New Houses For Everyone I have even more good news. Not only am I now building a new house (Ryan Homes, Vienna floor plan) in Brunswick Hills, but my buddy Dave Derecskey just bought a 5.88 acre house in Bainbridge. His new house needs things to be replaced and probably updates and additions, but at least he won't be as cramped as I will be on my 0.15 acres.

So, most people won't care much about anything after this point of my post, but I wanted to document the unique specifications we have selected for our house. Egads, this might get boring after the first few that you read.

We have chosen an almond siding with white trim, dark green shutters, and a some indescribable dark burnt-blue door. We chose the same neutral tannish carpet for the entire house. The driveway is on the right side of the house leading to an attached garage. If you go into the front door you can either go up the stairs which will be right in front of you or to your left into the great room. The wood-floored foyer is open through the 2nd floor. If you walk through the great room you will find the morning room to your slight right and the kitchen all the way to your right. The interior comes painted white and any painting must be done on your own. The morning room is the only room we have picked out colors for already. It will probably contain wicker furniture and have a lime green paint to give this already bright room an even more vibrant look. The morning room has a sliding door leading to our tiny backyard. A peninsula island counter separates the morning room from the kitchen. The morning room and kitchen have wood floors as well, and oak cabinets. We went with a dark counter top and we will have all black kitchen appliances (to go with our black toaster and microwave we already have). Upon entering the kitchen there are stairs going downstairs to the basement. If you continue to the end of the kitchen you will find three options: The laundry room, the powder room (a half bathroom), and a door to the two car garage.

If you go up to the 2nd floor you will find the main hall bathroom at the top of the stairs. We upgraded to white cabinets because they look nicer with the other white parts of the bathroom. If you turn to the right the short hallway leads to three bedrooms...nothing special about them. If you turn to the left you get to the master bedroom. This bedroom has it's own bathroom, a walk-in closet and a linen closet (that we'll probably just use for clothes).

If you go down to the basement we have excavated the provided crawl space into a full basement. We opted to not finish it at first, but we plan on doing so after we get resources saved up to do so. I actually can't wait... For now the great room will be the "living area", but eventually I would like to put my big speakers, a big TV, and video games all down in the basement.

Anyway, that's the house. Behind us is a "privacy ridge", but that's only a few feet tall. Over the ridge are the backyards of some slightly nicer homes on a culdasac. We almost bought a lot with a creek in the backyard (and we thought of building a little bridge over it), but that lot cost more and we decided otherwise. They break ground in January and we should be able to move in before May.  ¶ 10:10 AM