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pbaribeault -> RE: If you had a chance to ' Add on ' to your home at no cost to you , what would you add --? (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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