I was going through the fifty-eleven-hundred* photos I have of new windows in our house, and window-themed clichés wouldn’t get out of my head – most notably the whole “eyes are the windows to the soul” one, only my brain kept twisting it up into “windows are the eyes of the soul.” Which doesn’t make

Happy November, everyone! At some point THIS MONTH we’ll be moving into our new house! We’re not exactly sure which day it’s going to be, but we do know it will be before Thanksgiving.  I can’t even wrap my mind around it! It’s been such a whirlwind few months and soon I’ll be snuggled up next to

I’m so in awe of this entire house building process.  It seems like five minutes ago it was all just a patch of grass and a dream. And then trucks came in, did some digging, and poured the foundation that would anchor us to the Earth – in this spot – for the rest of our lives.

Here’s the deal. I understand that for most people, looking at floor plans and seeing the start of our new house getting framed out is kind of like looking at a pregnancy ultrasound. There’s some haze and it all looks sort of odd and uncertain, and you can make out a line here and there which might be

Alright, so the garage probably isn’t the sexiest part of a house, I’ll admit, but it’s super important. And with the layout of our house, the design of it was super duper important. With the shape of our lot, our garage needed to sit in front of our house and turned, giving our overall footprint more of an

Even though there are three levels to our house (basement, main floor, and upstairs) we consider it a “1 & 1/2 story” home because we chose to build on top of less than half of our main floor. A main floor master suite was a “must have” for G which brought our first floor up to 1,800 square