Future House Plans

Future House Plans

Once our debt is all paid off except for the mortgage, I plan to start not only putting more money away into savings, but starting up a “home improvement” fund. There are some big ticket things I want to do to the house, but also some smaller ones I can do in the mean time. The bigger ones I probably won’t be able to start for at least another year or two.

Big Items

  • Completely renovate the upstairs bathroom, removing the shower stall and putting in a bath tub. Especially rip out the carpet in there. Who the hell puts carpet in a bathroom? I’ll probably hire my uncle to do this.
  • Put on a new roof on the entire house. This is a biggie, and probably one I’ll need to do before most of the others. Good way to spend $10k.
  • Rip out the ceilings in both rooms upstairs and extend them all the way to the roof, also put in ceiling fans if possible. Right now we have this…cubby hole of sorts above the upstairs bedrooms. I don’t know what’s there (if anything), but it’s wasted space. The ceilings are low in the bedrooms so this would open them up at least a little bit. This’ll have to come after the new roof.
  • Eventually rebuild the walls in both bedrooms upstairs, after the new roof and after the ceilings are redone. This would include rebuilding and finishing off the side cubby spaces, as well as redoing the closets. Then I have to…..repaint them :/
  • Build a greenhouse off of the basement
  • Refinish the basement so that it can be used as either 1. Business, 2. Apartment, or 3. Room for rent for Gettysburg tourist season. I already have an area picked out which should work for a kitchen.
  • New windows throughout the house, hopefully those eco-friendly ones that help keep things warm and cool at appropriate times. This needs to be done upstairs sooner than later, because these windows look like they are falling apart up here.
  • New siding around the whole house. Maybe a cedar siding?
  • Maybe eventually run heating/air ducts to the top two bedrooms. But I’ll have to keep the floor vents for the wood-stove.

Smaller Items

  • Build a large back deck. I put this under small because we’ll be doing it ourselves, we’ll only need cost of materials.
  • Put shelves in the root cellar
  • Finish sanding the floor in my bedroom and put down a natural finish
  • Put up shelves in the basement
  • Tear up the messed up concrete in the basement and redo. This is a smaller item too cause it’ll only be cost of materials since my dad has been doing concrete all his life anyway.
  • Lots of little things on the kitchen. Repaint, remove piping from old washer/dryer hook-up, fix the pipe under the dishwasher.
  • Hire my cousin to redo some electrical work around the house. Move my bedroom switch inside the room, install lightning in the office, rewire the outside light pole to a switch in the house. Might wait and do this after the ceilings are done in the bedrooms.

No idea how much some of these upgrades will raise the house value, but I imagine some of it will be significant. I imagine if/when I ever decide to sell it, I may invest in new cabinets in the kitchen as well, but who knows.

We’ll save a lot of money on most of these projects because we’ll do them ourselves or hire family, since most of my family on my father’s side are laborers. Course if I can hire friends to come up too, that’d be awesome as well. Kinda…share the spending amongst people I care about.

The roof I may hire professionals to do though, as I don’t want either me or my dad playing around on the roof to be honest.

Ambitions, I haz dem.