The Superstitious Kind

Our New House Elevation

So we have been holding off updating the biggest issue going on in our lives out of a fear of jinxing it. I understand that given we are both college educated professionals that seems a little silly, but this is such a big deal that we didn't want to take even a silly chance that it would fall apart. So once again. we are moving. We are building a new house on a vacant lot at the other end of our neighborhood. 


We sold our house, just as we were getting ready to pull it off the market and do another addition. It just went thru yesterday and finalized today. The new owners are allowing us to rent back for up to six months while we get the house built, so we don't have to pack twice, move twice etc. It really works out to be a perfect situation for us. So as of yesterday, we are renters. The pictures are of our front elevation of our new home and a shot of our new lot. 

Welcome Home!

This was a tough decision, whether to relocate or not. We are moving away from the Merc and a little further from school for the kids, but we know a lot of families in our new neighborhood and we'll be able to get a better laid out floor-plan for us (no more treadmill in the Dining Room - no more Dining Room actually). We are currently finishing up the floor-plan and getting it approved by the town and county. We started on selections today and it's A LOT to go over. We have done a remodel before, an addition before and a new kitchen before, but this is our first time doing an entire house. We are both excited and a little nervous. I am able to visualize things a little bit better than Marisa can and she has a tendency to get overwhelmed by the minutia, so we are trying to spread out the selections over a longer time period. 


The design process has been a lot of fun. Our builder is a custom home builder and we were able to sit down with him and his architect and go over what we needed and wanted and were able to come up with a great floor-plan that really works for our life. We have no formal Dining Room (we don't use ours now), a downstairs Master Bedroom with a walk-in shower and all three kids rooms are upstairs and all connected (Jake and Tanner share a bathroom), and Jake's and Faith's doors are right next to each other. Faith has her own bathroom (her brothers are pigs). The kids have a Basket Ball court out back and I have a nice big garage. 


We are meeting tomorrow to finalize the selection details and the contract and then they start digging. According to our builder, the house will be ready in April (which means June most of the time), but we're still within our 6 month rental window. Wish us luck that we get thru the process in once piece.