OK, so we're a little further down the road than just beginning.... but if we're going to get this blog moving, I'd better get started now.
Welcome to our Home Addition Adventure, as we expand our house by two hundred square feet and add a second story of over a thousand square feet, nearly doubling our fourteen hundred square foot home.
We've been talking about this addition for years... even got a re-fi four years ago... then a home-equity loan a year and a half ago... but with the passing of my mom just over two months ago, things began to move more quickly (the realization that either my dad or Lisa's mom would need at some point to live with us was harsh and just the kick in the pants we needed to move forward). The father of a girl in Kyle's junior high school band happens to be an architect and we first met with him just over a month ago (on January 23 to be exact).
We've been meeting with the architect David weekly for the past month, and we've moved beyond the as-built drawings, through sketches, through preliminary discussions of code with the city, to nearly finished design drawings (I'll talk more about this process in the coming weeks to get us caught up).
Last night we met with him to discuss the drawings... the second story is pretty much locked down. Last night we discussed some of the design of the master bedroom closet area and some kitchen tweaks... we're almost there...
Stay tuned as both Lisa and I write about our experiences... hopefully, they'll be painless!
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