Space! Glorious Space!

Space, glorious space, it's wonderful to have it! Huge rooms and wood heat! No more frozen feet! Lol. (Sung to the tune of Food, glorious food off one of the Ice Age movies, my kids could tell you which one. Ask your kids I bet they know too! ) 

Actually our feet are still cold but the skirting will help with that. Anyway...

Pictures of the new space, we are officially living in all of our house that we planned on for the winter. Behind the bales on the top floor, in the picture below, there is more upstairs but we are using it as bale storage and therefor have sealed it off from this side. We still have the upstairs bale wall, the wall by the woodstove and the hallway wall to build with bales. The rest of the inside walls will be 2x4 walls.

This picture was taken with my back to the straw bale wall at the front of the house so this is the total new space that I can fit in one picture.

I took a picture from the back wall too..

The light is bad in this one. There is very little wiring done so far so that's the only light there is back here. The furniture is all in the middle because we need to paint the floor yet. We are also installing two fans in the ceiling and a huge light thingy, and putting plastic on all the straw bale walls before winter, hopfully in the next day or so. 

Here is a better picture of the back space. Back door, two windows (one for each bedroom that will be here). The second story is above this. 

This next pic is the front where the entrance meets the living room and you can see where the second story ends. There will be stairs off this end of it. The stairs will start about where the Orange chair is and the landing for the stairs will be about where the ladder is. 

Here is another view. You can see where the living room meets the kitchen/pantry and where the hallway will be. (The line of doors on the straw bale stuccoed wall) 

Looking at the inside doors that are finally inside doors :) The door closest to the back door is what is now the kids room, and the other is the main bathroom door. 

Here is another view. Looking from the living room to the kitchen. This is all open space and will remain that way :) That pole is the only Un-enclosed pole in the whole place. We think we will build a kitchen island around it eventually. 

So this picture is looking from the new space to the entrance, yes that is laundry hanging everywhere! So nice to be able to hang laundry again! This will be a wall later but we took it down for the winter, better air flow, no plastic or straw too close to the woodstove. 

Oh and a BIG thank you to my mom for coming over and making bread with the kids and helping tear down the straw bale wall! And to Mr & Mrs B who helped Papa and I a ton last night. Moving furniture, sweeping floors, insulating, and eating BBQ chicken and shrimp and some of Grandma's awesome bread!