first (floor) comes first

Now that we’ve started demo I thought should share our plans on how we’re going to put it back together. Like I’ve said multiple times, we’re doubling the size of the house. We’re ripping down the back wall on all three levels and going back another 20(ish) feet. If you check out this picture, the brown cabinet behind Cait on the right is where the future living room will end and the future stairs will be begin:

no, i'm not looking at you. I'm looking at the cabinet behind you!



RC explaining how far the living room is going to come. See the cabinet behind him?



Then we’ll add stairs in the middle of the house so you walk up about 4 stairs, you hit a landing you turn around and then walk about 4 more. You don’t see this much in row homes but I think it gives us more livable area.  In my first house the stairs were on the side and it didn’t give you much room for a table or to walk:

I still love this house

I’m going for this look:

this lady doesn't look happy. I'll be happier with these stairs

When you’re standing at the stairs on the first floor you will have the option to go down to the basement (on the right) or up to the 2^nd floor (on the left). Am I making sense? Maybe? So besides having a stair case in the middle of the house we also really wanted a dining room area next to the kitchen. Just like how the girls and I shoved a table against a wall next to the stairs most people who live in row homes are forced to do the same thing. Since we were in charge of the layout this was something that was really important to us. We sit at the dinner table almost every night to have dinner together and I don’t want that to change when we move. Don’t worry, the TV is usually on… we’re not that crazy but sitting at a table is far beyond our days of eating on the couch when we first met. Point of the story is we added a dining room area. This is what the first floor will look like:

i love paint. <3

We’ll have a deck off the dining room and since we’re on a hill it’s 1 story up! What do you think or the 1^st floor?