Master Bedroom: Stitch Facing South

A great illustration of the room's natural light - both South and West. You can see beneath the loose batt insulation that the floor is cut up in two places. When the architects were designing last summer, they needed to look into the floor to see how the second floor structural members were installed. Keep in mind that before the second floor was put in, the only thing up here was the roof for the first floor. The stick framing wasn't anywhere near enough to hold up a second story, so an additional layer of structural joists had to be put down. The first cut (on the right) told us that the main structural beam runs N-S down the center of the room. We had to come back later to find out how wide the beam is, hence the second cut on the left.