Last week, we received our first bid back from one of the contractors we are thinking of hiring for our project.
His bid came back DOUBLE our budget. Double.
We had a sweet heart to heart with Kathy and a remarkable time of reworking the project, just the three of us. We've scaled down the project to accommodate our budget (wasn't that what we tried to do in the first place?) and we're all still satisfied with what we came up with.
The roof line is different, we won't deconstruct the garage, we took off the proposed (gorgeous) covered porch and we simplified Kathy's space.
I'll post pictures of the proposed plan when I delete photos from my web albums (using all my available space!). There's always something to do.
::sigh::
