So not too much has really happened this week. The home inspection went fine, the purchase and sale has been drafted, and reviewed, soon to be signed, the check for the additional deposit has been written, and I’m sitting here waiting to get moving with the property. So what better to do than….. BUG MY CONTRACTOR!!!!
I’m sure I’ve already done that enough. He’s already informed me that I can’t add another three floors or turn it into 6 units thanks to things called “zoning laws.” But I was figuring that there’s probably enough space to add a half bath in there (take that zoning laws!). So I made a rough sketch of what the layout is now, and what I’d like for it to look like and sent it to him. I figured I’d share my architectural talents with my readers as well (note: I have zero architectural talents).
So the top is as it is now (minus the interior front porches). So ideally I’d like to open up the kitchen (with breakfast bar), living room, and dining room,and do away with that middle hallway and the pantry.
*When we were in the basement the supports were clearly underneath the wall to the left side of the dining room, that’s usually a pretty good indicator that the wall is load bearing, that wall’s not going anywhere.
So if we can take away the hallway and the pantry, I can turn the smaller bedroom into the bigger bedroom, make the full bath a little wider and connect the two bedrooms, and hopefully fit a half bath off the dining room. My theory is that since we’re already budgeted to redo all the plumbing anyway, as long as we can back it up to the other bath (so the plumbing is all in line) how much more could it actually cost to add a half bath? Right now I’m assuming that the answer is more tiles, another vanity, another toilet, a little more electrical, and a little more drywall… and another door.. crap, and I need three of everything.
Oh well, if he says we can’t do it, I think I’m going to ask him to dig a moat around the house… you don’t really see people using moats anymore….
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August 28th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
[...] Jon Ernest of Spotlight Realty’s Real Estate Blog presents Cambridge Condo Conversion Chronicle Part 3 in which he recounts the day the inspector and the contractor came over to take a look around. [...]