All Trussed Up

We did it! We are done framing the ceiling. There are more cross-braces we'd like to put in, actually, but we won't do those until after the ceiling and insulation are in. We are VERY happy and excited that our ceiling is framed. We also put in the scissor-truss-like supports, and they seem really solid. Hopefully our roof won't come down on us anytime soon, but even if it does, it will come down a little less quickly than it did before.

Here's me nailing something:

The view looking down into the living/dining room:


And our new roof supports:

I think the most exciting part of the weekend, though, was when we bought the heaters for the living/dining room. We looked at a lot of the convection heaters, which we liked and preferred, since we're not going to go with central heating, but they just needed too much surface area. So, we ended up getting the in-wall electric heaters with the fans. They come with a 5-year warranty, which is about 3 years more than most places, so that makes us feel better, too. I can't wait until those are in.

We also finished off our electrical plan for that room, more or less, and now just need to measure how much wire we need. We also need to go buy the lights that go above the dining room table, so we can wire for all this stuff. That will be fun. While we're out, we'll shop for a fireplace and hopefully get some ideas of what we want it to look like with the mantel and whatnot. We'll see - we're getting to the fun stuff, in my opininon. For some reason I'm really excited to do the floors in our house. It seems like just the sort of picky, boring, repetitive task that I really like.

This weekend we're supposed to have some nice weather (read: not too terribly cold, and probably not raining), so we'll probably forgo the wiring in favor of replacing the window in the east wall of the nook and residing that side of the house. The poor rat hole will look like Frankenstein's monster with all its different types of siding, but that's okay. It looks like that anyway.