Construction has started

The construction crew is here working on enclosing the den.

As many of you know, a former owner of our house had turned the one-car garage into a den. They did it cheaply, by putting in a sliding-glass door where the garage door used to be. While it was a cheap fix, it was not a good one.

Thanks to poor workmanship, there was a lip on the old driveway that caught rainwater and funneled it underneath the door. Also, they never ran ductwork to the newly-created den. With a big glass door on one end of the room, that meant it would be in the upper 50s out there in the winter and the upper 80s in the summer.

But now, a crew is here installing a couple of big, energy-efficient windows and building a wall to replace the sliding-glass door.

While I'm psyched about getting this done, I wish the weather would cooperate. It's freezing outside, which means a whole bunch of cold air is rushing into the house through the folding door that separates the den from the rest of the house. I'm wearing a tee shirt, sweatshirt and fleece pullover (Yes, the Patagonia one I wrote about last month).

Anyway, before and after photos will be coming soon ... unless I get frostbite.