After taking a trip into downtown Olongapo City this morning, I spent the day watching the construction crew pulling the forms down from the skeleton of my new house. They still have the ground level slab to pour, which should happen either tomorrow or the next day. After they clean up the wood piles and assorted junk, a new crew will be taking over to do the outer walls. There will be several different crews before it's all finished. Did I mention the entire frame of this building is cement? Lots of metal and cement. Concrete hollow blocks will be used as the outer walls, followed by cement finishing. I'm not exactly sure how they're doing the frame walls on the inside because the electrical outlets will be built into the walls. I do know that the internal walls (for the bedrooms and such) will be gypsum drywall. Much easier to work with than any kind of plywood or cement. In contrast, the internal walls of the house I'm staying in are made of cement. Any modifications will require a ton of work, if they ever decide to do that.

I walked around on the second floor, to see how much space for bedrooms there would actually be. The master bedroom isn't as big as my previous house, but it'll do. I had enough space in my old room to have two computer desks next to each other in opposite sides of a corner, one wide and one narrow. There was an archway that led into the bathroom area with dual sinks built into the vanity (with a medicine cabinet on each of the left and right side walls) and then a doorway to left to the bath and toilet. Our new master bedroom will not be as large and there'll be a single doorway that leads to a single sink, toilet and shower (no bathtub). That's okay, though, because I never once used the bathtub in the old place. My sons didn't either after they got too tall. I swear those bathtubs were designed for people 5 feet and under. Until the walls go up, however, I really can't tell how big each room will be in comparison to the one I lived in before. I do know for a fact that it will be bigger than the room I'm currently in (which is the so-called master bedroom of this house).

My wife just mentioned to me that the master bedroom will look smaller regardless of the size because our old one had a vaulted ceiling and mirror doors for the closet. This one won't have either of those things.