Almost seven years ago, when we committed to buying our home we hemmed and hawed over adding a third bedroom to the mix. We eventually decided to decline, and I’m glad we did that at the time. It was the day we took possession of our new-construction-cookie-cutter home that we found out we could, in fact, add a third bedroom in the future (right over our living room for those that have been in our home) and we’ve always kept that in the back of our minds since then.
As the housing market tanked and our list of custom-options we desired for our next, and hopefully, final home grew we realized that we would like to stay in our current home for as long as possible before trying to sell (or rent) it out and build our dream house. More time in our current house allows us to do a few things-
1. build more equity (especially since we just refinanced to a kick-debt-in-the-butt 15 year mortgage!)
2. save more $ for our dream home
3. really fine-tune the options we do want in our eventual custom built dream home (on lots of land!).
After considering all of these options and our need for more space in our home, we realized that the third bedroom addition is really the way to go for us. So we initiated contact with a general contractor we know and he was all in! Nathan pulled the permit yesterday and hopefully construction will get started within the next two weeks!
I will admit, I am kind of nervous about having our house torn apart for, possibly, months on end. However, I know the end result will be worth it!!!
And big win for me too, because there’s no funk today! Nothing but the smell of nothing- which is exactly what I want my water to smell like!