may have even seen coverage of Al Jazeera.

Walt and the boys have removed all the temporary walls which has really opened up the downstairs (like the plans, but in 3D). Those pictures are coming. But the biggest part is the stairs. The stairs run up the northwest corner of the old house and up into the old living room/family room. First pic is the first stair tred so they could figure on headroom and location of the landing. The pic shows the window(s) on the east wall (alley side) of the house (I was told to provide a bit more context and orientation in the pictures). (Thanks, Dad, for pointing out the error in the orientation!  Clearly not helpful calling west east.














This next shot shows the old tongue-groove floor of the living room with parts of the old joists removed. Unfortunately, my goal to collect the old timbers has not been very successful. Most of them explode when they hit the floor. . . interior is paper from the termites.




















This is the view from the doorway to the livingroom/TV room. Pardon the dust! Walt is standing on the landing. The stairs will wrap to the left and the final stairs will be at the front window (that used to be behind the couch).



















And from below. The new front entry is immediately to my left. Thanks to the skilled use of a sawsall and skilsaw, we will be able to save all of the heart pine floorboards from the cutout floor. . . good thing since the doorway and half walls to the livingroom will be removed and we'll need to patch in the flooring.