There comes a time in life, when you're doing your tax return and you come to the line "Interest Income"...and you put in like $25. And then you start to wonder...should we be investing our money more? Does anyone know where to start with this (besides 401k, obv.).
There also comes a time in life where you start to envy other people's homes. That's when you know you are seriously an a-dult. Today I checked out the Parade of Homes Remodeler's Showcase and my imagination started running wild. Here's the latest: knock out a bunch of walls, move the kitchen into the bedroom space - creating a seamless flow between the livingroom and kichen AND creating a (small) dining room. Next, we'll build on about 8 ft to the back of the house, expand the small bedroom into the addition creating a master suite. Knock out the side entrance and move it back to create an ACTUAL entryway. One more room would complete the addition and then you'd pop out the roof upstairs to that there'd be a full, comfortable room up there and a den (and a bathroom).
I've probably lost your interest by now. To say the least, this won't happen - unless we want to double our mortgage, which we don't.
In other news, my bracket is shot and it's Sunday, which makes me depressed. At least we all got to enjoy some nice weather this weekend. Alas, I shouldn't complain. It was a pretty fulfilling weekend:)
Maybe I'll have something more interesting to talk about next time...
Better thought. Do what you can with the current skeleton (your kitchen is better than ours)I wanted to add a dormer onto the house...too expensive.
ReplyDeleteI'd say your place is pretty good right now. Aside from one more bathroom, you could really do a lot of stuff on your own for pretty cheap to update the 1/2 story. Words of advice- stay away from overdoing it! Unless you can do it for cheap (or on your own) save that money for a move into a bigger house once you have kids to worry about. It adds up REALLY fast.