Last fall we entertained the idea of adding onto the house. We currently have 3 bdrms 2 baths upstairs which includes the master and master bath. We do have a bedroom downstairs but it is so far away from us upstairs that I refuse to use it for the kids plus it was "supposed" to be my craft/guest room but we have our friend Ange living with us so it is hers. So that means that we have our 5 children crammed into 2 bdrms and sharing 1 bath, which means of course that they are always using our bathroom too. I talked to my dad about it and he immediately started drawing up rough plans for it. He had 3 ideas, one to just enlarge the existing two bedrooms, basically doubling their size or enlarge one, add one plus bath making 3 bdrms and 2 baths, or adding 2 more rooms and hallway making it 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. That was the one we decided on so we cleaned up the drawings and started talking to a contractor friend of ours.
But then we had to put everything on hold when Eric was laid off and our future here was uncertain. But with the new year and new job came the renewal of our plans. And so after a lot of work and going back and forth with the architect and engineers, the plans were submitted for permits last week and we received them yesterday.
Our wedding anniversary is also today, it was a wonderful present to be starting this today...after all the waiting.
DAY 1 ~ We have holes!
So here is a picture of the back side of the house where we will be extending about 14 ft. The two upstairs windows are the kids existing 2 bdrms. The added rooms will be supported by columns, creating a covered patio underneath.
Happy Anniversary! And for our present we get the wonderful sounds of a jackhammer out side my back door!
Breaking the concrete to make the holes for the columns.
Besides the use of the concrete cutter/skilsaw and jackhammer, these perfectly square and level
holes where made with only a pickax and shovel
Not quite deep enough but just right for a pint size kid. Boy it's going to be hard to keep the kids from playing with everything. They soooo want to help.
Brendan was NOT happy to be going to school today.
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