Thursday, November 13, 2008

Pictures of our house

It's getting close and every day is more and more exciting! I've been busy picking out colors, cabinets, countertops and every other little detail you can imagine. This part has been so fun for me and not too stressful. It nice if you already kind of know beforehand what you like. I have had to go back a few times and add something here or there. Today I decided I like the look of staggered kitchen cabinets. Surprise Debra! Good thing we haven't ordered them just yet. We set it up so that most of the square footage is on the bottom floor of the house. The bottom floor has everything including the master bedroom and an extra guest room w/private bath on the opposite end of the house. The upstairs consists of 3 bedrooms. One with it's own private bath and the other two with jack and jill, and each has walk in closets. There is also a laundry room upstairs and one downstairs in the master bedroom closet. Sound odd? Well it is different, but I think it's going to be nice to have. The one in our master will be just for our clothes and the one upstairs will be for the kids clothes. Then I won't have to drag clothes up and down the stairs each way... Plus, when we go to sell, we open the market up to older folks who can't or don't want to climb stairs to do their laundry.

We tried to build the home with the future in mind...so that when the kids marry there would be plenty of room for their families when they come home for the holidays. Three families will have the upstairs to themselves, and one family will have the huge room downstairs. Details that will be interesting to us later: We had them kick out the living room wall 3 feet; we added a 6 foot hall from the rotundra to the library, put a door instead of archway from dining room to the hall, and had them tear down and redesign an archway from the living to the family room. Really everything has gone smoothly and as planned. We go to the site just about every day and take pictures. It's getting more exciting as the house comes together. Here are a couple pictures we took along the way. The last five we took this morning.


what the lot looked like before foundation was laid

looking out at the gorgeous mountains that expand across the valley on the east side of the house

Foundation

Michelle's 1 yr supply storage room (back) and 3 month supply storage room (front)

courtyard and circular entrance

Shane's garage


circular staircase
circular driveway will go here
front of house

17 comments:

Shari Tate said...

HOW EXCITING!
When do you think you'll move in?
Our date is March/April....it's so fun, huh!!????!!

Sarah Stout said...

Wow... the house is looking so good! I'm so excited for you guys and I can't wait to hear more about the progress. :)

Shane and Michelle said...

Shari?? Oh wow that's right, I almost forgot you guys were building too! I can't wait to see your plans. Our move in date is Mar-April as well but first we have to sell our other house!

The Reese's said...

wow michelle it looks amazing!

Josh and Dana Carpenter said...

Hey things look great! We are doing our punch list walk-through today and move in next week. Great minds think alike! We also have two laundry rooms, one up and one down, circular drive and stair case. Looks awesome!!!!

Kelly said...

How exciting!

Curtis Crew said...

How pretty! One day I will know what it feels like to build until then I will relish your moment as if it were my own:) loves!

Lisa said...

Looks amazing, look forward to more updates!

Jennifer said...

wow...how exciting!!! I wish we could be building a house, hopefully in the next year! Good luck with everything and keep the updates coming.

Teresa said...

Very nice! I should come for a visit when it is all done :)

Cat said...

wow that looks so beautiful!!! good luck and hope someday we can actually see it lol.
Cat

Anonymous said...

That looks like so much fun! Good luck with it and getting your other house sold!

Lucky said...

This is absolutely a dream come true! WOWOWOW
I would love this for ourselves too!
Truly a slice of Heaven, right here on earth you two have..

The kids are going to so excited
they will be hiding from you every chance you get, so watch out!
Just beautiful honey and I wish you and Shane the very best
in enjoying your new home.

allgirls said...

WOW! looks like it will be nice, cna't wait to see pictures of the inside when its finished!

Natalie said...

I love it. It is so pretty. I really enjoy the view.

Anna said...

your home will be amazing! i love it already! keep posting pics of the progress!

Roxy said...

all i can say is i am extremely jealous. looks like it is going to be pretty amazing. let me know when you are going to be in town and for how long. maybe we'll see ya around. hope so!