The Plans

So here is the basic floor plan, we reserve the right to change the placement of things at any given time. This happens frequently! The top one is where we are living currently, it will become all bedroom and existing bathroom. Our present kitchen will be turned back into a hallway/den and we will open up the stairs to the thrid floor again.

On the first floor (where all the action is) you come in off the street and there will be a foyer, and steps down into the living room (left side) and dining room (right side), we need the steps down in because we have lowered the floor by another foot so that we can have higher ceilings. Our nephew Jason dug it all out by hand in less than a month, carrying all the dirt out by bucket. To quote him "If I ever see a shovel again, I'll hit them over the head with it"

Anyways as you can see, there will be an L shaped living room and bathroom on the left side of the house and dining room and kitchen on the right. The two rectangles in the centre of each half of the house are flues/chimneys that are 4x6' and go right up through the house. They create some wasted space but are likely what is helping hold the house up.