Progress...

As the snow melts in unseasonably warm weather, the dry wall installation progresses. Here is my studio with a propane burner...which had to be turned of it was so warm. 

Yesterday, the basement received a steel mesh before the concrete is poured on Monday.
We've chosen the wall and ceiling color to be a neutral but distinguished buff-white.
Outside the cottage, the pond ice is melting into a sheeny, green-white mist, but later next week the temperatures are set to fall. 
Nicholas

Wow...I haven't been able to go to the house for a week...and the difference is staggering. I am so excited!

As Nicholas said, the basement has been prepped for the concrete floor to be poured on Monday, they placed this grid across the entire surface, after which it will be polished.

This is the view from where the top step will be (the staircase will be delivered once the cement has cured). And this is where we will create a gallery space for  Nicholas' artworks, that may also double as a place for me to lead workshops/have readings, etc...

As the walls began to go up, I worried that the space would feel closed in, constricted, that in losing the view of the rafters and beams, I would lose the sense of flow in the house. But this has not happened at all. What I am finding is all the nuance, the little corners, the places where the light and shadow are already dancing. 

This photograph, taken at 9am this morning from the entry hall, shows me just how much light we will have, even on the northern side of the house. The 1st entryway on the left is the staircase to the studio, library/office, and Master Bedroom and bath. The 2nd door will lead to the powder room. The large square directly in front of the camera's view is the framing for what will be double, glass, French doors, which will pocket into the walls. 

And then, directly through those is the living room, with the kitchen/dining room on the left, and the sunroom one step below that.

The flow is easy and gracious, we are seeing things we created in our mind's eye become form, and we are daily reminded of the great blessings we know on this earth and make a conscious decision to be generous and loving and share this abundance as fully, and as often as we are able.

Judy