Love It or List It?

My husband watches the Love It or List It show pretty often. I'm really glad he does or he might not have decided it was time to remodel our home. We have a three bedroom ranch style home that was built in 1964 with probably around 1500 square feet originally. When we purchased the home 11 years ago it also had a 20" x 24" great room that had been added 8 years before. The great room was THE reason we bought the house, in addition to the full basement.

Eleven years later we decided to add a closet in the basement and my husband began removing the paneling. To our horror he found a long horizontal crack in the foundation! He removed the paneling on another wall, and while that one was not nearly as bad, it appeared we would be doing some major excavation to repair the foundation.

Why not get everything done at once and use all that equity we had built up over the years?  That's how we made the decision that it was time to RENOVATE. We didn't plan to move and we were very happy with the location of our property. We have a park-like setting with almost two acres on the edge of town. Our yard is private and backs up to a creek (drainage ditch- but it's pretty), and Scott has planted over 50 trees since we've lived here. Across the street is a field and the city zone ends in the middle of the road, so no one is likely to ever build unless it is rezoned. That's not likely, as farmland is a precious commodity here in Northwest Ohio.