But you have an actual house to sleep in?
Or are you a snorer
We plan to renovate our house and so need somewhere to live for about 4-6 months.
The main house is only 50 years old but it was a holiday house and so previous owner did not keep the maintenance up.
It is only 112 square metres, 14 metres wide by 6 metres deep. plus a small front sunroom and open top verandah.
It needs a new roof, and the old casement leadlight windows don't close and lock properly.
The plan is to spend about $150,000 on renos. Plus about $10,000 on a small pool.
Remove the sunroom and extend the front verandah right across the front.
Open front but enclosed at the ends and roofed, with ceiling fans and a small wood heater.
Add a 14 metre wide by 6 deep fully enclosed verandah at the back with bifold windows and screens.
Change to a double skillion roof with louvre windows , similar to the picture below.
Internally we will change from 3 bedroom, the current third is small, to just the two large bedrooms but both with ensuite.
We will then make the lounge room and kitchen one large open plan room.
The rear enclosed verandah will have a ventilated BBQ/outdoor kitchen and pizza oven where we will do most of the cooking.
We plan to put a small above ground pool surrounded by a raised deck.
This will link the house and the shed together.
So the house will go up to around 200 square metres, the shed is 150 square metres and we will add about 50 square metres of decking. and an outdoor 3.3 square metre bathroom to the shed for use by shed and pool guests.
We have also set it up, and positioned the shed so that our friends caravans and motorhomes can park and plug into power.
We have 5 metres x 20 metres hard packed road base behind the shed, waterfront at high tides, and 4.5 metres x 15 metres at the left hand side of the shed.
We currently have a 4 M x 3 M concrete patio on the right hand side of the shed that the portable bathroom will sit next to.
Plan is to cover that with an insulated roof and then plant raised gardens and small fruit trees and some raised wooden deck pathways.
Lisa wants a rock/water garden in the front yard, which is only 14 metres x 2.5 metres.
Only bit left with grass will be the front footpath
So I have 5 years until I retire to get it all done and total cost of the property about $800,000 spent.
Then I will have a comfortable home that our two children and 3 grandchildren can visit for holidays whenever they want.
