Guess what! I made up a little facebook page earlier today! That way if you forget to stop by and check in on us here and instead decide to go hang out on facebook (don’t worry… I’m not hurt by it… okay just a little…) you can still keep up with the happenings at the Modern Home. YAY! Now we can totally be besties and gossip and braid each others hair.
Or something like that.
So click here and go *like* the Modern Home!
As you may have gathered (maybe because I said it in the last post) we’re back. Gone 4 months. Phew. Loooong trip! But wonderful to get to spend so much time with both our families.
Boxes are everywhere. We rented a moving truck and FINALLY brought home all of the stuff we’ve been storing at my mom’s house for the past 5 years. Boy does that feel good to have done! Check out the suspenders Ezra found in the back of the moving truck. He wanted to wear them while he helped move boxes. So cute!
Seeing as how we’re back in our house and seeing as how I haven’t been posting about the building process like I said I would be while we were traveling… your super sleuth skills may have deduced that we didn’t sell. Nearly 6 months after the initial offer and 3 closing extensions later, the whole thing fell through. The entire experience was extremely frustrating to say the least. I won’t get into the details here as far as the hows and whys of it falling through, but suffice it to say that Murphy has a cousin. If Murphy’s law is anything that can go wrong will go wrong then his cousin’s law is the most ridiculous outcome is the one that will happen.
So we may or may not be back in limbo now. It depends on what we’re willing to do. Things/plans might be a changin’. Stay tuned!
Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! We got back into town just a few days ago so we’ve been a little frazzled. We ended up missing the ward Trunk ‘r Treat so we were seriously tempted to skip the festivities all together, but alas we felt too much parental guilt over it so we decided to go ‘for real’ trick or treating. Apparently hardly anyone does that these days! We even had a guy out walking his dog ask us to come to his house a few blocks away – said he buys candy every year, but no one ever comes. Sad!
This year we went as hippies. (If you can count wearing a t-shirt as a costume.) Not as cool as our last minute lego costumes from two years ago unfortunately, but tie-dying a bunch of t-shirts was the easiest thing I could think to do last minute. Even Kenzie wore one. I really should have given her a bag – I think we would have collected way more candy! 🙂
Talk about eye candy! The photography and the interiors featured on the Glow are obsess worthy. Go check it out.
We’ve been tweaking the house plans the last couple of weeks – adding, simplifying, correcting the what-the-heck-were-we-thinking parts of the floor plan. We only had two weeks to draw up the plans initially (almost two years ago!) for the rehab we had planned, but since we’re now building from scratch and can take our sweet time, we’re finding there are quite a few modifications we’d like to have done.
We’re currently debating whether or not to add a roof deck. It could be awesome town up there, but there’s a catch: we have no idea if we have an ocean view or not. Kinda important otherwise what the heck is the point in a roof deck? (Other than nude sunbathing of course… which we don’t plan to do… *ahem*)
We aren’t that far back from the beach and our house should be tall enough, but our neighbors house is slightly taller than ours because they have a traditional high pitch roof. See?
We aren’t the only ones who had this kooky idea that we might have a view. When we brought our contractor to the lot one of the first things he said was that we MUST plan for a roof deck. We were so excited that he, too, thought we might have a view that we responded by jumping up and down and clapping.
Okay, maybe there wasn’t any jumping. Or clapping. We totally played it cool. On the outside at least…
There is a chance that if we place the roof deck in the front our our house that we might be able have an unobstructed ocean view. Like this:
Okay, stop judging my lame, disproportionate, and incorrect drawing. Yes, there’s a tree there that I didn’t draw and yes, umbrellas aren’t the size of houses, but you get the idea. Anyway, the only way to really know for sure whether or not we have an ocean view is to rent a cherry picker and raise it to the level of our future roof.
But that will take time and effort.
And money.
And we’re lazy.
And cheap.
So… we’ve put it on the back burner. We plan to wait until the house is framed to see what we got, then we’ll go from there. Fingers crossed!
BTW, if we do end up adding a roof deck we don’t plan to do anything too fancy. (Fancy = $$$) We’ll just do something simple like the top image. To which Brad laughs and says the top image is fancy. Whatevs dude. I’m saying we slap some decking and a little railing up there and call it good.
Top image via.
All other images: the Modern Home.