Recent content by JessicaK

I will try to measure what I can tomorrow. I'm confused about the projection between the house and drive way. The house and garage are not lined up. I've tried to draw a diagram of where things are. It's my first diagram attempt, so please forgive me! The house and garage are about 5 feet apart...

Property has a chain link fence around entire backyard. Currently a little fence between the garage and house. I would defiantly want it to be a room where we can enjoy spending time in, maybe even think about a hot tub some day in there. Window I mentioned using as the new door space is the...

View from the back

Hi folks. Still I the house hunt. Liked this house that I saw today, but I was thinking it could really benefit from an enclosed breezeway / 3 season room / porch. Something to connect the detached garage, and give an entry/mud room. I also would like that it would give an entrance into the back...

We didn't get the house. :( It's been on the market for 3 months and the seller owes the asking price on the house. She's only willing to go $2,500 in closing costs with the original price, and at that price, we don't have enough budget left to fix the many many things that need help. :(...

Here is the whole house floor plan. It was made just to help us think about the space and remember it from all of the other houses we have seen, so it is not very well to scale, and he was not confident about having the North wall the same on each floor! I have tried to label the North wall to...

I'm not sure that would work at all. Mostly because the attic space doesn't have any heat going to it, which we thought would be ok for a bathroom if we did radiant heat in the flooring. Bedroom 1 is significantly larger than the diagram shows. Mentally I put Hubby and I in bedroom 1 with our...

Stair way with ledge

Here are a few more photos of the space. On the upper landing, you can see a board that creates a bit of a ledge on the wall where the stairs are going down. Is this the rim joist? I will not have an opportunity to get back into the house for a while, so this is the best I can do.

I do love this idea and am thinking it might be the best way to achieve the finalized feel that we want. I'm quite sure it is out of the price range for now, but in a few years would be a nice way to expand if we could set things up now to have a stool and sink, in a confirmation that is...

I don't own this home. I only get the chance to see it when I request a showing with my realtor. It's not that I'm trying to be difficult. This project is just in the idea stage at this point, so exact measurements aren't even on the drawing board at this point. I am trying to establish if this...

My understanding was that the plumber was going to go strait down from the attic room, through the kitchen and into the basement, never entering the stair space. I've shown my husband some of this, he is really impressed with the forum. I'm guessing he will be on to post more specific...

Oh, and it's hard to go any further, we don't even own this house yet! Hoping to put an offer on on Sunday!

I raised this concern with the plumber. I'm not sure if he could tell from looking in the basement, but he said the floor was great. Now that I know what number to look for, I will check as well when it gets opened up. The other side of the wall on that end is the stairs. The current door...

No, it is open to the studs, you are seeing the back side of the plaster wall. The house was built in 1914.