House Renovation (and other stuff)

The adventures of a family trying to renovate a 1900's Foursquare

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Planning... Planning

We are trying to make up our minds with this garage thing. We for sure have the dimensions agreed on 30x60 and also know we are going to take down the old garage that is there. We want it to have a craftsman feel to it to fit in with the other old houses in the neighborhood without costing allot of extra money. I submitted my request for a building permit and had to apply for a variance so I suppose the rest lies in the hands of my neighbors if they care or not. Hopefully we get good news in a few weeks that is when the variance hearing is supposed to take place.

Planning..Planning

We are trying to make up our minds with this garage thing. We for sure have the dimensions agreed on 30x60 and also know we are going to take down the old garage that is there. We want it to have a craftsman feel to it to fit in with the other old houses in the neighborhood without costing allot of extra money. I submitted my request for a building permit and had to apply for a variance so I suppose the rest lies in the hands of my neighbors if they care or not. Hopefully we get good news in a few weeks that is when the variance hearing is supposed to take place.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Paperwork

All kinds of paperwork to be done and measuring and figuring for the new garage/workshop next door. I am hoping we can have it all done by this weekend so I can turn it in. We will have to have a variance hearing because we want to build larger than the 900 sq. ft allowed. Should be interesting. I don't think any of the neighbors will care but then if I say that who knows............

Monday, January 07, 2008

Oh where has the time gone

I haven't posted for a while. We have had allot going on. We finally have a computer at our house now. So of course that meant redoing a space for the computer. I will post pix of that. Now we are in the process of getting everything ready for as soon as the snow melts we will be breaking ground on a new long awaited garage/shop for Jayd. We are running out of room for him to do his projects. Otherwise nothing else new going on with us or the house.