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[quote=Anonymous]We did a major renovation last year, and lived in the house while working FT from home. Added 2 bedrooms and a mudroom, and converted an existing bedroom to bathrooms. The other old bedroom became our guest room.

Living in the house was sometimes annoying but not that bad. As someone else said, you really need to be there every day anyway, to monitor, and it's helpful if you're there during working hours rather than stopping by after everyone has gone home. I personally wouldn't move out unless the kitchen was part of the project. If you feel you must move out because of kids, consider working from the site as many days as possible. We had kid (only child) sleep in our room, and spouse and I both worked from the basement. It's helpful if you purge your stuff first, because you are going to need to move things out of more rooms than you think and the rest of the house becomes cluttered.

It is a ton of time to properly monitor and make sure your decisions are being carried out. I wrote down all kinds of specifics that I wanted, but that didn't happen because nobody including me remembered at the correct time. I caught multiple issues by being there to look at something or answer questions.

Our project ran way over budget to the point it would have been better to move. YMMV on that. Also, I wish we'd had the budget to tear down, because tying a new addition into an old house can be tricky: nothing in the old house was square, and the older plumbing and electrical layouts are not what I'd choose. But aside from moving to some theoretical better house or building from scratch, I am really happy we did the project. We didn't technically need the space but the old layout was very poor and the new spaces are so nice. We use all the new space every day. [/quote]

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