Our Home: Some Walls Go Up

It's been a busy two weeks around my house, and I owe you all and update on the progress of our house re-build. My goal is to share to weekly updates of our house progress every Friday. In case your a new reader to my blog, we lost the majority of our belongings and house due to a fire in July 2012 you can read more about the fire here. We are now in the re-building stage and very grateful for each day. 

We now have a garage! Since the was needed to be completely torn we decided to push it forward five feet to accommodate a small indoor laundry room / mud room and also widened the garage door opening. The garage door was once a measly 8 ft wide, which is really scary trying to park in side, it will now be 10 ft wide. Making it much easier to park my SUV inside the garage. 

Here's a closer look at our new laundry room space, our water heater will be placed outside the laundry room, which will help maximize space. 

The frame up of the laundry room / mudroom us coming together, I'll share my plans for this new space next week. 

Here's a view of our master bedroom addition. We are adding a bathroom, walk-in closet and french doors on to our room transforming our smallish bedroom into a true retreat. The opening in the middle of the space is where our french doors will be. Read more about the floor plan changes here. I've been having a creative block with our bedroom ideas for a while, but I think once I can walk in the space and it feels more real and apart of our home, then the ideas will come flooding in and I can share. 

Our new space is now enclosed in plywood, which will go on the outside our home and eventually be covered with new siding. I'll share what we selected for new siding soon.  

That's all the updates for this week, lots of progress will be happening this month and then we'll be in the home stretch mid March / beginning of April. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Our Home: Door Shopping

We recently went door shopping for exterior and interior doors for our home. We had lots of fun looking around at various door styles, there are so many door styles. For our home we were most drawn to front doors that let natural light in, have clean simple lines that fit well with the style of our 1950's rancher. I really liked that our old front door, had a glass middle panel that let lots of natural light in our home. For for door shopping trip we visited two local lumbar stores Meeks Lumbar and Homewood Lumbar. Both stores have door shops and were really helpful, we bought in a copy of our house plans to get an accurate door count & find the doors that would best work for our home. Below is a door from Homewood Lumber, but the glass design isn't exactly our style. 

Out of all the exterior doors we looked at, we are most drawn to the Craftsaman style doors from Jeld-Wen, the style is a good fit for our little rancher. For our interior doors we looked at four panel doors and craftsman three panel doors.

While there, I also glanced at french door glass options for our master bedroom addition. I love full glass panel french doors such a clean modern look. However french doors with glass panes are so classic and make me swoon.

We narrowed our exterior and interior doors down and will be making our selections this week. Looking forward to seeing how our new doors will look in our house. On Friday I'll be sharing two weeks worth of house construction updates, there's lots of progress happening at our home. 

What exterior and interior door styles do you like?