My husband and I bought our first home, which was initially a small 1,100 square foot ranch, with the intention of fixing it up little by little. Within weeks of starting ourhomeoncolonial, we found out we were expecting our first child and everything, including home renovations and ourhomeoncolonial, was put on pause. We essentially had to decide whether to find a home that would accommodate us and our growing family or dive right into making our house our dream home. And that’s what we did — we demolished all but a wall of our home and built a colonial style home of our dreams.