Slow Going

We fully intended to have our smoke detectors installed by now. It just hasn't happened. The sack of detectors has been lying on the floor since the weekend. We've talked about doing it the past several nights in a row, but we've either eaten dinner too late, become caught up in other chores, been too tired, or been distracted.

That's not to say that we haven't done anything at all. It's just that we haven't done anything to the house as it exists right now.

So what, exactly, have we been doing with our time? Why, planning for the future. The reality of the situation is that our floor plan is funky, and the house is small. I, personally, hate the bathrooms. We also know that we're not going to be here forever, so making improvements that will increase the value of the home is in our best interests. Luckily we have this nice little software package that lets us take our floor plan and move stuff around. Walls vanish or appear, windows get moved, and all manner of furniture and appliances are added. We've been using this software to figure out what we want our house to look like when we're done with it. This is what we're starting with:












There's a lot of room there, but it isn't used to the utmost. We think we can do better, which is how we came up with this plan.












The only problem is that we're not sure we'll be able to afford those changes. We're trying to come up with a plan, but who knows if it'll be feasible or not. We're also trying to figure out ways to add a third bedroom, or maximize what we have now without enclosing the car port. Turns out that it's tedious work, and yet we manage to spend a lot of time on it. The hours just drain away, hours that we could have spent hanging smoke detectors. Okay, so the detectors would probably only take a few minutes to hang, and we don't really have any excuses.

So I'm going to pretend that we're slaves to a dream and leave it at that.