Dream Home
This June will mark 3 years in our house which is hard for me to believe. On one hand, I feel like we've certainly lived in this house which is evident when you look at the fact that each room has furniture specific to the purpose of the space.
Unlike the time when we had cabinets galore in our family room
and a kitchen in our dining room.
Now with a bedroom soon to be occupied by a new family member I certainly feel like we're coming into our own in this house.
On the other hand, I can't believe it's been 3 years. When we bought this house we knew we weren't looking for new construction mostly because we wanted something in an established neighborhood. The location of our home is exactly where we wanted to be and in many ways it still is my "dream home" location. However, after replacing the roof and repairing the foundation all within a matter of 1 calendar year, the thought of owning a brand spankin new home in which we are the sole owners and know every nook and cranny sounds more appealing now that it did 3 years ago. I'm sure you're probably wondering if we have plans to move in the near future which could be the reason for this post but the truth is we don't. Our house suits our needs perfectly well right now, we feel very comfortable in it, we still love it and its location, and the thought of moving and taking on a new mortgage may send me into early labor (which I've heard you should avoid :). Plus, with a lot of "new" things happening in our lives right now I find great comfort in knowing we have a home that's ours and that won't change until we want it to.
So no, we have no plans to move any time soon. I do however find myself daydreaming about the things I'd love to change about this house if we had an unlimited budget or were planning to stay in this house forever.
Take the backyard for example...
We'd love to level off the backyard so it's a bit more "usable". Nothing too fancy, but a flatter surface for playing and running around would be lovely. Too bad landscaping is crazy expensive. On the bright side though, without doing this our backyard is still one of my favorite things about this house. I love our deck and I love all the trees.
The Hall Closets
We actually have a linen closet and a coat closet that sit right next to each other in the hallway leading to our bedrooms. We also have a coat closet in our entryway so we don't really need a 2nd coat closet on our main floor. I'd love to knock the wall down between these two closets to make it one giant closet with lots of organization within making both a little more functional for our needs.
Our staircase and main level floors...
This is actually one things we're hoping to accomplish while we still live here and hopefully soon enough that we can actually enjoy the work rather than sprucing it up to sell. The white curvy wrought iron railing is so not our style (that you can barely see here but you get the picture) and although we don't pay much attention to it day to day it's admittedly the thing we probably hate the most about this house. That and the carpet on our stairs. Oh how we hate that too. We have a raised ranch home so every.single.time anyone comes into the house, the staircase is used. Who on earth ever thought it was a good idea to put carpet on stairs that see so much traffic every single day? I'll never know. Lastly, we'd really love hardwood floors on the main floor instead of carpet. Jackson loves the carpet but Mike and I think hardwood floors would look just lovely. We'll have to see where our finances stand when the dust settles a bit after having a baby but like I said, this is something we'd love to do while we still live here.
I'm just as curious as anyone to see how long we do end up staying in this house and which projects we do tackle while we still live here. We shall see... slow and steady wins the race right?!
Unlike the time when we had cabinets galore in our family room
and a kitchen in our dining room.
Now with a bedroom soon to be occupied by a new family member I certainly feel like we're coming into our own in this house.
On the other hand, I can't believe it's been 3 years. When we bought this house we knew we weren't looking for new construction mostly because we wanted something in an established neighborhood. The location of our home is exactly where we wanted to be and in many ways it still is my "dream home" location. However, after replacing the roof and repairing the foundation all within a matter of 1 calendar year, the thought of owning a brand spankin new home in which we are the sole owners and know every nook and cranny sounds more appealing now that it did 3 years ago. I'm sure you're probably wondering if we have plans to move in the near future which could be the reason for this post but the truth is we don't. Our house suits our needs perfectly well right now, we feel very comfortable in it, we still love it and its location, and the thought of moving and taking on a new mortgage may send me into early labor (which I've heard you should avoid :). Plus, with a lot of "new" things happening in our lives right now I find great comfort in knowing we have a home that's ours and that won't change until we want it to.
So no, we have no plans to move any time soon. I do however find myself daydreaming about the things I'd love to change about this house if we had an unlimited budget or were planning to stay in this house forever.
Take the backyard for example...
We'd love to level off the backyard so it's a bit more "usable". Nothing too fancy, but a flatter surface for playing and running around would be lovely. Too bad landscaping is crazy expensive. On the bright side though, without doing this our backyard is still one of my favorite things about this house. I love our deck and I love all the trees.
The Hall Closets
We actually have a linen closet and a coat closet that sit right next to each other in the hallway leading to our bedrooms. We also have a coat closet in our entryway so we don't really need a 2nd coat closet on our main floor. I'd love to knock the wall down between these two closets to make it one giant closet with lots of organization within making both a little more functional for our needs.
Our staircase and main level floors...
This is actually one things we're hoping to accomplish while we still live here and hopefully soon enough that we can actually enjoy the work rather than sprucing it up to sell. The white curvy wrought iron railing is so not our style (that you can barely see here but you get the picture) and although we don't pay much attention to it day to day it's admittedly the thing we probably hate the most about this house. That and the carpet on our stairs. Oh how we hate that too. We have a raised ranch home so every.single.time anyone comes into the house, the staircase is used. Who on earth ever thought it was a good idea to put carpet on stairs that see so much traffic every single day? I'll never know. Lastly, we'd really love hardwood floors on the main floor instead of carpet. Jackson loves the carpet but Mike and I think hardwood floors would look just lovely. We'll have to see where our finances stand when the dust settles a bit after having a baby but like I said, this is something we'd love to do while we still live here.
I'm just as curious as anyone to see how long we do end up staying in this house and which projects we do tackle while we still live here. We shall see... slow and steady wins the race right?!
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