When it's new, I'd like people who drive by to see it as the same house as the old one. I'd like people who visit to feel like they came into the same house they remember.
Today in our writers group I learned that a house in Northfield Falls on Turkey Hill Road (which had been a writer's grandparents' house) was bought fairly recently by a younger couple. They loved the house so much that (even though they had to take it down) they built it back the way it had been (with new energy efficiencies). The grandson couldn't put his finger on what was different, but something...then he learned of the rebuilding process there.
More open floor plan if possible. Use the wasted space in the room in the back to push the new kitchen back into to make room for more dining/living space. More windows to the south.
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