New House

So I got a new house.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110774&page=6

It is a ranch that we are gutting and adding a 2nd floor. Would anybody be interested in seeing progress pictures? We have a tentative start date of March 1. It should take about 4 months. I will be expanding the garage to 2 car, so after contruction I will head up the f-car search again.

Before:
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Congrats! Sounds like quite the project, I'd love to see progress pics. I always enjoy seeing work in progress.

 

Me too. I don't know why, but I love house build projects - I'm a sucker for home building/renovation programmes on TV...

 

Congrats....!

Ferrari's come and go, as cars do , , , but a house will pay off $$$$$, in the coming economic inflation.....

inflation must occur for a few reasons;
1) Make USA products more saleable overseas.
2) Reduce the National Debt.

This be my hood,,,,,,
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Congrats!
Yeah... It will be cool to see the work in progress.

 

Please do !
I am a do-it-yerselfer also. I have tackled many renovations at my home here in SI too. We are toying with the idea of a roof raise right now.
Move to Jersey, or expand our cape..... Decisions Decisions.

Best of luck


My one recco with dealing with contractors:


Buy plenty of Excedrin

 

Congrats on the purchase. The renovation should help your appreciation go up a lot!

 

Will do.
Depending on weather, we should start soon. It might actually snow here on Long Island. My building permit was approved and I am signing with the contractor tomorrow.
Now I'm off to buy that extra large bottle of Excedrin.

Jim

 

Congratulations on the purchase!

Progress pictures would be great.

 

Kitchen then
Living Room then
Office...
We are going to repurpose the rooms. Just a taste
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Congrats! Have fun.

 

O_O Whooooooooa!!! Quite the difference! Way to go!

 

nice! looking forward to seeing more pics.

 

Congrats!

Love the pics!

 

Love the pics - seeing pics like these always makes me wnat to get the power tools out and take the house apart...

I really like the door in your top pic - looks cool

 

Impressive.

My wife wouldn't trust me around the house with anything more than a Fisher Price hammer.

 

Here is the latest update to the pic from 2/11
They framed out the first floor. The roof is coming off this week. Now the fun starts. We have had some pretty cold weather, so things got delayed a bit. I should have some good pictures within the next week or so.
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So here we go,
1. Inside of house, completely gutted, no roof on front
2. Digging the foundation to make the garage bigger
3. Outside shot, half the roof is gone. The rest will be off this week.
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Wow that looks like a massive project. If you don't mind me asking, what is your budget for all of this?

 

I'm in the process of doing something similar to my ranch, but instead of going up, we're staying one-storey. Gutted and added 2800 s.f., plus 500 s.f. garage. Taping the rock as we speak (sic)!
Good luck!

edit: Is that your hot tub alongside the dumpster and behind the pallet of block?

 

wait wait wait...

you mean this type of work doesn't get done in 7 days like on TV shows? Well I am NEVER buying a fixer upper now!

 

The garage,,,,,, the garage! ,,, what about the garage?

 

$400K
The house will be 3200sqf. Where I live, we figure $100/sqf. Obviously there are upgrades to the basic price.

 

ADDING 2800sqf to the ranch! That will be some size house. My garage will be 400sqf. Below is a pix of the inside. We are adding 6 ft to it to be 20x20, 2 car.
The item in front of the cinder blocks is another, smaller dumpster.
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So, where ya livin'?