Our house is sorta squeezy
When we moved to Seattle in January 2012, we didn't expect to still be here in 2019. We certainly did not expect to be proud possessors of one of the smallest houses in our suburb.
We have a habit of buying small, cheap houses.
So our pride and joy is a 780 sq ft two bedroom, one bathroom house that has one big thing going for it - location location location! But that doesn't make up for our house being so small that when we put a couch and a dining table with four (five) chairs in the living room, then added a dresser (aka sideboard and necessary junk holder) and a filing cabinet and a couple of odds and sods... well suddenly there was hardly room to scratch yourself, though it was plenty easy enough to scratch any visitors. Four people in the room is a crowd. We once managed to get ten or so people in for a Christmas dinner - OMG, do not recommend.
We've also had njh's parents stay with us - they are lucky ducks and get the study, which isn't big enough for all my crap let alone a double bed but they've made do.
We started refining our ideas about how to make our house more visitor friendly. We decided that razing and rebuilding a bigger house was too costly and wasteful, and heard about lifting houses and building another floor underneath it.
Well njh is a go big or go home sorta guy and thought hey, if one floor is good, why not two? It won't cost that much more.
Yep. Here we are. We are going up in the world!
We have a habit of buying small, cheap houses.
So our pride and joy is a 780 sq ft two bedroom, one bathroom house that has one big thing going for it - location location location! But that doesn't make up for our house being so small that when we put a couch and a dining table with four (five) chairs in the living room, then added a dresser (aka sideboard and necessary junk holder) and a filing cabinet and a couple of odds and sods... well suddenly there was hardly room to scratch yourself, though it was plenty easy enough to scratch any visitors. Four people in the room is a crowd. We once managed to get ten or so people in for a Christmas dinner - OMG, do not recommend.
We've also had njh's parents stay with us - they are lucky ducks and get the study, which isn't big enough for all my crap let alone a double bed but they've made do.
We started refining our ideas about how to make our house more visitor friendly. We decided that razing and rebuilding a bigger house was too costly and wasteful, and heard about lifting houses and building another floor underneath it.
Well njh is a go big or go home sorta guy and thought hey, if one floor is good, why not two? It won't cost that much more.
Yep. Here we are. We are going up in the world!
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