The Plan

The previous home owners are an older couple (in their 90's from what I hear). They did a great job of maintaining and caring for the house, but the esthetics and layout haven't changed in a while. Needless to say, most of what we will be doing is bringing the house out of its time warp. With the help of our architect, and very good friend Mike, we have started to put together our plan. The house is currently laid out something like this:

As it sits right now, the house has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths all on the main floor.  The plan for the main floor layout is looking something like this:

The highlights of the plan include:

• open floor plan
• large kitchen island
• moving the stairs
• creating a master suite from 2 of the main floor bedrooms
• adding 2 bedrooms and bath in the basement (we are working on the basement layout and promise to post that later)

We'll be doing all of this in 5ish phases and hope we can have this done in years as opposed to decades.  The plan for the phases is:

• Phase 1: remove wall paper & carpet, paint, clean, upgrade & bury electrical, brace & epoxy seal basement walls, and move in (yep, we are going to live in the house while we do the rest)
• Phase 2 (right side of main floor): move stairs, open walls, add french doors, new front door, build mudroom/pantry, raise ceiling (not quite sure on this one, but it's on the list), and remodel kitchen
• Phase 3 (left side of main floor): create master suite and remodel hall bath
• Phase 4: finish out basement
• Phase 5: landscaping and anything else outside that we decide on