Friday, April 23, 2010
5 bedrooms / 3 baths
The more astute readers, will note that the house is listed on the market as 5 bedrooms and 3 baths, but that the county records list the house as 3 bedrooms and 3 baths. The county records do match in the square footage (both the MLS listing and the county agree that the house is 2520 square feet). What this means of course is that the house is permitted and approved for 2520 square feet (it was added to in the 1980's), but when the addition was originally planned, the architect only included 3 bedrooms. That meant there was a lot of open space in the house.
What was interesting about the addition, is that it added a second floor to the home, and one bedroom and one bath was placed upstairs. Since the upstairs is almost as large as the ground floor, that meant everything else in the upstairs was open space. With a center staircase, the open space was divided evenly at the front of the home, where there were two front facing windows. It was a perfect opportunity to add two walls to create two bedrooms at the front of the house. And that's exactly what happened. Two walls were added (which can be easily removed) with doors to create the two upstairs front bedrooms. While these were built without obtaining permits, a new owner can apply to the city for permits; remove these walls and go back to 3 bedrooms / 3 baths; or just keep the house as-is. (Note: The wall separating the two bedrooms is part of the original plan - it was necessary for structural reasons and is legal and permitted).
For those needing 5 bedrooms, this floor plan is ideal as a 5 bedroom house. There's a ground floor master suite (could be used as in-law quarters), another ground floor bedroom and another full bath downstairs. The remaining open space in the upstairs serves as a play room, family room, or office space.
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