Finally moving again!

Yup, I am sure you are all just as shocked as they are that I have updated this!

Building...

A few years ago I helped make some picture plaques for some young women. I had volunteered my husband ti cut all the wood. Well he is a busy guy and didn't have time to do it so I had to do it. That was one of the best things that could have happened! I found I love working with wood. So a few months later I built a bunk bed that was a learning piece. I used the wrong typed of wood and wet wood so when it dried it cracked and fell apart. So next I built an entertainment center for my Mom for Mother's Day. (My Dad and sisters helped pay for it). Since then I have loved to build everything. I am working on building one for myself now.  

 My Mom's entertainment center.

 

I finished the first piece for me.

 

I did have two adorable helpers.

Flooring

The whole house had laminate flooring when we moved in. I have really missed carpet especially in the bedrooms and living room. Its just soft and warm and nice to sit on. Rugs just don't compare unless you want to spend a lot of money in which case you mine as well just get carpet. So I am so excited that we now have really soft carpet in the living room. We have all loved it.

 

I tore up the laminate and saved the full pieces to fix some of the floor in other areas.

 

We also tore out this random tile by the front door and used the saved laminate to replace it.

 

I think this looks so much better!

I love the look and colors of the carpet in the room. It looks so much brighter.

 

What have we done?

I drew out (don't mind my chicken scratch drawings) the plans for our house. The first picture is how the house used to be set up, with 4 bedrooms, a closed off kitchen and a opening formal dining and living room and three doors to the back of the house.

The second picture shows the current floor plans with the open kitchen and a closed off formal living room (AKA snob room), and a closed off living room and only one door to the back of the house. 

 

I will post soon the new potential plans for the addition. I say potential because anyone that knows us knows we will change it at least 2-3 times before we get around to doing it. We have a goal set to have the house paid off in just over a year then wait a year to save the money and do the addition So we have about 2 years before we are looking to do the addition. Let's see how well we do with this goal.  

 

I'm in Love!

I found a new inspiration for our house. I was driving the long way home one day to my house and caught this house out of the corner of my eye. I had to turn around and go see it. Funny story, I had a dream a while ago about our house and that we had it all finished and this is just about what it looked like! I hadn't talked to G about putting rooms on top of the garage he wants to build since I wasn't sure how it would look. I snapped these pictures and showed him and he loved the idea and the house too. We have talked about adding just fake dormer windows on the top of our house but now we do want to add bedrooms over the addition we will add. I hope this person doesn't mind me posting pictures of their beautiful house. And sorry for the rain on the window. This is proof it does rain here once in a while.