Permits

We are go on all the necessary permits. Oddly enough, the one that took the longest was from the Health Dept. Because we have a septic system, they needed to send someone out to look over the proposed site. We had to stake out where the addition is going and where the septic field currently resides. The Health Dept. comes out and makes sure you are not building on or too close to your septic field.

The house

When we bought this house 3 years ago - all 980 square feet of it, we knew it would need an addition.

Some specs -

Built in 1982
980 square feet
2 stories
Footprint is roughly 32x24
1 bathroom
2/3 bedrooms. 2 bedrooms have doors, 1 is the loft area.
One closet under the stairs.
One door, the front.
South facing with big windows for excellent passive solar.

Not a lot of space for a family of 5. But enough. It does make it easy to heat and cool. And its easy to talk to someone who is upstairs.

So, after 3 years, we are finally getting around to putting on an addition.