House, Part Deux

Another busy week planning out things with/for the house, and dealing with all the of financial/realty world.  How (cough, cough), exciting.....  It's a necessary evil, of course.

The one thing that we have done is plan out the expected renovations.  And, wow, are we getting excited to get things going!  Here is the layout for the house right now (click on the pictures to make them bigger):

So, as you can see, a large bedroom, big open kitchen/living room.  And, then in the middle is the "bedroom", but with no window, it's not a "bedroom," so it's the office.  And off to the side is the nice big garage that will become the rest of the living space.

So, now, here is the renovations that we are planning (and hoping the bank likes too!).  We are adding a nice, large bathroom with a great corner shower.  Then we are adding a nice size bedroom, and a bit smaller bedroom (but, still quite comfortable!).  As well, we are putting in a front entrance closet, a storage closet, and a linen closet off of the bathroom. Then the next big plan is to rip out the wall separating the kitchen from the extra room, and put in a kitchen island.  That extra room would then become our dining room.  Oh, and we are going to put an entry from the kitchen into the hallway.  It's going to be great!  And both of us are looking forward to going and picking out all the furnishings!  (insert quote from "Old School" here about the Home Depot and big day planned for tomorrow....)

Now, it's just more of the waiting game and negotiating with the banks over everything!  This will be a long two months to wait!!