For years now, our home addition has been nothing greater than a thought and a dream. Matt and I’ve talked about it as a long-term plan that we’ll do sooner or later, however the discuss by no means appeared to maneuver past that.
Till just lately. Over the past month or so, we’ve actually, significantly been speaking about it and attempting to plan for it. And the rationale we’re lastly getting critical about it’s as a result of, after 9 years of engaged on this home, I’m lastly all the way down to the final two room in our dwelling because it presently stands.
Right here’s how that appears proper now. The pink rooms are completed. (The lavatory earlier than and after put up is coming! I promise!) The white rooms nonetheless have to be completed. The darkish grey rooms will likely be torn down.
So so far as inside rooms go, I’m all the way down to the house gymnasium and my studio, which can embody a small makeover within the studio half bathtub.
As soon as the sunroom and unique (tiny) grasp rest room are torn down, right here’s what we’re wanting so as to add within the orange…
As we’ve talked about it, we’ve provide you with two completely different choices. And to be fairly sincere, I’m undecided which route I’m leaning proper now. I can see execs and cons for each of them.
Choice 1: Construct ASAP.
Our preliminary thought was to construct the addition ASAP, as in, begin getting every part lined up in order that we will begin constructing within the spring or as quickly because the climate permits.
That means, after I’m carried out with the studio, the addition could be carried out to the purpose that I’d take over and begin on the finishes, identical to I did with the toilet. With the toilet, our contractor and his guys did the entire electrical, plumbing, wall constructing/transferring, subfloor, and drywall. Then I took it from there and completed out the room. So I’m pondering that’s how we’d do the addition as effectively.
The plain “professional” with this feature is that the home could be carried out sooner, after which we might sit again and luxuriate in it…all of it…together with a deck within the again yard off of the main bedroom and household room. I can’t await that, as a result of proper now, we don’t use our again yard in any respect since there’s actually nothing again there to make it pleasing.
And the earlier we get it carried out and have all of that additional room (together with the deck out again), the simpler it would make internet hosting family and friends. Proper now, issues really feel a bit of squished when we now have a crowd over. It positive could be good to have the ability to unfold out a bit extra.
However the apparent “con” with this feature is burnout. I’ve been going at this beautiful a lot on my own for 9 years now. I’m positively beginning to decelerate (12-hour work days are not my norm like they as soon as have been), and I don’t really feel burned out at this level. In reality, I really feel very enthusiastic about getting these final two rooms completed. I simply don’t wish to attain the purpose of burnout, as a result of recovering from that may be very troublesome.
Choice 2: Wait till spring 2024.
The pondering behind this feature is that in some unspecified time in the future (hopefully) throughout the first half of subsequent yr, I’ll have the entire rooms in our home (because it presently stands) completed. Completed! The entire rooms will likely be completed for the primary time in 9 years. Will probably be the primary time in our 20 years of marriage that we might reside in a house with the entire inside rooms fully completed.
And a part of me thinks it will be so good to simply be capable to get pleasure from that for a short while earlier than beginning an enormous addition. I’d nonetheless have loads to do. The carport has by no means been fully completed and painted. The stone skirting on the entrance porch must be completed. Plus, the entire entrance porch might stand a little bit of a refresh with some new paint on the ceiling, a recent coat of stain/sealer on the porch, and so forth. And with my studio lastly completed, I might prepare dinner up an infinite variety of initiatives in there to maintain my artistic juices flowing.
So the plan on the whole could be to complete the inside rooms that we presently have in the course of the first half of the yr, then take a breather for the second half of the yr and simply get pleasure from having a completely completed dwelling (on the within) whereas taking good care of some unfinished initiatives outdoors and having fun with my completed studio. After which initially of 2024, we’ll begin on the addition.
The “professional” with this feature is that we’d have a completely completed inside for some time. No enormous inside initiatives inside, no instruments and paint cans unfold about, and a break from sawdust inside the home. That may be fairly a change!
The “con” is that it will take longer to get to our long-term aim. Meaning persevering with to be squished when we now have individuals over. Meaning pushing aside with the ability to get pleasure from our again yard, grill open air, and so forth. And it signifies that we’d be longer in our small bed room, which is beginning to really feel smaller with every passing day. (Regular sized rooms begin to really feel fairly small when coping with mobility for a wheelchair-bound particular person.)
So these are the 2 choices we’re contemplating. Each of them sound good to me, however just one can win out. If I have been pressured to decide proper this minute, I might say I would like the addition constructed ASAP. But when Matt have been to pressured to decide on at the moment, he’d select the second choice to provide me a bit of little bit of a break and a few respiration room earlier than leaping into an addition with each toes.
However on the finish of the day, he’s okay with both choice (his solely concern is me getting burned out), so it actually will come all the way down to what I select. *Sigh*
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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