We cook a lot, and we like to hang out in the kitchen as a family. We want our new kitchen to be functional, set up for heavy, frequent use and to have eat-in options (bar stools at the island, possibly a breakfast nook). Here’s the full wish-list we gave to the architect… Kitchen wish-list: […]
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Designing the House: Mudroom
Come on in! This is the first look at what we want the inside of our house to be like. As far as we’re concerned, the mudroom is the most important room in the house, and we have given a lot of thought and consideration to this part of our house design. We’ve learned–from living […]
Designing the House: Form
I mentioned in my previous post that we created a “dream home” PDF and passed it to a local architect. She is currently working on a floorpan for us and we are very excited to see what she comes up with. I am sharing the contents of that document here over a series of posts. […]
Designing the House: Sense of Place
Hi there! It has been quiet on this blog lately, but that doesn’t mean we’re not busy working away on the future Trillium Hill Farm. The land is sleeping under a thick blanket of snow currently, and Mike and I have spent the winter dreaming, Pinning, planning, designing, re-designing, and thoroughly over-thinking our future house. […]
Building the Driveway
With a week of dry weather at the beginning of October, Mike was able to scrape and ditch the driveway. This is the very first step in building a driveway and a nice one to get out of the way this fall. It would have been impossible to do in the spring when everything is […]
Clearing the Building Site, Continued
Mike continued the clearing project all through September with his tractor and the rented bulldozer. In addition to making room for the house, we also needed to open up space for the big workshop barn that will sit on the edge of the field, and begin to carve out the driveway. Thankfully we had a […]
Clearing the Building Site
At the end of August the building site clearing project started. In order to determine exactly where our house was going to be, we had to first find out where the soil would perk. Since sandy soil is so rare on the peninsula, it’s extremely common for people to be forced to have holding tanks […]
A Blank Slate
So, we own some land! To us, this is a really ideal spot and we couldn’t be more excited to make this place our home. What next? We save up our money, and sell just about everything we own, so that we can build a house and a couple barns. And in the meantime, we’re […]
A Special Spot
This place…Fourty acres of beautiful south-sloping land, with 22 of the acres forested in pine and hardwoods, and the rest an old hay field. In the spring the forest understory is densely freckled with princess pine, fiddlehead ferns and wild flowers–most noticeably the strikingly white Trillium grandiflorum. We first saw the field during a random drive […]