Day 1
Today begins the actual physical part of our home remodel. We have been working on plans with an architect since last April. I've gone from extremely elaborate, to finally scaling it down to a reasonable remodel without sacrificing the space I desired. Our permits were submitted last week, and should take another couple of weeks to be approved. In the meantime, the builders are going to change a gas line and waterlines, dig out a walk-out basement area, and tore down our giant pine tree in front of our house. Although I love the tree, it blocked light and access to our house, so it had to go. Anyway, here are the first photos of the trees coming down and the before pictures of the front of the house.
In this first phase we are adding an office space with a fireplace, a walkout basement door, and a basement exercise room and cold storage. Phase two will give us a new, two level deck off the back of our house and french doors from the dining room to the back yard.
I am so excited. Here's to happy remodeling!!
Oh how I wish there was a way to transplant that magnificent tree to my barren yard!!!!! Can't wait to see the work in progress.
ReplyDeleteWe probably could have transplanted the smaller one! Oops! Sorry about that. I had forgotten that we talked about that. It was kind of sad to see that big beautiful tree come down, but it was also exciting to get started on this project. Now our house is a complete disaster and we're committed to that disaster for the next 4 to 5 months. Oh well.
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