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If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at no co... - 7/5/2008 12:33:20 PM
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raspberry331
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If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at no cost to you , what would you add --?
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 1:10:37 PM
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garsyt
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I'm not sure this is what your looking for but I would add some sort of renewable source of heating and cooling and supplying my home with the energy it needs. Wind power is kinda out (where we live, it's just not practical) so I'd look into solar power and geothermal resources.
If it's space your talking about I'd add a room to that back of my home roughly 10 by 15 feet with a basement under it. It would end up being a family/gathering room. Sometimes we just need a bit of extra space, and a basement would be used for the laundry room and storage.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 1:52:08 PM
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I'm with Garsy on the solar panels. We have a flat roof, so that shouldn't be hard to do???
I'd also add a finished basement that we could use as a family room, with room for a pool table!
An attached greenhouse would be wonderful and allow my to grow more in our short growing season here.
My husband would demand a new garage. Ours is a pile of sticks held together by chicken wire.  In that new garage, we'd like it to have running water, heat, a play corner for the kids, and a hydraulic lift so he can work on cars more easily and safely.
Oh...and a nice back porch would be wonderful. Covered so we could still use it in inclimate weather. With sunlights, so we can still have natural light. 
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:08:20 PM
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Ooh, Jen. I like that idea of having the whole double house and opening it up. Turn the other kitchen into a laundry room. Have a double wide living room.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:10:44 PM
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Yup! I would do it if I could. Lots of people here do because the manhattan project houses are mostly duplexes. This is a heavily LDS area and so those with larger families will buy an A house (this is a B house and is only 1 level + basement, an A house is 2 levels + basement and three bedroom as opposed to two) and combine the two sides. I have even seen A houses that have another addition on back that nearly doubles the size of the double house, but if I had a dozen kids, I would do that as well.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:18:09 PM
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I guess I'm in a c house. I have 3 full floors with 4 bedrooms and a large bathroom. The other half is split into 2 apartments: first floor is a 1 BR apartment and 2nd and 3rd floor is another apartmetn
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:42:52 PM
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I would most definitely add on to our kitchen. Talk about tiny!!!!!!!!!! Now that I'm dreaming, I'd get new appliances too.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:46:07 PM
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I'd add a therapeutic, heated jacuzzi pool.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 4:51:54 PM
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Oooh a greenhouse would be a nice addition too.
Since we're dreaming I would LOVE to increase the size of my property too, going straight back adding about another acre of land, including a pond. But I highly doubt I'd be able to talk my neighbor out of her land. Drat. With that land I'd add more fruit trees. Mainly apple and peach trees, maybe a few plum. And a larger garden.
All that circled by a 8 foot high chain link fence (so I could see through it) so I could have bigger dogs as well. 8 foot high fences are KEY if I want old english bulldogs!
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/5/2008 11:48:03 PM
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I would put a 2-story 18'X20' addition off the front of my house (where the deck is now) with a wrap-around porch. the bottom half would be a living room the upper half bedroom (my son wants it) or a craft room / library, the current living room (which opens onto the deck) would be divided large walk-in closet for the small bedroom and dining room, the current dining room and kitchen would be combined into a single larger kitchen
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/6/2008 1:02:07 PM
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I would add a nice sized soap shack/craft room (or building) that could double as a studio apartment if I ever needed it for family or as an extra income. Then I could free my house of having soap, yarn, and other craft stuff at various places in my house. This would be especially helpful during the craft show seasons.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/7/2008 3:37:14 PM
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A landlord that doesn't believe in collecting rent. Then I'd be able to afford a house instead of an apartment.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/7/2008 5:14:48 PM
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A 2 car garage (except we'd have to get the space - there's no space for one)
Landscape the back - put in retaining walls, terracing, etc. so that it's not so steep on the one side!
ETA: I love the idea of green energy, too!
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/8/2008 11:55:10 AM
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MC4JC
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That's easy. Its already in our plans when God provides us the money to do it. We want to add on a screened in porch and a section for a hot tub.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/8/2008 5:00:14 PM
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A master bathroom with a jacuzzi tub.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/8/2008 5:09:50 PM
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Similar to MC4JC, I've been dreaming for a long time of a screen-and-glass "porch" with french doors out of the kitchen eating area... move the eating area outside for summer; in the winter, maybe have an inflatable hot tub set up. Then connect that to a lower level deck where the hot tub can be an unheated tot pool for the summertime too.
Turn our basement into a master bedroom suite... with a sitting area, and a really nice ensuite bathroom -- soaker tub, shower for two. Move our girls into the old master bedroom. Accept foster children into out girls 2 current bedrooms. Possibly able to later move a semi-independent teen down there with a mini-kitchen (move back upstairs ourselves). For now the mini-kitchen area can be for crafts & sewing.
Move all the basement stuff into a new (heated) double detached garage-and-workshop.
And, while I'm at it, I'd love a half-glass 'retreat room' -- to act as a library, home office, music room for my husband, a place for devotionals, and general quiet-alone place in an active home.
And, I'd like 'real' furniture. Not "hand-me-downs" and cheapest-chipboard-available options. But then I'd have to care for it. I take that back. I'll stick with the stuff that doesn't make me fussy about it.
I'm in on the alternative energy too. And I'd really like a heat-as-it-flows instant water heater instead of the tank kind. And some of those tubular sky lights that you can use to redirect sunlight, but just look mostly like a light fixture.
Some kind of super special windows that don't let so much broiling heat into our sunset-facing bedrooms at bed time. Wait... let's just make that central air conditioning instead. That would do just fine.
Ooooh... lots of land, with a pond and water fall! Me too!
But then I remember that my God supplies all my needs. Sometimes I wonder if my constant "dreaming" is a source of discontent and under-reliance..?
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/8/2008 7:05:01 PM
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I'd add a wait staff, cleaning staff, gardener... oh wait, you mean to the house itself. Well, we are building our next move up house right now, and budget does limit things. If I could, I would have built a large 3 car garage. Instead, I built an over sized 2 car garage to keep it within our $$$.
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RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at n... - 7/12/2008 7:11:01 AM
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I would ad an in-law suite and fix our funky bathroom, but a secret room sounds like fun.
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