Going Up, Growing Up

Welcome to my new blog. This blog is really meant so our family and friends and join in the roller coaster ride which we have embarked upon for the next 10 - 12 weeks. We are adding a timber frame second storey to our home during my last trimester of pregnancy. Yup we are definitely crazy. It was either do it now before our second blessing is born or do it when she's two so ....... we are doing it now.

Why a second storey you might ask. Well we needed an extra room and a bathroom and so we decided to just go ahead and add a whole second floor. OK that is a little exteme but we looked at all the options and our roof is such and strange shape that any ground level addition would require some serious roof construction. So it was go up timber frame style or move. We hate packing and we love our house and Witch Rooms offers a great timber frame process.

What are we putting upstrais:

• three bedrooms
• 1 and a half bathrooms (one on suite)
• and a little balcony off our bedroom
  

What will happend to the bedrooms downstrais

• Our bedroom will become a family room
• Our TV nook will become the dinning room
• Curious George's (my blog name for our 20mnth old son) room will be the staircase and a understairs office area
• The study will become a play room/ guest room

Why we liked the Witch Rooms option

•  A timber frame second storey will take 10 - 12weeks to finish 
• They build everything outside and on top of your roof and only come into your house in the last two week to build the stairs. 
• The leave your roof on (mostly) until the walls are up and the roof A-frames are up then they move your original roof tiles up. So you are only without a roof from like one day.

Sounds perfect right. Well keep track of this blog and you'll discover if this is true.