How did your bump out go? I have a similar problem, I have a very small full bath-it is only as wide as my bathtub and only as long as the stool, a wall-mounted sink, and the narrow end of the bath, with 12 inches or less separating each fixture--and would like a few more feet so I could add a walk-in shower and some kind of towel cubby. House is on a slab. If it is true that adding such a small bit of space is as expensive as adding 20/20 addition, then I guess I will continue to use the yucky shower head on the wall above the tub drain with a plastic shower curtain. Not ideal, but functional. :(

Thanks! I asked my cabinet maker for repose grey cabinets, they are a conversion varnish that is supposed to be matched to repose grey. The sample turned out lighter/less grey than I was expecting, but we liked it so stuck with it. They are still grey but fairly subtle... almost a greyish off white rather than GREY. They do look whiter in the pic than in real life. We use the drawers under the washer all the time, mostly for clean clothes or empty laundry baskets (I wanted a place to store these things since there isn't a dedicated closed off laundry space). I liked the pedastels that come with washers for the height raise, but found the storage useful and didn't understand why it couldn't be functional. The drawers were specifically sized to fit a laundry basket. My only issues with the setup is getting the units in and out is a little tough and a two person job. The laminate counter they were on got a little chipped and the adjacent cabinet got scratched one of the first times we had to move them (had some install issues with the ducting that requiring pulling them out several times, turned out it was plugged up by the hvac people and no one knew). Now that I know to be very careful with them and protect the counter/cabinet a little, it's not a big deal. The hanging bar next to the washer/dryer was a great idea too and use that all the time as well.

The entrance to our house goes right into our living room/family room. Since we do not have a large living room I was contemplating doing a bump out and moving the front door entrance a few feet further away and creating a longer hallway. I'm not looking to have an enclosed mudroom, as much as I'm looking for a foyer, add some additional SQ footage, so that the entrance to the house be so close to the living room. I feel like we have the space to push out, but I'm wondering if the brick in the exterior of the house would be problematic to remove. Looking for any suggestions on whether this is worthwhile project or tips on how to move it forward.

I am still trying to get an appointment with the building inspector to see exactly what is allowable here, as they obviously have the final say and it's somewhat unclear. There already is a crawlspace under the house that is actually deeper and more accessible along that front side of the house (via an access panel inside), and while it's hard to see from this photo, the ground slopes down in front of the house so the cantilevered bump-out would be further off of the ground than that part of the house. I will try to get more pictures posted as I know it's hard to see, but my house is also hard to photograph well because there are a lot of obstructions as I live in a heavily forested area. I'm not trying to be confusing here, but it's a confusing house, trust me, as many older houses on weird lots are. For the bump-out and the scope of what I'm asking about here, I'm really talking about a microaddition (of 36 inches bumped out on 2 x 10 joists, by 10 ft wide) as described here in this Houzz article: https://www.houzz.com/magazine/micro-additions-when-you-just-want-a-little-more-room-stsetivw-vs~1165961?share=clipboard The propane tank at the end, because it's an eyesore and there aren't other good places to put it, would only have a sort of lean-to over it at the end of the bump-out, it would not be enclosed in the actual bump-out but would be covered by the extended roof over the bump-out, and maybe have a hinged door on the front/visible side (if needed for access/ventilation) and be open around the corner to the right of this pic. Charlie, I understand what you're saying re: the need for excavating, but I don't think that's possible on this part of this lot due to extensive rock ledge here, hence why there was a crawlspace to begin with. I live in New England so footings have to be pretty deep, yet many of the lots where I am allow only for a shallow dig as they're pretty ledge-y. For additional perspective, this house is on a hill above a curved driveway, and this facade is the first thing people see. The rest of the house isn't that visible from the street besides a side view that looks (IMO) better than this. The reason for considering this bump-out now is mainly that the timing is right, as we unexpectedly had to repair some crawlspace joists due to drainage issues, and it will really improve a project already in the works, which involves in part dividing the 13.75 ft x 19.5 ft room there (to the right of the door in this picture) into two bedrooms of 11.5 x 9.75 ft each with closets filling the rest of the 13.75 side, which is fine but a little small for bedrooms. With the bump-out, these bedrooms would both be a reasonable average bedroom size (more like 130-135 square feet each vs less than 120 plus closets, and currently the house is a 3 bedroom with one of the bedrooms just shy of 10 x 10 ft, good for a home office but not great for a bedroom. There are already two doors to that big room (but no closets), as if someone before me envisioned it as two bedrooms that never got completed and just need a divider wall and closets. So, I see it as completely a pretty confusing objective of past owners as to how they imagined the home would be used (the master bedroom in the house, for comparison, is about 250 square feet with two 10 ft reach-in closets, so as it is now, the house has one huge bedroom, one medium-sized bedroom, and one tiny bedroom, and just doesn't make sense. I don't plan to sell this house any time soon, and don't have kids -- but if I did, I can't imagine they wouldn't be fighting over the fact that one kids' bedroom is more than twice the size of the other, and that this wouldn't be a major issue if I ever do sell. Again, I get this is all confusing and sounds massive in scope but the objective is really to reconfigure space that was already added on here as a seemingly not-well-planned addition, and to add this microaddition bump-out for slightly more space and a better floorplan. I have looked through old deeds and town permits to figure out when/why this addition was added, but no luck with that either, it's just clear from the crawlspace and attic that it happened after this house was built (and I think the space was originally an attached garage). A lot of DIY clearly went on here before I acquired the property -- some really well-done, some poorly planned and executed.