Buchanan St Dormer Addition

This story is starts with a little closet in a 1.5 storey home that wished it was a beautiful master bathroom.

As a closet at the top of the stairs, it was useful, but we saw so much more possibility for this space.

So we tore down the exterior wall (and ceiling) to add an additional 6 feet of length to the space, taking out the knee wall and building full height walls over the floor joists sitting on exterior walls.

And it wasn't big enough for us, so we took out a few feet of the master bedroom, too.

Here's a view from the master bedroom - the closet you see is going to be the main part of the dormer, plus the extra few feet exposed by this temporary "skylight."

Here we are outside removing the roof and roof supports.

And now here is the framework for the dormer which will give us more more space to the room.

View from the street, at night.

Here the dormer walls have been built up and layered with house-wrap, and the roof is in place.

Here's the final view of the new dormer, complete with siding and roofing, and a new window.

And here's a view from inside, framed and ready to be completed... Interior work to come in the next posting!