But, still...room for a few fruit trees?
Yes still room for fruit trees! We just need to plant them ourselves and wait for them to grow. Sadly that is pretty far down on the list of updates we want to make to our new home. The list is insanely long despite the house being totally move in ready and in great condition. I guess we are a high maintenance family.
#1 is taking out the section of fence that is shorter (4ft ) and replacing it with taller fence.
#2 is building a cover/roof for the back deck so we can make that our outdoor dining area
#3 is adding a sliding barn door at the bottom of the stairs inside the house so we can keep the downstairs as our private master suite and also barricade dogs easily to one level of the house at a time.
#4 is finishing the inside of the shed (insulation, spackling, nice flooring) so that it can be my at home gym/art studio
#5 is installing a wood burning stove upstairs (since they had to remove the one that came with the home due to it not being epa compliant).
#6 is putting together Seans extremely large shed in the backyard which will be his temporary vehicle storage until we have the money to build a real shop for him.
#7 is updating the entire fencing to make it more private (currently it is chain link which I don't like). I have been looking into more affordable options and I think we are going to add wood inserts to the fencing. You can basically screw/clamp them to the chain link and then it looks just like a real wood fence.
#8 is adding a gate at the end of the driveway to add more privacy and security to the home overall.
#9 is adding medicine cabinets to the bathrooms. Right now there is a pretty mirror in each bathroom. But, no medicine cabinet. How does anyone live without a medicine cabinet? Where do they put all their stuff?
#10 replace the shower curtain in the bottom bathroom with a glass door
#11 add a footbath on the back porch for the dogs
#12 add a door from the laundry room to the yard.
#13 add a hand wash sink in the laundry room
#14 add a footbath / dog wash area in the laundry room
#15 change the door out of our master room in the bottom floor to a french door
#16 open up the area outside our backdoor from the master room to allow a pass through directly to the hot tub.
#17 extend the upper deck to reach to the upstairs back bedroom which will be my office
#18 add french doors to the new deck area outside the office (once deck area is built)
#19 enclose the deck area in back as much as financially possible (screens at the least, true sunroom at the most).
#20 make small mudroom space at front door (hooks, bench, shoe storage, etc).
#21 open up stairs by front door to make shoe drawers under each of the lower stairs (saw this on pinterest so cool)
#22 start an herb and veggie garden (fenced in from dogs)
#23 plant fruit trees
Big Projects
1. Build a shop for Sean (3 car)
2. Extend the second story to continue over the garage (likely will involve reinforcing the foundation under the garage)
3. added space over the garage will include a bedroom, extended kitchen area and bathroom.
We have quite a lot on our plate as you can see. We are definitely high maintenance.
