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 […]
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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. […]