Last week was a little more exciting than previous weeks for one simple reason: we now have walls in the new sections of the house. They’re not complete, of couse, and there are gaping holes in the old parts of the structure, but it’s new and novel to be able to walk around in what will become our laundry room and great room and get an actual sense of place and scale.

As you can see in this week’s gallery, the construction crew made substantial progress even between Wednesday afternoon, when Julie and Julia visited the site, and the weekend, when I accompanied them to check things out. After hearing their excited reports mid-week, I had three long days to anticipate seeing where things stood, and the revelation did not disappoint.

Because of Thanksgiving, this has been a short week, so it will be interesting to see how much has changed when we drop by over the weekend. It seems unlikely that there will be dramatic changes on the scale we saw last week, but it still feels exhilirating to see things moving ahead in such a tangible way.

Gallery: Week 9: Walls

Credits: Julia Neva Wong contributed many of these photos.