Raising the Roof!

Big news around here, the construction of our roof started this week!  It's been a very, very long week with lots of sawing and nail gunning and dust flying everywhere.  There are so many boards that make up the structure of our roof.  You can see the side by side comparison of our two roofs above, the original cottage on the left and the new roof on the right.  We decided to go with a more modern hip style roof on the new half that is barely visible this close up.  You see it more when you walk up or down our street a few houses away.  Right now the two parts of the house look very different and it has taken me several days to get use to it but once the siding and stucco goes on them with new matching windows, they will tie in quite well together but still maintain the vintage vs. modern side by side smackdown between the two!  In designing the exterior of the house, we actually didn't want it to look like the new addition has always been there, we wanted it a bit obvious that this was the newer, more modern side.  Here are some more pics of the roof, sorry for the quality, we are experiencing San Diego's typical June gloom right now:

The center of the roof.

Looking towards Finn's bathroom

Looking towards the master bath.

The master bedroom.

Our upstairs ceilings will be following the slope of the roof for the most part which will help our little rooms up there feel larger and also add so much visual interest.

This is the skylight opening that is located over the stairway.  This is really going to help add some extra light to the first floor.

These are some of the completed roof rafters with the straight rafter tails we decided on.  I love the modern, lifeguard tower, beach house feel I get from looking at them.  

The second story is now really resembling a treehouse perched in our Avocado tree!