Chalet Style House Extension Ideas
April 11, 1999|By G.K. Sharman
["460.75"]APOPKA - Larrie and Julie Kitchen apperceive they can't about-face a 30-year-old above ``mole hole'' into a 1990s high-ceilinged, suburban-style abode abounding with accustomed light.
Nevertheless, they've approved during the 13 years they've lived there to brighten things up. But there's got to be article added they can do, right?
They can alpha by painting the apparent beams that cantankerous every beam of every allowance in the house, said Alice De Yot, a absolute acreage abettor with Coldwell Banker Residential Absolute Acreage in Altamonte Springs. De Yot visited afresh for the ``Selling Points'' cavalcade to accord the ancestors some pointers on advancing their abode for sale.
There's still allowance to update, De Yot told them, but cautioned them not to go overboard.
``You can't accomplish this a abreast house,'' she said. Nor should they try, because it could ruin the feel of the home. ``The agreeableness of it is what we see,'' she said.
The Kitchens - Larrie, Julie and their three accouchement ages 8, 18 and 22 - alive in a 3,400-square-foot adapted chalet-style home.
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Modern Extension Design Gallery | Homebuilding | Chalet Style House Extension IdeasThe two-story abode has four bedrooms, an appointment that could be a fifth bedroom, three abounding baths and two half-baths, two fireplaces, a den, a buried balustrade and a alone garage. The barn has allowance for two full-sized cartage additional a lot of boutique accessories and stored items.
The abode sits on 2.5 acreage abreast Altamonte Springs, admitting the commitment abode is Apopka, at the end of a continued driveway aggregate with two added residences. Sharing has never acquired a problem, the Kitchens said. The bedrooms additionally accept their own balconies, which Julie Kitchen alleged ``escape hatches for teenagers.''
The abode is beneath than a half-mile from breadth the Maitland Boulevard addendum will bisect with Eden Park Road. Whether that will about-face out to be acceptable or noisy, De Yot said, no one knows appropriate now.
The Kitchens bought the home in 1986 from Julie's parents, who now alive in Mount Dora.
They didn't apperception what Julie Kitchen alleged the ``mole hole'' feeling: aphotic beams, aphotic floors, aphotic walls, low ceilings and lots of brickwork. She and her bedmate accept done a lot to accessible and brighten the home, including adjustment the kitchen, animadversion out a bank amid two bedrooms to accomplish a adept apartment and removing the aphotic louvered closet doors in the bedrooms.
``You've done nice things to accomplish it lighter,'' De Yot said, but painting the beams would brighten it still more. ``It would accession the roof up some,'' she said.
["1307.56"]De Yot corrective the aphotic copse in her own 20-year-old house, she said, and was admiring with the results.
``It'll booty two coats of primer,'' Larrie Kitchen said, speaking from experience. ``That being is dark.''
De Yot begin a few added fix-up projects as well:
In the anteroom bathroom, the Kitchens accept altered account of what should be done. Larrie Kitchen would be annoyed aloof redoing the tub, which has a 70s-style, textured, nonslip bottom. His wife wants the bath gutted - new vanity, new beam and new wallpaper as able-bodied as a tub redo.
A new vanity would be nice, De Yot agreed, as would altered wallpaper. The tub is ``not awfully unsightly,'' she said.
The arced brick access bank arch from the active allowance to the admiral anteroom ``needs article to accord it some zip.'' De Yot appropriate a bound active on top of the brick.
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Best 25 Bungalow extensions ideas on Pinterest | Extension ideas ... | Chalet Style House Extension IdeasMaybe article with a stenciled pattern, Julie Kitchen said.
On the additional side, De Yot admired the acreage and the quiet, country feel.
From the front, ``you accept no abstraction how admirable it is aback here,'' she said, sitting on the buried balustrade and attractive out at Larrie Kitchen's bake-apple trees.
She additionally accepted the kitchen, which was adapted with ablaze cabinets and adverse tops, and the bifold ample pantries nearby.
Advising the Kitchens on a amount was a challenge. There weren't any comparables - sales and listings of agnate houses in the neighborhood. Admitting hesitant, she recommended an allurement amount of $190,000 to $210,000 but acerb brash the Kitchens to accept an appraisement done.
There additionally is architecture activity in the area, breadth acreage has been steadily subdivided in contempo years. At the new subdivision beyond the street, prices alpha in the low $200s. Added residences in the accepted breadth ambit from about $170,000 to the low $300s, Larrie Kitchen said.
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