Here we go again. Over the last few years we have tackled major renovations: gutting and rebuilding the basement; upstairs included gutting and redesigning an open concept kitchen and living room. Now, with nothing left to spruce up we will add on. An additional 500+ square feet. That means growing our small bungalow by roughly half.

With development permit in hand, we now are waiting for the building permit. Could we only be weeks away from getting a hole in the ground? If additions are anything like renos, time and deadlines are the biggest unknown factors. Hence this blog.

Will everything go according to plan? (there is a plan, right?) If so, I'm sure that will make for some dull reading. If things tend to veer of the rails, as I anticipate they might, this blog may get a bit exciting at times and may actually be useful to help any future relationship counsellor determine where things went astray.

Enough, blog blabbery and on with the show. If you haven't figured it out, the image on the right is the floor plan or our house. The top part shows the addition and the light grey lines show existing walls that we're toasting.

Stay tuned for pictures of the back of the house. Not a pretty sight. As the guy who built our garage said, "it looks like a tear-down." Let's hope with the money we are putting into this puppy that he's wrong.