It has been winter for a billion years, give or take, and we’ve officially arrived at the part of the season where even the winter-enthusiasts start to let a complaint slip now and then. They’ll try to disguise it, because they wouldn’t be caught dead complaining about this most magical, endless season… “If we would […]
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Designing the House: Bedrooms & Bathrooms
I don’t know about you, but we spend very little time in our bedroom(s). To some people, their bedroom is a peaceful oasis where they love to be, but for us it’s just a place where we keep our clothes and go to sleep. We’re cool with giving the bedrooms the least square footage, and […]
Designing the House: Living Room & Study
Hi there! We’re working our way through the “dream house” wish-list that we recently sent to a local architect, and today’s post is about the living/family room and the main-floor study. Mike and I have somewhat differing wishes for the living room, and were having trouble figuring out how to accommodate both of our wants […]
Designing the House: Kitchen
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: […]
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 […]