And it begins

Another house project - Whaaaat?  We saw the house and felt there was potential, so here we go again.  Hopefully it'll turn out as well as we hope. But, here is what we're working with for now (prepare yourself - it's not so pretty).

House from the outside, actually not so bad..

Walking in the front door.  Right now you walk into a stone entry, which has a coat closet right in front of it.  We are going to open up this space quite a bit in our new design because it feels very partitioned and closed-off right now.
To the right of this entry is the main living room area, and to the left is a hallway down the entire left side of the house to all the current (3) bedrooms

The living room to the right - there is currently a retro wooden divider, not sure what exactly we'll do here yet.  Oh, and you'll start to notice the house is still full of crap, which in addition to all the gross carpets, will all need to be removed

You can see in the above picture on the left there is a fireplace.  Here is a better view of it.  The built in shelves will be torn out and likely replaced with new ones

On the right hand side of that above picture you see the steps, which currently lead up to the formal dining space.

To the right of the dining space is the kitchen.  It's a nice big space but needs a LOT of updating.  Also, there is the possibility of moving the right wall out about 5 feet, which we are planning to do so that it's large enough for a nice island in the middle. I think this is really going to be a beautiful kitchen when it's done

There is also a really nice eat-in kitchen area (to the left of where I'm standing in the above picture) where I think we'll do a built in bench and table.  Anyone need an xmas tree?

Ok, so in order to understand what rooms are all along the back of the house, this picture below might help.  There is sorta a random room, which I'm standing in in this picture, which connects through to the formal dining room, and in the far end of this picture, you can see into the kitchen.  We think we'll stage the "random room" as an informal office space or play space (for families with young children)

Behind me in the above picture is the hallway which has all the downstairs bedrooms off of it.  This room below is on the back of the house and was formerly the master - it has a walk-in closet and attached bathroom.  It's hard to get a good picture of the room - it's a nice sized room with a TON of windows - this bench window you can see in the picture, and then a whole wall of windows to the right.

"Master" bathroom currently off that room.  There is a shower to the left you can't see in this picture

Off the same hallway all along the left side of the house are two other nice sized bedrooms and a nice sized (but very dated) hallway bathroom

Ok, so that's the whole downstairs - but the real possibilities (we think) are upstairs.  There is currently a space upstairs which is the size of the entire downstairs but completely unfinished.  Our plan is to put a really wonderful master bedroom/bathroom up here, as well as another kids/guest bedroom and a hall bath.

You can see the stairs on the right in this picture, and the space beyond that is where the guest bedroom will go

And on this side is where the master bed/bath will go.  We are going to put a gable on the front of the house (looks like a triangle shaped peak from the outside), which will open up this space a lot and bring in a lot of light.  This will allow us to put a really nice sized master bed/bath and closets up here

I think that's it for now.  We should hear from the builder in a week or two and negotiate pricing and then get started.  Away we go!