My husband an I are newlyweds and we are currently living in the house he bought when he was out of college. We have started remodeling our home and have put new windows new siding, and turned the old garage (his pickup wouldn't fit in it) into a living room. We have not finished the living room, but we do have the walls sheetrocked and painted. That is about how far we have gotten. We do not even have lights in there yet. We need flooring in every room of our house, as we pulled up all of the old carpet when we took out a few walls. We cannot put flooring down, as the entry to our basement is a hole cut in the kitchen floor ( we did not know what to do for when we needed to get to the breaker box, etc so we just cut a big rectangle and put stairs underneath). Not a big deal since we just have tile with old carpet glue on top!
We now have the layout that we want ,except for a storage area such as a basement or attic. We do not currently have kitchen cabinets. We would also love a mudroom as we farm and ranch and we bring in ALOT of dirt (and sometimes we have to bring a baby calf inside to get them warmed up and I don't want him in my bathtub!) We have added an additional bathroom, which is not finished yet, just functional.
Now that it is winter, we have also started to get black mold, which happens every winter in different bedrooms. Our floor in the bedrooms are tile on top of cement. The cement has started to settle and crack, which makes a gap between the floor and the wall. We are unsure how to put flooring on top.
The small basement that we do have has now started to fill with water, as the drain doesn't work anymore.
If we stayed in the same house, we would need flooring, kitchen cupboards, and a mudroom with a basement underneath. The house was built by the farmer who we bought it from and is around 60 years old. We have been living with no kitchen or flooring for over 2 years and it is time to change! Should we build a new house or fix up the one we have? We own the property where we would put the new house half mile away.