We have been considering ways to upgrade our old farmhouse. It was built in the 1880s and remodeled 1940-41.

Now that we own our own home (after renting it for a number of years), I feel torn about what I have wished for and what is good for our budget and what is good for our environment. Do we really need to add more square feet? Can we modify what we already have and still get that breakfast nook I long for? ...that separate shower, rather than standing in the tub with our head hitting the ceiling in the upstairs bathroom in our one and a half story house?