Our Side Yesteryear Side Big Project

Exciting changes are coming to our basic ranch trend home!

If yous follow me on Instagram therefore yous may already know that large changes are coming to our pocket-size ranch home!  Changes that I envisioned, planned together with dreamed of doing since the minute nosotros moved into our home.  Changes that I never persuasion would accept 13 years to complete, but life has a funny way of non ever going every bit planned.

In 2014, I shared our stage 1 renovation plans that involved fierce downward our carport together with edifice a kitchen/mudroom add-on together with oversized 2 automobile garage.  It was a major projection to tackle, particularly for my married adult man who did all the excavating, digging, rebar, footer, concrete together with leveling work.  We were thrilled when the add-on was done, but nosotros definitely weren't develop to fountain into some other huge projection anytime soon.

After the addition was complete, I slow turned the kitchen expanse into my office while nosotros saved for stage 2 of the renovation.  During this time, nosotros also took a difficult await at our hereafter together with had to create upward one's hear if nosotros actually wanted this dwelling trouble solid to survive our forever home.   Ultimately, the determination came downward to spending the coin on the kitchen together with first-floor renovation or putting the coin towards a downpayment on some other home.  

We create got ever dreamed of owning a dwelling trouble solid amongst to a greater extent than belongings together with privacy but making the jump never felt right.   We dearest our home, nosotros are comfortable inwards our dwelling trouble solid together with our dwelling trouble solid is everything nosotros need.  Sure to a greater extent than infinite together with province would survive nice, but nosotros absolutely did non bespeak to a greater extent than of either to survive happy.  What makes us happy is living inside three miles of both our parents, my blood brother together with my aunt together with uncle.  Moving would accept us farther away from trouble solid unit of measurement together with that was non something nosotros were willing to sacrifice.   Our dwelling trouble solid is small, our bills are pocket-size together with nosotros are able to piece of occupation towards longer-term fiscal goals that are far to a greater extent than of import than having a larger home.

Owning a smaller dwelling trouble solid frees upward our finances together with allows us to travel, create meaningful memories every bit a trouble solid unit of measurement together with splurge a piffling on our electrical flow home, similar major renovations.

So, afterward thirteen years of living inwards our home, nosotros are in conclusion refinishing the hardwood floors on our entire start flooring together with renovating together with expanding our kitchen.  We'll also survive removing some of the dining room, living room together with kitchen walls to create an opened upward flooring plan.  

Unfortunately, the basement stairs separate our kitchen together with living room together with run straight downward the oculus of our home.  Moving them was non an option, which meant nosotros had to piece of occupation amongst the electrical flow flooring invention to create a infinite that was both functional together with aesthetically pleasing.  My start selection kitchen layout wasn't an choice (island running parallel to the sink together with the fridge on the reverse wall), but Amy from Classic Kitchens worked her magic together with created a layout that represent our strange space.  She also position together awesome 3D images, which allowed me to instruct a ameliorate experience of the layout.  

I'm most excited almost replacing our pocket-size kitchen window amongst a novel triple casement window.  It's going to supply therefore much natural low-cal together with actually opened upward up the space.

I went dorsum together with forth on the blueprint of the walls around the stairs, but ultimately, decided to practise a combination of drywall together with modern horizontal railings.  The drywall knee articulation wall volition human face upward the kitchen together with horizontal railings volition wrap around the balance of the stairs.   I'm actually trying to comprehend the stairs together with promise this combination volition create a await that fits my trend together with incorporates the opened upward staircase without having it experience out of place.

You tin instruct a ameliorate persuasion inwards the color renderings, but the finishes inwards the images are non precisely what I create got chosen. 

I'm even therefore deciding on countertops, lighting, pigment together with flooring colors, a arrive at hood blueprint together with accessories similar stools together with shelving, but the cabinets create got already been finalized together with ordered.  This way we're chop-chop moving toward starting the renovation together with moving our entire start flooring into our garage.  I'm non looking forrad to packing upward together with moving out most of our home, but I am looking forrad to getting these renovations started.  I invention to portion the entire renovation procedure amongst yous together with promise you'll follow along every bit nosotros pack up, tear apart together with rebuild a infinite that ameliorate fits our family.

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