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Discussion of the Home's Floor Plan

Bob looks over the plans for the project with GC Charlie Tomaszewski. The carriage house (once the dairy building) and the main house will be joined by a breezeway. The side porch of the house will be expanded into the kitchen space. The porch addition will incorporate two of the existing porch posts into the interior of the space. Creating one big kitchen and family space will require the removal of a lot of the existing structural walls.
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Discussion of the Home's Floor Plan

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" This is the carriage house that we've been looking at and this is the house. And this is the side porch that we're expanding into the kitchen space itself the breezeway would be a simple connecting space between the two of them. With a lot of glass enclosed and included and if you look at it in floor plan. You get a better idea. This is the breezeway it's just a square structure and then the little addition I was just talking about is the green shaded space in this area here. And it actually incorporates. The two existing porch posts into the interior of the space. This is a real interest in treatment for this this whole condition here and of course forward looking at right now is the removal of a lot of the existing structural walls in the two rooms that were here so we can create one big. Family room kitchen space."

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