Our addition is done! Expanding the living room.

When we moved into our home, we started a running list of all the things we wanted to do here. We chip away at that list little at a time. One of the big things was that we wanted to do was to push out a wall in our living room/dining room. It just so happened that our friend/contractor became available for our project just weeks before Thanksgiving. So, because we live for occasional spontaneity, we hopped on it. I came home from work/school and found this:

 I have the borderline OCD that I like to refer to as FAUX-CD. I struggle to relax when my house in in disarray. I try to be very organized and I like things to be clean and put away so the layer of dust and dirt that came along with the demo was a little hard to handle for me. Tack on top of that, Mr. B leaving for Chicago for a week in the middle and oh man, I just had to keep my eye on the light at the end of the tunnel!

The flooring in our house is the original 1954 hardwood. Since we pushed out the section of our living room (adding about 60 square feet) we needed to match the wood. Well in 1954, planks were 2" wide. In 2013, planks are 2 1/4" wide. We didn't have the time to wait for a special order so we planed down wood that we'd had at Rock Steady for a job. The guys did an amazing job and you can hardly tell the difference!

We removed 2 floor to ceiling windows and installed an 8ft slider. We also replaced the 8ft wide window by the dining table with one of the same width but it's 2ft higher so we kind of have a whole wall of windows looking out back. It's nice because we don't have neighbors to the back. Our neighbors to the south are blocked by high bamboo and a huge avocado tree and our neighbor to the north is now blocked by the new wall.

It is amazing how just a little bit of space can make such a lot a bit of difference! I'm SO happy with the result!