house #2

as you may know, my husband and i have

built 2 homes

and remodeled 3.

we built house #1 just two years out of college.

you can see a glimpse of it here

this is house #2:

we finished construction on this house 

in the fall of 2003,

just three months before baby #3 was due.the exterior of this house is called

"rice grain" by sherwin williams.

the shutters and doors are

"urbane bronze".

sadly, 

i don't have ANY pictures of it while 

WE were living in it.

we had a "computer malfunction" that caused us to 

lose about 

two years worth of pictures.

i'm still sick over it.

seriously.

but, as luck would have it, a super nice couple,

bought it from the people we sold it to...

 then, she, and her husband

hired  me to do some design work,

and we have been good 

friends ever since.

small world.

anyway, since i don't have any pictures

of the house while we were living in it, 

i asked my friend to take 

some pictures 

of the inside of 

the/her house for me,

and she agreed.

*i will be posting those tomorrow.*

this is the floor plan that we started with.

it is called the "new albany"

by frank betz. 
i love frank betz plans.
both personal homes that we built were 
frank betz plans, as well as most of the
spec and several of the custom homes we built.
but, as you can probably tell from the exterior shot above, 
we had the floor plan flipped, so it would
work better on our lot.
so,the floor plan looked a little like this:

 after that, we "tweaked" it a bit.
added two feet here, and 4 feet there,
an additional garage stall, 
several built-ins, 
an outdoor fireplace,
and 2 sets of stairs:
one for the finished basement, and
another leading to 1200 sf of
unfinished space upstairs.
we also changed the laundry room,
(we quadrupled it's size, and added a window),
made the back bathroom a "jack and jill" bathroom,
changed the breakfast area,
and changed the location of several windows.

below is another photo of this same floorplan,
(unchanged this time) 
that we built as a spec house.

the exterior paint is

"magnolia white", by sherwin williams.

it's one of the prettiest, 

softest whites i've ever seen 

on the exterior of a home.

every time we would drive by it,

i would sigh. it was just that pretty.

*pictures of the inside of this home will

be posted tomorrow!*