Getting the initial drawings today of how we are going to turn 300 Mountain View Avenue into our dream home actually made me giddy. Considering the last couple of weeks haven't been all that stellar for me, it was nice to have something that made me excited.
John Lum, our architect, is the bomb. He works fast. And he instantly "got" the vision that John and I have for the house. We met with him over the course of a few hours a couple of weeks ago after work on a Friday night (yes, it was blazing hot in the house. Poor guy came in trousers and a long-sleeve shirt), we took him through the house and talked him through how we want it to function. Since then, he's been drawing up a plan that is going to help us turn our vision into reality.
Now, granted, reality isn't going to all happen at once right away. But it's good to have a roadmap. We quickly learned this as we started to tackle little things here and there. As we tried to get small projects started, the questions always led to bigger questions or required us to have something else figured out before we could tackle it. Because of this, we realized we needed a master plan.
Anyway, for those of you that have been in the house, we are going to knock out the wall that encloses the staircase to downstairs and cut off the narrow walkway that goes from the front door to the kitchen, and re-create the pantry in that space. The kitchen will become a tad bit smaller (we'll move the fridge down) and where the southwest window faces that looks out towards Mt. Tam, we are going to create a family/den area. It's going to be killer. Also, we are going to make the second bathroom smaller and the master bathroom bigger. Selfish? Yes. But John and I are worth it.
Just for kicks, I've attached the initial drawings. Take a look and let us know what you think.
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