Plans for new addition

We are at the NSB cottage again this week and will leave  in a few days to visit family in West Palm Beach for Thanksgiving. While here, hope to finish off the new opening from the living room onto the sunroom, plant some tropical plants we brought with us, and possibly add some new entry steps to the front porch.

This is a sneak preview of the house plan we have arrived at. Back in May, shortly after purchasing the house, we bought a computer program that allows one to design a house and actually be able to walk through that design and see how it feels and looks. We must have come up with 25 different designs , some one story and some two story. We then began making little changes to each plan to make it better. Then we had to choose which one had the most advantages.   

The opening in the upper left is to avoid an old oak tree we want to save.

The area shaded light blue is the original house footprint, about 600 square feet. We plan on adding about 1000 square feet for a total of 1600 sq. ft.

One of the big pluses of this design is that the front view of the house from the street will be virtually unchanged. We did not want to loose the charm and character of the original cottage that initially attracted us.