Another front view

Here's another angle of the house (with snow!)

(And no, this picture is a few months old and snow isn't covering the ground here in Duluth in June in case you're thinking this part of the world is winter year round with a bunch of lutefisk-eating, flannel-wearing people walking around saying 'yah you betcha' to everyone they meet).

Uff-da. Anyway, this view gives a nice angle of the side and the attached tuckunder garage in the back of the house. (See June 9th's entry for a better view of the back of the house with the garage here). One idea we have is to put a bedroom and bath addition above the tuckunder garage. We won't use the garage for parking cars as it was designed to hold a small 1920's car, not a minivan. Or 'man-van' if I'm driving lol. Anyway, We'd like to remove the overhead garage door and frame in a door and window. Then we have a nice 11'x18' basement room to use for additional living space. The space above the garage could then be added on to to give us some additional main floor space. One challenge would be of course how do you blend the addition to the original house so it doesn't look like an addition. One thing that would help with this is the fact the tuckunder garage looks like part of the original house, so if the addition was done right, people wouldn't guess that it's not original to the house. Another thing we can do is install Maple hardwood floors and finish them to match the rest of the 1920's flooring in the house. Same goes for the woodwork as it's all white throughout the house, so matching the window, door, and baseboard millwork would be easy to do. We could order matching windows and use beadboard and other elements to make the addition look original on the inside. What's getting me is the outside, how do you make that look original. I love the siding as it is and I know I don't have siding to use for an addition. It's possible to remove and reuse the existing siding on the back of the house, but we would not have enough. So we would need to be creative and find a way to do something different that looks original for the siding. So that's where we're at ... planning an addition when we should be packing boxes and picking paint colors. lol. Gotta love old houses. :)