AND THEN

Nothing comes easy. That's all I can say.

Just as we're closing the door on the front of the house, we got a major curveball for the addition.

This was our lay out before:

In redoing the kitchen, we lost that teensy bathroom at the top right. The plan was to add 300 square feet to the "master bedroom" (bottom right), on top of the existing 180 square feet,  for a whopping 480 square feet of living space. This would allow for a nice big master bath and walk in closet and french doors out to the backyard. ***doing a little happy dance***

^  This was to be the revised plan - a bathroom that shared plumbing with the main bath, a walk in closet and then living space with loads of natural light...something like this:

AND THEN...AND THEN...AND THEN
The city intervened. They said the back of the house had to be 25 feet from the retaining wall...that  cut 50 feet from the addition and moved the french doors to the side of the room from the back (and open door counts in the yardage...what sticklers). So we agreed this is what it would be:

I wasn't happy, but I agreed to live with my 50 foot loss and my contractors proceeded, so now my backyard looks like this:

Do you spy my gorgeous kitchen door?? If loving a door is wrong, I don't want to be right.


AND THEN...they started framing - but the framing looked off to me, so I measured it. It was only 200 Feet!! The city came back and made us cut EVEN MORE!!

Let me tell you why this is an issue FIRST my shoes, those babies need room to breathe!!

But seriously, this makes the house less than 1600 sq feet which in our neighborhood, may seriously hurt our resale chances, especially after pouring all this money in to make it a legitimate 3 bedroom 2 bath.

And our contractor completely dropped the ball by not informing me during the plan check stage. They are NEVER supposed to proceed with plans not approved by the client. We definitely would have considered other options once we knew it could only be 200 sq feet additional.

But the hit we would take on a three bedroom one bath, is worse than the loss of square feet.

AND THEN Summer found herself stuck between a one bath with sad closets and a less sad closet and extra bathroom at a potential loss.

This is the truth of remodeling. Welcome to the Jungle.

NO AND THEN.