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
You guys – I have a poncho problem. The first issue being that ever since I received this cable knit poncho in my latest Stitch Fix I’ve been walking around saying, “Nacho poncho!” Which then reminds me of a quote from the movie Saving Silverman that my sister Brittny and I have been giggling over
Have you guys seen the whole Vogue “73 Questions” thing on YouTube? They’re so interesting! Basically, Vogue gets a little camera crew and an interview guy, and they ask celebrities 73 rapid fire questions while they’re hanging out at their homes or on set getting ready for an appearance…that sort of thing. This is how I
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
Next up on our new construction framing adventure – first floor interior walls! This was the point in our construction process when we could truly start to get a “real life” sense for our how main floor was going to be laid out and how it was going to feel. Our first floor is pretty much
One of the first things we had to decide when building our dream home (after floor plans, of course) is our exterior colors and materials. G and I had already spent the past year dreaming about our “dream home” exterior so this was actually a relatively easy decision for us – surprisingly we were on the same page! I say
We have walls! I loved watching the framing stage of our new home construction. It’s so interesting to see how everything goes up and gets put together, and before you know it you’ve got the bones of your new house in place! Yesterday I shared the start of our framing with the lower level, and now
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