We are adding a third floor!

Well, I haven't blogged in a while, because I felt like nothing really was happening.  But now that I look at the last time I blogged, a lot has happened!!   The boys rooms are finished framing, and the room is done being framed also.   (Actually, the roofers have it half shingled now, but I don't have any pictures yet, so that will be my next blog.) 

Our loan officer told us from the beginning that if there were better ways to utilize space once the house started getting framed in, to take advantage of them. So far, we've enlarged Ty's closet, and we've make a walk-through shared closed between Kaleb's room and Chandler's bathroom that would have been a small attic space. We still have three "attic" areas, over RK's bedroom and our bathroom/closet area and the areas beside Chandler's room and Kaleb's room. Well, the roof is now being put on, and there is a HUGE space above the boys' bedrooms that we would just be closing up and losing access to. We really don't need more attic space, and we talked with the builders about extending the staircase and framing in a bonus room up there, and they said, "We were wondering when you were going to ask about that!" lol So the staircase will just go up one more floor, and the boys will have a nice 17x20 room to hang out in. I'm going to put the Wii up there, their guitars and drum set, and a futon for extra sleeping room for guests. We already have the left over materials lying around, so for just the cost of the extra labor to install the stairs and frame it up, we'll be adding about $15K +/- to the total worth of the home.

Here's pics: