Inside of the new house. (Pic heavy!)

[GreenPartyVoter]

These pics were shot with a wide angle lens, so there's a bit of fun-house effect going on. The ceilings aren't vaulted, and the rooms aren't nearly as long as the camera makes them look. Sorry for any pics which are incorrectly oriented or weirdly sized. Photobucket is giving me a hard time with that today! (Pics and videos of of the house being set on the foundation are in their own threads.)




Front door, Counter and floor samples.



Kitchen




Dining and Living Room




Linen closet and Laundry room




Guest Bath




Office (study) and Computer room (den)




Bedroom 2 and Bedroom 3




Master Bedroom




Master bath




Closet, shower, water closet




Attic

[graywarrior]

1. Wow. that looks amazing!

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. It's like a mansion compared to this poor old trailer. :^D

[graywarrior]

3. How long til you move in?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. At least a month. There's still electric and heating/plumbing to finish (septic too) and a

roof and bay window to build, plus painting, tiling, and hardwood. Oh, and there's no stairs into the basement yet. How could I forget that? :P

[graywarrior]

7. Let's have a party!

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. That would be fun! :^D

[graywarrior]

19. What area of Maine are you near?

[Tallulah]

5. WOW !!!

Very nice !!

You must be ready to explode with excitement. Beautiful place, beautiful outside. Love that attic.

It's nice to see something good happening. I hope it's everything you and yours dreamed of.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. So far, it's amazing! Ironically I want so much to share the experience with my parents, but

if they were still here we wouldn't be getting the house. (I like to think they are aware of what's going on, but it's not the same as having them over to visit. Mom would have loved helping me decorate, and for that matter so would have hubby's mom. :()

[Tallulah]

11. That's sad yet loving

Enjoy it. They would want that for you.

I mean it, that's a nice house.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Yes, they would. :^) I will definitely enjoy living there, and I have many items I've inherited from

em to help decorate the place so it will feel like they are around.

[Tikki]

14. Oh sweetie, have a special night...just you and the hubby and..

the boys and invite the loving warmth of the memory of your parents to join in.

Just think the boys will be bringing their families to this home
and so on...

Beautiful home.


Tikki

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Thank you, Tikki. That's a lovely thought. I think we will do that!

[backwoodsbob]

6. love the bathroom

looks really nice.

any thoughts yet on the landscaping?

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Thanks! We had a hard time trying to work that master bath out. The original

generic plans for the house had it looking like this:





But I didn't like the idea of walking into the vanity, we wanted a private water closet, and the shower was not a good fit for a woman of my size. So we sacrificed a lot of the walk-in closet to get that shower and water closet.

As for landscaping, other than sodding some of the front and back yard for the kids to have play space, we haven't really decided on much. I have perennials I am going to move with me, but we are having trouble agreeing on shrubs and so forth. I think we will have to check out some landscape places and see what we like and what will survive our family. :) In theory there will be a patio out back. I guess we will have all winter to figure that one out.

[quakerboy]

27. Yall must have pushed out the sides

Made the total length and width bigger? Yours seems to be about half again bigger over the whole house.

I like your design better than the stock. Huge Walk in closets seem odd to me. I always want to put my bed in the closet, and have the bedroom proper to use for something else.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Yep. We went up to a 32 foot width. The base model is 28, and I know from living in a 14 ft wide

trailer that the rooms are pretty narrow. An extra 2 feet makes a huge difference. :)

I agree with you on the closet thing. I don't own a lot of clothes and I wasn't planning on storing other things in there, except towels and linens, so I didn't need a monster closet. I have two nice dressers and plenty of room in the bedroom for most of my clothes anyway.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. Forgot to say there's gonna be a hammock, just not sure where yet. :^D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. won't be long now .. you will be in soon. Enjoy!

you have a basement, too, IIRC.

lots of storage space is a good thing :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Thank you. Yes the kids will finally get to have the ping pong and pool tables they

have always wanted. :D

[applegrove]

13. Are you doing a checkerboard pattern with the tiles in the foyer? Cause that would be gorgeous!

I love floorplans. That's the main reason why I read the NYtimes magazine.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. That would be very pretty! I think, though, the tile hubby bought is grey, although he

was toying with the idea of doing a pattern of some sort. I bet it all depends on how rushed he feels to get into the house! LOL Might end up with plain old tile if he's really anxious to move in.

[struggle4progress]

21. These are so much fun!

:)

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Thank you! It's really been an adventure. :^)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. It just looks wonderful, my dear GPV!

I love watching new houses go up...

When we built ours, I was here every day, taking pictures! I must have taken 1000! (Our house is a little bigger!)

I'm really happy for all of you...

You have waited a very long time for this, and moving in will be so sweet!

:hug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. Thanks, Peggy! We're having a lot of fun documenting this, and someday when we

are grandparents we will get to show the grandkids how Nana and Grampy's house got built. :D

[MilesColtrane]

24. No rumpus room?

If I were building a house, I'd want a separate room for my rumpus.

[pacalo]

26. My married son has what he calls his "man room". He has all his music equipment

-- guitars, drums, amps -- in there, which is on the other side of his house, away from everything else.

"Man room" -- :rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. LOL Kids get a game room downstairs, and hubby is making a little Malt Shoppe down there as well.

Not sure how much rumpus there will be in there, tho. :D

[pacalo]

25. I'm so thrilled for you! And it's really coming along quickly (maybe not fast enough for you)!

It looks like a lot of thought was put into the plans. You've got lots of kitchen cabinets, lots of big windows in the living/dining rooms, laundry room with utility sink, a nice master bathroom, PLUS a spacious attic AND a basement!

Looking good. I look forward to all your updates, so thanks for posting!

[Kali]

29. How exciting!

Love the light in the kitchen and your front door is beautifull.

[GreenPartyVoter]

33. Thank you. :^) We saw that door and fell in love right away.

[Gormy Cuss]

30. Any kitchen with a window over the sink is a fine kitchen.

You'll have a real pantry too!

Your boys must be really excited about all that new elbow room too. That's probably the worst thing about trailers -- they're so economical on space that there's usually not much room for little kids to play or older kids to have some privacy.

[GreenPartyVoter]

35. The trailer was fine when the kids were small. We are lucky in that it's an

80's model, so it's very efficient in how the space is laid out. (Not like the old ones with the long skinny hallway.) But yeah, the kids are very ready to have their own rooms now. :D

[snacker]

31. It's beautiful...

thank you so much for sharing this wonderful adventure with us. Enjoy!

[GreenPartyVoter]

36. Thank you. :^D