House Tour

For those of you who don't know, Matt and I built an 800 sq. ft. garage/apartment on our 18 acres of land.  That is the short term plan.  The long term plan is to build a "real" house attached to the garage/apartment (think "bonus room over garage" or "guest house").  We are doing it in that order because we can build the apartment quickly and fairly cheaply and get out of our rental house.  Also, we still don't know exactly what we want for our "real" house.  We have a pretty good idea, but no specific floor-plan.  And since there is a possibility we could be there for the long haul, we want to make sure it's right.  What we do know is that it will be a farmhouse style with a big porch and full walk-out basement.

We thought we could do all the work ourselves, but two years later, we realized we don't have the time or man-power to get this done in any reasonable time frame (it took us a year to do the foundation).  So we hired subcontractors.  We hoped to be moved in during summer/fall 2011, but finally got moved in December 2011 (weeks before new people would be occupying our old house). We still have LOTS to do!  The house wasn't even finished when we moved in.  There were no shelves anywhere to unpack our stuff.  Stay tuned to all we have in store.  We have lots of plans.  Welcome to our home!

First, the upstairs floor plan (downstairs is just a garage with half-bath):

The exterior view (click here for more on the frame and siding):

(Click here for more on the grass.)

Garage:

                        


Deck:

 












View of "backyard":


Going upstairs:








From the office area facing the kitchen (click here for more on flooring, concrete countertops, installing or painting cabinets, and open shelving):














From the living room, facing the pantry/dining area:





Living room:

From the kitchen facing the living room/office area:











From the dining room, facing the living room:









Hallway:
 






Bathroom, vanity side (click here for more on the tile floor, tile shower, or built-in shelves).











Towel hook made by Matt.



Bathroom shower side.  Click here to read more on how we tiled the shower:

Master bedroom (dark dressers have since been painted light gray):









Master closet.

Other half of master bedroom facing the 2nd bedroom:







2nd bedroom:

"Attic" space (accessible from 2nd bedroom).  You can actually stand up in it once you go through the short door.  Still need to put up plywood and put down flooring so we can start using this as storage and get boxes out of the garage.

**Update** This is done and is now full of boxes.



Hallway facing back to living room: