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