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Anybody know of a site that has this info? I am researching home additions and I'm looking for ideas in our budget. Thanks.
For your reference I am giving you a website link that i have found helpful for you. It will give you lot of authentic information about home improvement and also give home improvement tips. The link is
Addition of top floor and renovation of house
I am looking to do a remodel and possibly a home addition on a home I have lived in the past 10 years. Does anyone know of a reliable business or a way to find a reliable company that is the Raleigh/Cary/Apex, NC area?
http://www.nari.org/level2/homeowners/.. try this site.
I want to add on to my current home in about 5 years, we have a 3 bed 1 bath 1 story home. I would like to add up and out adding a second story with 2 more bedrooms and one more bath. Our house was built in 1955 with crawlspace. Do you think it would cost more to do these renovations than if we where just going to buy a new home. Is the remodel worth it?
It depends on many factors. Location is always the most important. Are you living where you want to live?
The second question is, what will the remodel do to the value of the house? If the value is much higher than neighboring houses, it would not pay to add on.
third question is where would you want to move to? How much you are willing to spend on a new house is a factor.
Figure $100 per square foot as the remodel cost. Two bedrooms, two closets, bath, bath closet, hall, stairs, wall space. Five hundred square feet would be $50,000.
When people "move up" they usually spend $35,000 to $45,000 for a better home. So it would be cheaper to move up.
Further, doing a remodel is a massive headache. You would have to find temporary living arrangements for about six months. And you would have to keep daily tabs on the contractors to make sure they do things right.
If you move up, you only have to find the house you want, buy it, then move in.
I would love to find a site with ideas on additions to the back of the house
Here are links that will give you ideas using actual plans and also software available and just some good ideas. Hope this helps. Good luck with your project!
http://www.splitlevel.net/addition-subtr action.html
http://www.housingzone.com/giants/articl e/CA6474455.html
http://www.mindcapers.com/remodel/
http://ideas.reliableremodeler.com/Artic le.aspx?ID=1125
http://www.northlightarchitects.com/port folio_ar.html
http://hometalk.homedesignersoftware.com /showthread.php?t=5130
all our friends have voiced their desire to come see our home addition. we would love to accomodate them and have considered an "open house" for one saturday for maybe 4-5 hours and just send out invites and let everyone come by anytime during the time period. i would set out snacks and drinks. is this bad taste?
Nope. Sounds like you are going to have some fun and fill your friends desires at the same time. Sounds cool to me.
Community goes to bat for 'the boys'
MACHIAS -- In this small Cattaraugus County town, Dalton and Wyatt Eisenhardt are known simply as "the boys."
Over the years, the rural community has looked out for Dalton, 10, and Wyatt, 8, raising money to help their parents, Vicki and Webb, meet the needs of the two boys battling a rare genetic disorder that causes severe problems breathing and swallowing.
Now, Machias is doing one better.
The community is pitching in to build the Eisenhardts a new home fitted for Dalton and Wyatt.
Plans call for a house with 3,800 square feet, providing room for the brothers to continue therapy and be schooled at home, plus enough storage for their many medical supplies, space for the nurses who provide around-the-clock care and a little privacy for big brother Tyler, 15.
The Eisenhardts are overwhelmed by the gesture -- and humbled.
"I was shocked at first," Vicki Eisenhardt said. "I thought they were kidding."
But this is how it works in small towns, said Dave Wright, who serves on the board of the American Legion post in Machias.
Three New Additions To Cemetery Dance Novella Series | Hellnotes
Invisible Fences (Novella Series #19): Do you see the point of the story, Nathan? We all cut parts of ourselves away, but we never lose them. Things stay with us — souvenirs with memories attached. We can’t always choose what to keep, what to throw away. Nathan’s parents devised cautionary tales for him and his sister — gruesome stories about predatory cars racing along the “Big Street” at one end of their neighborhood, or dope fiends lurking in the woods behind their house and ready to plunge hypodermics into the skin of foolish young trespassers. These stories served their purpose during Nathan’s gullible childhood, essentially constructing an invisible fence around the yard and keeping the boy close to home where he’d be safe. Such barriers are not so easy to discard in later life.
As an adult, Nathan no longer believes his parents’ stories, and yet they still confine him. He lives cautiously, avoiding serious relationships, avoiding risk. But despite his efforts, something from his parents’ cautionary tales threatens to creep beneath that invisible border…and the enclosed yard might not be as safe and secure as it always seemed …
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