Great Job - I really like it! From all the comments, it seems that people either really like it or don't - I like it!!!! I would love to see the back of the house and the back yard :) Thanks for posting! Chuck

Also, if anyone can find examples of what a room inside of a gable dormer looks like, that would be super helpful! Thanks.

Very inspiring! The colour combination and the use of materials and finishes are just PERFECT! Would like to see more of your Before and After projects! Let's connect? :) Cheers, G+R Concept

Actual construction likely should begin with the footing/foundation. First, invest in a pad of graph paper and pencils and a good eraser. Then take accurate measurements of the existing new home and draw it, to scale -- emphasis on "to scale" -- indicating existing windows and doors and weight bearing walls. If you're adding a new roof and don't want/need to use the old roof as a ceiling, then you could rip out all interior walls. Draw, to scale, what you want to end up with in the way of a floor plan. You need to decide if you want to change any doors or windows. You want to decide if you want to add any porches and specifically where. You need to decide if you're planning to just paint the existing siding or change it. If your lot is large enough to do so, consider building your footing and foundation (and a level sub floor) behind the existing home and move the wood frame of the home onto the new footing/foundation/subfloor so the house will be farther from the road. Even if you don't move the home, you might want to find out if you would be able to have the wood framed house jacked up in order to build a new footing and foundation. When homes are moved, steel I-beams longer than the home is wide can be placed under the home and their ends raised/jacked up and set on temporary pillars while a truck drives underneath them. In your case, even if you cannot move your home, this could help ensure you have a really good footing and foundation w/appropriate venting on which to rebuild your home. What you do next would depend on the decisions you made as you were drawing what you want. You might consider beginning with pouring concrete floors for any porches you plan to have, ripping of any existing siding you intend to remove. Then, removing any existing roof overhang needed to do so, build the posts that will support your new roof, remembering where you want your windows and doors as you do so. [If you could create at least a 6' wide porch on both long sides, you might consider a barn style roof rather than just the standard gable roof. Your upstairs exterior walls would be built atop your downstairs exterior walls and the steeper slopes of the barn style roof would cover your porches and you'd end up with more room upstairs without a having the standard two story house and you can still add dormer windows to the roof and/or even a balcony over a porch below.] If you build the new roof over the existing building (think pole barn -- whether gable or barn style roof) but build the new roof NOT connected to the existing building, you can then remove as much of the existing flat roof as you need to in order to accomplish what you want in renovating the house, including removing any and all interior walls, whether or not they were load bearing walls. Importantly, you can take your time building without regard to the weather.