Adding on

The summer of 1956, when we were expecting Mary Ann, we knew that we would need more room for our growing family. Jim and Carolyn had been sharing the room on the East upstairs, and John and I used the west bedroom upstairs. The room off the living room was our den.
We built the extension behind the house that summer and fall. It didn't get finished in time for Thanksgiving, I remember. Behind the downstairs bedroom, we built a sewing room with three enormous closet rooms.
John and I moved downstairs. Carolyn moved across the hall, and Jim had his room to himself. Of course the den was great for the whole family, and the living room was the second entertaining area, I guess.
We made the small study room into a room for the baby. She and John Dan shared that room for a number of years.
We built a bar in the den with the window into the kitchen. We ate lots of meals on those bar stools. It was very convenient to cook and pass food out the window. But we still used the dining room often also.