Six month, 800-square-feet addition requires move to a temporary residence
By LORI JOHNSTON
For the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/24/2008
The decisions seemed endless.
Hire a contractor. Arrange financing. Find a temporary home. Choose what stays and what goes. Switch the utilities. On and on.
t took months of preparations for Mike and Kim Pascale to reach the point of beginning the remodel of their 60-year-old Decatur home. The couple and daughters Miller, 7, and Ella, 6, moved out of their 2,000-square-foot house last month. They will live in a townhome in Glenwood Park for a year, while they wait for a renovated kitchen and a new family room, bedroom, laundry room and wet bar.
"Honestly, we do feel a little displaced," Mike said. "But the timing of it with school ending, I think, has helped a little bit. We're not shuttling kids to school. It's a cool place to live — it wasn't depressing moving out."
The couple bought their three-bedroom, two-bath home as newlyweds in 1998, not realizing that it was close to a strong elementary school, Fernbank, and near family-friendly amenities like the Fernbank Museum of Natural History and Venetian Pools. Two kids later, they set out to find a bigger house and were disappointed to find what Kim labeled "re-muddled" houses that had updated, but odd, floor plans, or others that needed hundreds of thousands of dollars of work. They figured, "Why not go ahead and renovate what we have?"
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