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It was so cool to finally get my hands on a copy of the blueprints this week. Makes it seem so official, and it also means I can see all the details we have changed recently and the official measurements. I took a copy over to the subdivision board for their discussion and hopefully approval.
The original plans had the measurements as:
1st floor at 1441 sqft
2nd floor at 632 sqft.
(sorry for the sloppy photo)
In the new plan we lose that porch off the kitchen, which gained us approximately 200 extra feet. It looks like when doing the roof and adding the bay window, we gained some there as well. Upstairs, after making the garage a realistic size for todays vehicles and finding a way to get a decent window in the girls teen suite (the room with a lake view), we ended up with an additional 152 to the upstairs. Our goal was really to make it as small as we could within the subdivision rules, which meant it had to be 2000+ ft. The original house was 2073 ft. and it ended up being 2428. SO, we gave up finishing the bonus room. It will be left in a state that will make it easy to finish later, but that is an additional 200 sqft, that we really don’t need. I am much happier to have put sqft. in the kitchen and the girls teen suite. In four years, there will only be 2 people living in the house … and that upper floor will go virtually unused except visits from the girls and company.
Filed under: Architectural , blueprints, construction, home design, Kitchen, new home, Teen Suite
