Our dream.

Have we ever shared the story of our dream with you?
Well, really it all started when Matt was a wee little boy. No really, when he was just a young child, he told his parents that he would build his first home. Fast forward 20+ years... we got married and living in FL. We began looking around the area for homes to buy. Each one just not quite right. We always seemed to want to move walls or something crazy. So one day, it finally clicked... Matt's dream was always to build his first house... was that too crazy?! Heck no! We immediately began looking for lots and finally found a neighborhood that we were sure God was leading us to. After looking at every possible option in the neighborhood... we knew which lot we ReaLLy wanted... but was not lookin likely. Well... it never fails that God is sooo good and we became the proud owners of the lot our house now sits on.

Time to plan...
We started by looking at the exterior of homes and came up with an idea of what we wanted to exterior to look like. Then we found the perfect kitchen idea... i know... what?! yes, we started the inside with the kitchen... and from there just designed the house around that. It was really neat to draw it out ourselves... draw, erase, draw, erase. We loved the final design we came up with. After just a few minor changes by the engineer, we had our "official plans." We teamed up with Grand Bay Construction and our dream slowly turned into reality.

So... we are all moved in!!! It is truly amazing and we feel so incredibly blessed. We have been hard at work since we moved in... finishing up some last touches, bringing in some furniture and decorating. Before we post some of these exciting things, I thought it might be fun to make a post with pictures from over the past 5 months as the house has all come together.

ALSO, just wanted to give another HUGE THANKS to all of our friends and family who have supported us along the way. Thank you for all your help and for all your prayers. We are so excited to have everyone come and check it out. So just swing on in, anytime!

Hope you enjoy the pictures... :)

here we go.

FINISHED! The house is ready for us to move in! Feeling so so so blessed and so excited!

Lots of pictures below. We took a video but having trouble uploading it... so will post later. 

Will keep you posted as we move in and finish up the little projects. 

I guess it's time to start planning our House Warming Party! woohoo! 

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Welcome!

Kitchen/Dining area

Living Room

Another view of kitchen

Staircase turned out soooo nice

Looking back down at living room

Upstairs railing and lanterns

view from the other side

guest bath vanity

Guest room

Other guest room

media/craft room

half bath homemade vanity

Office (back downstairs)

Master bedroom

Master bath tub

Master bath vanity

just a few finishing touches.

 Okay yall... we are in the home stretch! We are on schedule to get our C.O. (certificate of occupancy... i have learned so much about building haha) on Thursday!!! That means we could be moving in this weekend! Prayers are much appreciated! We are so thankful to be where we are and we definitely feel extremely blessed. Ready to share our new home with friends and family. Ready to see how God will allow us to use our home to glorify him.

 Also, super excited and thankful that Matt and I were able to spend many hours this week/weekend together, working at the house. However, we were so busy working... I didn't take as many pics as I probably should've. But we definitely had a blast doing it. Laughs, tears (the happy kind), and good memories that we will never forget.

We will share a sneak peak of some of our finishing touches below. Will be sure to take many pictures over the next few days as we finish up... and MoVe iN!!

Putting up our ceiling fans! Team work is good.

this pic is from a couple of months ago when we  came up with our idea for our pendant lights... check out the finished project below

Mason jar pendants!!! 

lights out so you can see them better. LoVe how they turned out!

Also worked on our bathroom vanities... we bought this side table at a yard sale and recently decided it would work perfect for what we had planned :)

half bath downstairs!!
we used a galvanized bucket as a half drop in/half vessel sink!
(just missing the faucet and a patch of paint on the wall)

working on the guest bathroom vanity...

finished product turned out perfect!!!

appliances also got delivered! YaYyyy!

Excited to share so much more in the weeks to come as we get settled in! Thanks for checking in :)

so close.

Yes, it has been wayyyy too long since our last post. And, yes, a WHOLE lot has happened at the house in the last 3 weeks. We are so close to being finished... it is scary.

Let's see... we left off with the cabinets going in. Since then, my wonderful husband has been hard at work. He did an AMAZING job finishing up all the interior trim and the ceilings. You will see pictures below, but when we started building the house and decided to vault the ceilings, he came up with a really neat idea to put wood on the flat parts of the ceilings upstairs. The pictures don't do it justice. It looks awesome... and I know all the hard work he put into them sure did pay off. 

We have been blessed with many people who have been such a tremendous help. A huge thanks to Ed Abraham who has been there with Matt for crazy long hours. 

What else? Hmmm... The interior is painted! Can't believe how good the colors turned out. The kitchen counters and sink are in. Floors went in. Hardwood throughout downstairs. Travertine in both bathrooms. And carpet in the two upstairs bedrooms. It has really brought everything together and looks awesome. Both showers are finished. AND our bathtub arrived. This is definitely my new favorite spot in the house :)

We have a lot of pictures to share... here are just a few of the highlights

we have porch lights :)

of course he had to try the stilts

Living room

french doors in the office (the paint is actually a blue but this pic looks green?)

kitchen counter and sink

remember the teak antique door we found?

 

assembling our tub

my new favorite place in the house :)

Master bathroom

Master bedroom

putting up the doors!

Upstairs media room

checkin out the view

wood ceilings upstairs

guest bedroom

guest bedroom #2

so proud of my hubby's work

guest bath

guest bath