One closet down, one to go

Sunday-Monday-Tuesday (June 12-14):

I made a bit of progress over the weekend, framing the header and cripple-blocks over the french doors – and building one of the closets.


This is the view from within the new room, looking toward the old bridge. I cut away the sheetrock on the ceiling corners so that I could tie the cubby-closets into the attic-framing.  I am hoping to get the final framing done next weekend, including the door jambs for the two closets.



Closet framing ties into the attic floor. The yellow block is part of the HVAC plenum chamber. In a few weeks, I will tie a new 8" duct into this system so that the new room has its own AC/heating vent on the ceiling.

The painted areas on the floor are erasures.  I had originally planned to center a 5-foot french door unit on this wall, but I couldn't quite get the closets to fit without excessive customization.  So before I started on this opening for the 4-foot door unit, I spray-painted over my original floor markings in the hopes that I wouldn't get mixed up when drawing the new wall lines.  (Similarly, I still occasionally use Liquid Paper in my job at the L.A. Times when doing thumbnail-bookie shifts!)

BELOW:  This is how it originally looked.