Big Announcement!! The Lily Pad Cottage is growing…

You guys, I could not be more excited. Like jumping up and down, first day of summer break excited! We have been planning and planning this since December and it’s finally happening… ready?

Ok, so it doesn’t look like much right now, but that my friends is the start of our sunroom! It’s kind of a dream come true. When building on a lake (or at least a lake in our township) there are no less than 102 hoops to jump thru and miles of red tape. This project has been on and off at least 3 times. So even though, I hinted at it a few times I never dared utter the words until now….

because now, the most beautiful building permit is hanging in my front window and we have these gorgeous concrete squares in the ground.

C’mon get excited about my concrete squares, they sure were expensive enough. I won’t bore you with the details, but our house is basically built on stilts due to the water table and marshy land here. So we have to have these 25 ft piers drilled down under our house to make sure it doesn’t sink. And they are pricey (I’m not even going to think about the other 20 that are under the rest of our house and what I could have done with that extra money in the budget!) but anyways they work, our entire patio has sunk about 3 inches off our house, but our house has stayed put.

Ok, I will quit boring you with construction stuff, I’ll just tell you that my Uncle Rick (he built my parents house) will be doing the addition for us and I’ll be doing a lot of the finishing stuff – painting, laying the flooring etc…

I mean I tried to talk the Mr. into letting me DIY some more, but he was all “I want our house to stay standing and not be held together with a hot glue gun and staples blah, blah, blah” he has no sense of adventure…

I’ll be updating you all once a week with the latest happenings in the backyard, but since at the moment all we have is these beautiful concrete piers. I’ll show you a little bit of the plans.

First this is what the back currently looks like. Well what it looks like now, we had to rip out all the landscaping on the one side and move the fire pit to the other side, but I forgot to take photos of that whoops!

 This is the new plan, a 14 x 14 room off the back that will be open to our current living room.

The best part? Notice that deck up top???

That is off our master bedroom, can’t wait to have my morning coffee up there.

Here’s the downstairs view, the new sunroom will be open from our existing living room. This is kind of fun for those of you who always ask about our floor plan, you can get a better sense of the space. Well, of the lake side of the house anyways.

So the plans, this window is going to move down to the dining area. The slider door is going upstairs, with a few new windows surrounding it.

There will be a new sliding door on the side of the patio to access the backyard.

 

I can’t wait to share more with you all, but our project has hit a but of a speed bump at the moment. Our entire road was ripped out and repaved so our framing materials haven’t been able to make it to our house yet. Crossing our fingers for Wednesday though! Stay tuned..