We have heard back from the seller today and he will be meeting with the realtor tomorrow to sign paperwork! He has accepted the offer, but said that he has to let his wife know…. I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I will pretend it’s great news.
We were able to visit the house today and measure the rooms and tentatively decide on a floor plan. Now time to put it on paper and see if it will actually work out just as we are thinking in our heads. For the most part everything in the house is framed, but some of the framing will be changed and finagled a bit. After visiting today I was surprised at the things we had to compromise on in order to get the appropriate spaces into the house that we actually needed. I didn’t get my dance room like I had originally planned, but we can’t all have everything and my children won’t live there forever. But maybe a compromise can be a ballet bar in the family room. Everyone should have one anyway right?
We will have more than enough storage. There are so many nooks and crannies that are filled with shelves and closets, as it stands the house is a great use of space.
We know we will have a few HUGE expenses right off the bat: replacing the roof, HVAC and the large engineered beam that we will need to expand the kitchen. The beam that we currently have is 4 feet short of what we need to open up the entire front living space. We originally had only planned on opening the kitchen and not worry about the front parlor/dining area, but to do that the beam would need a post and that post would need a post under it in the basement and that post would need additional support under the current basement. We weren’t willing to deal with that so to spread one beam from one original outside wall to the next original outside wall is the best option for that space. It will be much more time consuming and will probably save us money in the end of the process. These walls will come down and we will definitely benefit from the wide open parlor/formal dining/kitchen area that we will gain from that expense.
Enjoy the first floor walk-through of this wonderful space. The space that I mentioned that we don’t know what we are doing with it….well, it has been decided that it will be Canessa’s bedroom.