{"id":42471,"date":"2019-08-11T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=42471"},"modified":"2019-08-12T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:39:41","slug":"big-updates-to-our-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=42471","title":{"rendered":"Big Updates Coming To Our Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew that with two children there would be some big changes beyond the obvious ones.\u00a0 I am doing a whole lot more laundry and dishes than ever before.\u00a0 I never even thought about this until number two arrived.\u00a0 Ha!!!\u00a0 The joke is on me.\u00a0 We currently have our laundry room or laundry closet right off our kitchen, and it is combined with a pantry.\u00a0 We used the Easy Closets<\/a> system to create a pantry which I love.\u00a0 However, having a stacked washer and dryer in a space not much bigger than a small closet is not great.<\/p>\n

\"Laundry<\/p>\n

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New Laundry Room<\/h2>\n

We have made it work, but we don’t think it is practical in its current setup.\u00a0 We don’t have a place for our ironing board, so it seems to live in our bedroom.\u00a0 \u00a0Right off our second floor bedroom through some French doors is a balcony. When we bought the house, we were those people saying that we would use it all of the time.\u00a0 But…..we also have a front porch, a cocktail porch, and a back porch that do get used.\u00a0 The only time we have used that balcony is when we needed to dry some clothes after spraying them with mosquito repellent before we traveled.<\/p>\n

\"\"(This is the picture from the listing.)<\/em><\/p>\n

After consulting with an architect, we have come up with a plan to transform the balcony into a laundry room and add a few other features. We are going to bump out and build where the balcony is now located.\u00a0 You cannot tell from this photo, but it is located over our back porch.\u00a0 I remember seeing a laundry room off of a master bedroom in another house, and I loved that idea.\u00a0 I am the one who does the laundry, and I like that the laundry room will be upstairs, out of sight, and close to the bedrooms.\u00a0 Mom has always had a second floor laundry room, and I know how convenient it it.<\/p>\n

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\nHere is our bathroom which is dated, but it will not be included in this Phase 1.\u00a0 We will have the laundry behind the bathroom.\u00a0 We will add a door with a pocket door beside the tub where the window currently is located.\u00a0 The tub makes it tighter than it should be, but I actually love this tub.\u00a0 I use it at least once a week, and it works for me.\u00a0 While the style isn’t my favorite and the bathroom is dated, it works great, and that tub is something I am not ready to part with at this point in my life.<\/p>\n

Along with the laundry room, we are going to push out the master bedroom’s exterior wall\u00a0 and add a walk-in closet and a small office for my husband.\u00a0 We have an office that I use, but he is not a fan of the hot pink desk<\/a> or ghost chair<\/a> for sitting.\u00a0 He would rather have an office out of the way and more masculine.<\/p>\n

In-Law Suite<\/h2>\n

The other half of this project deals with our garage.<\/p>\n

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This is the picture from the listing.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our grass isn’t that lush.\u00a0 Thanks to the dog and heat, our back yard is looking rough right now.\u00a0 \u00a0We are going to build a second floor and add an in-law suite to the top of the garage.\u00a0 Now that we have two children, we lost our guest room<\/a>.\u00a0 We want our families to be comfortable and have their own space when they visit, so we need to create some space.\u00a0 Plus, we might be able to Airbnb the garage bedroom eventually.\u00a0 We are so close to Uptown Charlotte that we feel we would have good success in renting out our place on a short term basis should we go that direction.<\/p>\n

So, there you go. \u00a0 Some big plans are in the works.\u00a0 We are tweaking a few more things on our plans. and then we should be ready to start taking bids.\u00a0 We are not sure when we will get started, but seeing the plans is getting us excited.\u00a0 We are told that this is a small project, and right now with how busy the building industry is in Charlotte, contractors might not want to take it on. We are ready, and I know my parents will be ready and excited when it is finished.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

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I knew that with two children there would be some big changes beyond the obvious ones.\u00a0 I am doing a whole lot more laundry and dishes than ever before.\u00a0 I never even thought about this until number two arrived.\u00a0 Ha!!!\u00a0 The joke is on me.\u00a0 We currently have our laundry room or laundry closet right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42556,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42471\/revisions\/42556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}