House Progress

The house is coming along really well. The brick is on and the sheet rock is going up. We picked out granite and possible paint colors today. We won't make any final decisions on interior paint until we've tested it on the walls. Whatever we get we have to live with for a long while so we had better like it.

At the risk of boring you to death, I'm going to try to explain (with the help of pictures) the layout of the house (since I'm not allowed to post the floor plan). If you feel like this might make you pull your eyelashes out please feel free not to read further. This is for those of you who, like me, are nosy curious about other people's houses.

This is not the house plan we were originally going to use. After a lot of contemplation, we realized that not only was our first set of plans too costly, but we would be over building for our neighborhood. So we adjusted, and still found a plan that we absolutely love.

Anyway here goes.

When you walk in from the garage you go straight into the laundry room. From there you go through a butler's pantry. To the right of the butler's pantry is the formal dining room. Straight through the butler's pantry is the kitchen.

This is the kitchen and breakfast area as seen from the butler's pantry. There will be an island in the middle of the kitchen, and the breakfast area overlooks the back yard. 

If you turn to the right after you enter the kitchen, you see a bar and the living room. On the far wall of the living room you can see a doorway. That leads into a hallway for three of the four bedrooms. Andrew's room is to the left as you enter the hall (I accidentally deleted that pic). Just to the right you'll find the two front rooms, and the second bath.

Allison's future bedroom. It looks out over the front yard, and is the biggest of the three extra bedrooms. Doesn't every girl need a big bedroom?

The front bedroom which will actually be an office/exercise room.

Back into the living room. This is facing the entryway. Don't you love the the dummy door? Just to the right and out of sight is the kitchen and the bar. And ahead to the right is the dining room which has two big openings into both the entry and the living area. 

The dining room also connects to the butler's pantry which gives easy access to the kitchen. And yes, I already told you that.

This is just outside the hallway that leads to the three extra bedrooms. Patrick is standing in the entry to the master suite. 

This is the master suite. To the left is a door leading to the back porch and to the right is the door into the bathroom.

These are both master bath pics. To the left will be my closet, my sink and vanity, and the shower, and straight ahead and to the right will be the (jetted) tub (glorious), Patrick's sink, and Patrick's closet. Two walk in closets . . . heavenly. Oh and the toilet . . . there will be a toilet in that little spot at the end of the tub.

This is from the living room looking onto the back porch/yard. The fireplace is just to the right of those windows and the breakfast area/kitchen just to the left. 

So there you have it. I'm sure you're all incredibly confused now since I seem to explain floor plans about like I give directions . . . horribly bad. Once the final product is done, I may give you a video tour. That's if I can stand to hear my voice on the video. ;)