Space Changing
Our basement is currently set up to workout and play space, soon it will serve as our interim kitchen & family room |
After deliberating this summer and early fall we have decided to start a home remodel. A tear down, bust through, re create space project. Sheff has promised kids can hold sledgehammers, color on walls and save pieces to make a stellar fort in the back yard. This is all very exciting but I get a bit woozy imagining running this family of 10 without an entry way (think jackets, hats, boots, back packs) or a kitchen (think, well life all revolves around the kitchen counter!) for months on end.
I am sure it will work out beautifully. And having a kitchen twice the current size, a mud room and family room that work for our gang will be life changing. But I am predicting some highs and lows staging a kitchen in the basement and a temporary mud room in the garage.
I often have initiated changing how we use the current 6 bedrooms, shuffling kids, kicking some out for a workout room, allowing 4 to one room and 1 to another. That fluidity seems necessary with age and gender coming into the mix. But changing decor from horses to baseball is not the same as busting out walls and gutting a kitchen.
Sheff, like usual, is cool as a cucumber in the planning. I am actually the one having hard time envisioning change. I guess the longer you live in a space the harder it is to creatively re think it!
We will be eating on the floor more often! |
We will start knocking down walls in the new year! Make it through the holidays (yup this mama loves Christmas, can't imagine the chaos at Christmas time with a remodel!)
ReplyDeleteExpect extra folks at your table and in your laundry room in 2013, what no room for an extra 10 of us? :)