Our Home: Construction Begins

Hi Everyone! I planned on posting the changes we are making to our homes layout yesterday, but needed more time to play around and learn an online floor planner. I'll share the floor plan changes we've made next week. 

I plan on sharing on the construction progress on our home every Friday, along with doing an upcoming blog post about the process of re-building our home so far (insurance stuff, picking a contractor and making changes) Here's a reminder of how our home looked after being 

completely gutted

do to asbestos being discovered after the fire. In case your a new reader to my blog, we lost over 97% of our belongings and house due to a fire in July 2012 you can read more about the fire

here

. Lots of progress has started on our house this week, which has given me mixed emotions, I'm happy things are finally progressing but sad because a part of what we worked so hard to create is being tore down again. First it was seeing our house and belongings damaged do to the fire, then it was realizing almost all of our belongings would be a loss due to fire, smoke and asbestos damage. I mourned and those days and have tired my best to move on, but seeing the new demo hurt all over again. I know all that sounds strange, so please bear with me. 

Throughout

 this whole process of dealing with the house fire, loosing almost all our belongings I try and reminded my self daily, to count my blessings. 

Here's a reminder of how our home looked before the fire. We painted our

home a shade of gre

y (diy of course)

updated the lighting

,

rolled out sod

and painted

our front door a cheery red

. We loved how our little house looked, after giving it some serious TLC. In short we bought the uglist house on the block and worked to transform it. 

Our house now, the garage has been completely torn down. You may noticed my neighbors house is also being re-done, the fire started at their house still unknown causes ( it was empty at the time) and then spread to our home. Our neighbors house is coming along nicely. 

If you look closely you can see all the scars on the interior walls from the fire. 

View from the inside the kitchen looking onto what was once the garage.

This is the back our the house and our bedroom window, this is one of the changes we are making to our existing floor plan. I'm super excited about this change! 

Next week, I'll share our floor plan changes both big and small! Have you done in floor plan changes on your home ? Any ideas of what we are planning back there?

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Our Home: Living Room Ideas

We've been out of our house for several months now, which has left me time to plan and think about the rooms in our house and how we want them to work best for our family. We lost over 97% of our belongings to to a house fire in July 2012, you can read more about it here. It's crazy to think we've owned our house  4 years and soon we'll be moving back into our first house. I've learned life is crazy like that, you just never know what will happen. Regardless I'm thankful everyday and have learned to count my blessing daily. Our family has grown since buying our house, we added our beloved dog Mojo and had a wonderful baby boy now 19 months! Its time to re-think our living room situation. We are making changes to our house's layout, I'll share more about the changes on this week and more details as work on our home progresses. 
Before, I started putting ideas together for our living room, I looked on my Pinterest boards to what rooms really inspired me. I found myself drawn to living rooms that were open to the dining room & kitchen, lots of storage, with comfortable seating. I love the two living rooms below, the colors patterns and all the natural lighting flooding in.


I loved pops of yellow and navy in our living before, but this time around I'm changing up the color scheme. I'm envisioning grey walls, shades of blue, green and greys and lots of pattern! I've already purchased a few big and small items to fill our living room, I'm looking forward to seeing them in our space. I'm making a conscious effort to make sure we love each and everything piece in our home. Here are my ideas for our living room.
1. I plan on sewing our living room drapes and pillows. I fallen in love with several fabrics from Tonic Living, I'll be buying most of my fabrics for our home from them and also Fabric.com. My plan is to use the top two fabrics as pillows and the bottom fabric I'll sew curtains. I recently purchased the few pillow covers from West Elm (on sale) below, they are so pretty and I think they'll look amazing on in our living rooms. I also plan on sewing a few velvet pillows, I love this celery color from Fabric.com I love how well it works with the greys and blues. 



2.  I plan to do a mix of gord style table lamps and modern floor lamp. I really like the lamps I've seen at JCP, they have a great affordable selection. I love the Tripod lamp from Target, and its a great price. We are still picking out overhead lighting, so as soon as we've made our selection I will share. 

 3. For our coffee table, I keep going back and forth between an ottoman and a the white. I really like the above white coffee table, inspired from my pinned inspiration picture. 

 4. I'm super excited about our recent rug purchase. We bought bought a flat woven grey rug from RugsUSA its the perfect shade of grey for our living room. I wanted the rug to fill up our living room space, so we bought the biggest size they carry 7'6" x 9'6" I can't wait to see the rug in our living room, we decided if we don't like how it looks in our living room we'll place it in our bedroom. 

 For seating we went back and forth over sofa verses sectional. We liked the idea of a sectional because there would be plenty of seating, but after thinking about the size of our living room we knew it would take up way to much space. We've decided two sofas will give us plenty of seating and look nice in our small living room. After looking at a ton of options, we narrowed it down to two sofas, I'll share the two sofas we both like in an upcoming post. 

 As I mentioned above we are making some changes to the layout of our home and I'll share those changes on the blog this week and how they affect our living room. Happy Changes :) 

What do you think of our living room plans so far? Are you changing up any rooms in your home?
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