home and other adventures
Tomorrow morning Ian and I are going to our architect's office for a 3-D walk-through of the house design as we have it so far. This is the farthest we've gotten in the eight or so months that we've been working on the remodel. I love the basic layout and feel really hopeful that this plan might actually become our home.
We bought the house as a fixer-upper ten years ago and super stressful situations have been getting in the way of doing the fixing that needs to be done. And while it's been driving me up the lath-and-plaster walls to live in what I lovingly refer to as "a shithole", I have to admit that having put it off till now will actually work in our favor long term. Getting diagnosed has changed everything, so instead of doing just a plain old remodel we get the opportunity to focus on incorporating disability accessible designs too. It's a lot to think about.
The one...not quite downside so much as but compromise, is that we wanted to keep as much of our back yard as possible but this design goes back far enough that we'll be hitting the maximum lot coverage allowed. We'll still be having twenty or thirty feet of back yard I think, which isn't nothing by any means, but it does change some things. I wanted a rain garden and fruit trees, plus enough room to keep the vegetable garden beds I ignore most of the year. And we can still do a lot back there, even with the restrictions on rain garden placement and all that, but still. Compromise.
Anyway, I'm feeling darn pleased with the whole thing. I'm looking forward to the walk through tomorrow and to getting the quote from our contractor. I'm not looking forward to talking to the bank (eeek! money!) or moving the whole family (including PTSD Hurricane Katrina rescue cat, Yoshi) out while the whole remodel is happening, but hey. We're not there yet. All I'm doing right now is deciding if the images on a computer screen look good enough to get excited about. We'll leave the rest of it for future me to worry about.
We bought the house as a fixer-upper ten years ago and super stressful situations have been getting in the way of doing the fixing that needs to be done. And while it's been driving me up the lath-and-plaster walls to live in what I lovingly refer to as "a shithole", I have to admit that having put it off till now will actually work in our favor long term. Getting diagnosed has changed everything, so instead of doing just a plain old remodel we get the opportunity to focus on incorporating disability accessible designs too. It's a lot to think about.
The one...not quite downside so much as but compromise, is that we wanted to keep as much of our back yard as possible but this design goes back far enough that we'll be hitting the maximum lot coverage allowed. We'll still be having twenty or thirty feet of back yard I think, which isn't nothing by any means, but it does change some things. I wanted a rain garden and fruit trees, plus enough room to keep the vegetable garden beds I ignore most of the year. And we can still do a lot back there, even with the restrictions on rain garden placement and all that, but still. Compromise.
Anyway, I'm feeling darn pleased with the whole thing. I'm looking forward to the walk through tomorrow and to getting the quote from our contractor. I'm not looking forward to talking to the bank (eeek! money!) or moving the whole family (including PTSD Hurricane Katrina rescue cat, Yoshi) out while the whole remodel is happening, but hey. We're not there yet. All I'm doing right now is deciding if the images on a computer screen look good enough to get excited about. We'll leave the rest of it for future me to worry about.