Why we'd never do open concept...

P1000160, originally uploaded by davethetemp.

This is a view standing in the living room looking to the back of the house. The ladder on the ground is where the stairs used to be. They had to go (just too crooked) and the railing I had hoped would stay is looking pretty doubtful. Having no interior walls makes a 16 foot wide house look very, very, small. Kind of like a shotgun shack.

That's a new subfloor there. It turns out that you could fall through the old one in a couple of places. As you can see, the unexpected is starting to drive up the costs.