The Plan

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The layout of the house is quite functional. The living space is all on one level and has most of what we need, without having space we won’t use. However, there are a couple of things we want to do to make it work better for us.

First, there is no office/study. There is a very large space the previous owner used as his workshop. He was an avid woodworker and sculptor, etc. I'm not, so we'll be dividing the space into two areas. One for a study/office so that I can work from home and the other for a smaller workshop/storage area for projects and tools that can't or don't need to be in the pole barn.

Second, we're going to modify the bedrooms.

  • Bedroom #1 is too small. There will be a small addition on the front to allow for the expansion of this bedroom along with a walk-in closet. It will also be turned into a suite by re-positioning the door into the current owner's suite bathroom. That bathroom is fine and will just get a new vanity.
  • Bedroom #2 will become the walk-in closet for the new owner's suite.
  • Bedroom #3 (the current owner's suite) will get reconfigured to become bedroom #2 with a walk-in closet. The entrance into the current owner's bath will get blocked off and guests will use bathroom #2 across the hall.
  • Bathroom #2 will get remodeled with new tub, toilet, tile, and vanity, but the layout and footprint remain the same.
  • The addition at the back (where the deck is in the previous post) will contain the other parts of the owner's suite (bedroom and bathroom), along with a small hallway leading from the great room out the back and the pool bathroom.
The end result is that it goes from 3 beds/2 baths to 3 beds/4 baths and gets a few hundred square feet larger.


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