I have great news! For once, I can prove I am not a total moron. Mostly moron, yes. But every so often I swat one out of the park.
A couple day ago, I contacted
an architect to see about help with the design of a whatchacallit—as the reader,
you are welcome to choose between sunroom or attached greenhouse. I will be attaching the sunroom (my choice of
words) on the south elevation of my house with access from the living room.
This is not a new idea. I wanted to build the sunroom when I first
constructed my home in 1991. We didn’t
have the money reserves available for the extra room at the time.
“Tell you what,” I said to my
wife, “I’ll frame in a door for future use.
Someday, we will build the sunroom.”
Some thirty years later, that
day has arrived.
Before meeting with the
architect, I wanted to locate the door I framed in and then finished over. Fortunately, I and a group of my most
excellent friends, built the house over the summer of 1991. This allowed me to document every step of the
project. Yesterday, I located a photograph, taken in June of 1991, of the wall
in which I framed the door. This gave me a rough idea of where to find the
door.
Next step: grab my Zircon stud
finder. Since I presently live with only
my cat, I was forced to deliver the obligatory joke to him. “We gotta be careful not to direct this stud
finder toward us when it’s on—it will likely explode sensing a couple studs
like us.” Satisfied with that maneuver, I used the device to locate the studs and framing around the door. I stuck a couple strips of masking tape on
the wall and penciled exact locations for the studs and door opening
The door opening is there. Proof I am not a moron. Or at least a step in that general direction.
Framed Wall
Tape on the Wall Today
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