Right about now, the exterior of the house is all coming together….just look at those curves!
It’s truly the moment we’ve been waiting for; seeing both the curved gable over the porch and now the curved roofline over the kitchen addition. Clearly, our architect knew what she was doing!
Here’s how it started:
It’s only an eight-foot addition, but I can already see how even that ‘small’ of an addition will really make a big difference in our house. The extra space will make our kitchen and our laundry room wider. Overall, the laundry room doesn’t really get any bigger; we stole some depth from it for the kitchen, so making it wider helped compensate for that.
There’s a window! (Or rather, a hole for a window.) You can see how the addition doesn’t go all the way to the back of the house. However, that space will get a new metal roof that’s angled in this project Right now it’s a flat shingled roof in rough shape. Plus, that metal roof will look really nice next to the pergola in the backyard…that will get a metal roof eventually.
Here’s a closer view of how they created that curved roof. Setting the curve was a group effort; our contractor, Chris, and our main carpenter, Justin, worked with both of us for more than an hour to get the curve just right. We got creative and ended up using a chain from Chris’s truck to help. They hung it from the top shingled portion of the existing roof over to the lower end, to make sure we got a true curve but also that it didn’t flatten out at the lower end. Then, they traced that onto zip wall (the green board), and used that as a template for the new framing. We were appreciative that they wanted our input and went the extra mile to make sure it was right.
Next: the inside of our house becomes a construction zone!
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