Decisions

In the past two months we've been kicking around what the inside will look like. Its a good feeling to wrap-up the general plans and know that we have considered almost everything. (Thank you Jeff, for your patience.) You only get one chance to make a lot of these decisions.

Lisa and I marked out the house on our lot last weekend using stakes and spray paint. It was difficult to visualize walls and feel the space, but we learned enough to decide...

...TO go for the basement. It will cost us some things (like cement floors and some Benjamins), but overall the basement was a no-brainer. For relatively little cost, we will get 900 more square feet, much needed storage space, a place to add a living room and a fourth bedroom with a bathroom.

... NOT TO subtract four feet off of the foot print. With the added basement cost, we thought about saving money on the finished space. It would have cost us 160 square feet. That made things too tight, particularly downstairs.

... TO only have three finished bedrooms. Our original plans had four. But because of the future guest room in the basement, we will now have three generous bedrooms upstairs.

... NOT TO have the master bedroom at the front of the house. Thanks to the Uhl's (our old friends and new neighbors), we were able to take account of the views off the front and rear of the house. The rear has views of mountains and downtown, and has better morning light. My only regret is that our house will block some of the Uhl's view.

See the next post to view the plans.