Rafters and a Second Floor

Jimmy is a visual guy. He always has pictures in his head. (This is a little strange to me because I am more of an audio person who always has songs -never pictures- in their head, which of course is strange to him.) Anyways, Jimmy has been dreaming of this cabin with a picture of it in his brain for many years. The picture in his brain has always been of a cabin with a barn style roof and loft. The original plan was to have a loft covering the back end of the cabin with everything else open. However, being the practical dream spoiler that I am, when I saw how large the "loft" was going to be and how much empty space it left over the rest of the cabin I wondered aloud how difficult it would be to just build a second floor and turn lots of pretty, but wasted space into something useable. My wondering quickly turned into the end of Jimmy's dream of a cool loft and the pretty picture in his head. (It is really tough to be a dreamer with a practical wife.) In order to construct the second floor we added crossbeams to the other half of the cabin before putting on all of the rafters. It was really fun to watch the cabin develop through this stage. It was especially fun to look out at the great view of the sky and lake through the open rafters on the second floor.