This is the plan for the upper floors.
We bought our house a little over a year ago with the plan to fix it up. Eben and I spent many hours discussing what we thought would be fun to do with the house. He is good on the computer with AutoCAD, a drafting program, so we began to draw things out. We had to revise our original plan and scale things back a bit after we talked with an engineer. It would have required too much reinforcement of the exsiting structure. So, the plans began to really take shape. Eben spent countless hours on the computer putting our ideas into plans and then we sent them off to the engineer.
We are adding a 2 car garage with an upstairs. The upstairs will have a bedroom, bathroom, wetbar (or possibly kitchenette) and a living room area. The garage will connect to the existing house by a mudroom. The existing house will get a dormer upstairs allowing us to put in another bathroom. Then we will bump out the downstairs back wall. This will give us a lot more space in the great room area and the top of the bump out will be a deck for the master bedroom upstairs. We will redo the bathroom downstairs and the kitchen. All the interior walls need to redone, since they are covered in lovely wood paneling! Floors will be redone. We will also have to replace all the windows. We will reside the outside of the house, build a fence, landscape...am I forgetting anything! Are you confused yet?
So, it's a big project. We are adding about 1800 square feet! With Eben (and me) doing most of the work, it will be a long process. So this is just the beginning. At least we have made it this far. It is exciting to actually have broken ground.
We are adding a 2 car garage with an upstairs. The upstairs will have a bedroom, bathroom, wetbar (or possibly kitchenette) and a living room area. The garage will connect to the existing house by a mudroom. The existing house will get a dormer upstairs allowing us to put in another bathroom. Then we will bump out the downstairs back wall. This will give us a lot more space in the great room area and the top of the bump out will be a deck for the master bedroom upstairs. We will redo the bathroom downstairs and the kitchen. All the interior walls need to redone, since they are covered in lovely wood paneling! Floors will be redone. We will also have to replace all the windows. We will reside the outside of the house, build a fence, landscape...am I forgetting anything! Are you confused yet?
So, it's a big project. We are adding about 1800 square feet! With Eben (and me) doing most of the work, it will be a long process. So this is just the beginning. At least we have made it this far. It is exciting to actually have broken ground.
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