- You’ve built a drive-thru car wash in the second slot of your 2-car garage.
- You’ll use any excuse to add a new room onto the house, including needing more space for the newest addition to the family — your daughter’s goldfish Buffy.
- Even Martha Stewart has deemed your multi-level, hydraulically-operated kitchen is “a bit overdone.”
- You’ve converted the standard stall shower into a “bathing waterfall,” complete with tropical plants.
- Your rear-projection, surround-sound TV room can comfortably seat 43, and you’re trying to make arrangements with Universal for first run films.
- Your dog has a duplex dog house out back, even though he sleeps in bed with you every night.
- The local building department says you can’t add a fourth floor to a house that was originally zoned as a single level dwelling.
- You bought and demolished your next door neighbors house to make room for an Olympic size swimming pool.
- You’ve installed a small freight elevator going to your attic.
- You’ve built an FAA-approved helipad on your roof.
© 1996 Sandy Lindsey