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Our Owner's Suite Remodel

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It's coming up on nearly a year of owning our Victorian house and we're making decent progress on the list of projects we had when we put the offer in.  Our biggest project is (was, now) the owner's suite. Having one was on our list of "must haves" for house hunting and while this house didn't have one when we bought it, we saw it had the space for it. Our conversation with contractors started as soon as we closed on the house, meeting 6 in the span of a week. After we considered whether to start at all during a pandemic and with us both working from home, we eventually got going on construction in June and wrapped up in November.  Before  This was the "master bedroom" or just the biggest bedroom. You can see some built-in cabinets in a hallway that led to the family room to the right, and off camera to the right was a small closet. To the left is the old chimney chaise. We tore out the wall between the back of the closet and the family room and con