Getting to the Fun Part!

Okay, so the time has come that the house is moving right along and it's time to pick out fancy things, like fireplaces and front doors. Yay! The thing is, we didn't have a fireplace in this house and that was totally our mistake! I thought, why do we need a fireplace when it rarely gets cold here in TX?! Duh!!! For Christmas! I have always regretted not having one, especially when it came time to hang stockings, so I made sure we are having one in our new house.

I was looking online last night and found this beautiful fireplace thing you can buy. I don't know what they're called. LOL! Isn't it so pretty though? We thought we would build bookshelves on each side of the fireplace and hang the TV above it, but we aren't sure yet. Do y'all have fireplaces and if you do, do you have your TV above it or someplace different? Do you have built-ins around it? Feel free to share! I need help because I am not a decorator at all!!!!

I'm still deciding on the front door I want. Tomorrow, we are going over there to look at the living room because it is narrower and longer than our current one and I'm not sure how we're going to arrange our furniture with where the fireplace is going. I'm actually kind of concerned about it and I don't know how we missed not making sure the design would work. Ugh! This is just what you run into when you design your own house. Because there are no models or real pics to look at and you're trying to look at plans and picture how big things will be in real life and my mind just doesn't work that way. Ha! We don't want to put furniture and block the view where the back windows are going to be, but when you walk in the front door, you're basically in the living room almost and then both of the other walls have door ways and things like that, so we don't have a lot of wall space. I might have to have some of you decorators help me out!

You can sort of see what I mean. These will be windows on the back wall and to the right of them is an archway that leads to the kitchen. On the left corner of this pic, you can see where the fireplace will be, so I don't know where our couch, loveseat, and chair are going to go without blocking doorways, etc. And Morgan said we need to decide now so they can do the built-ins for however wide the fireplace will need to be and for shelving or whatever we want. I'll see if I can get a better pic tomorrow.
This picture is from today. I couldn't believe how awesome our framers are! We were astonished that they worked every day, even through the harsh weather we had the past few days. Now we can really see what the house is going to look like and it's so fun seeing it come to life! The girls rooms are on the left, the dining room is to the right of the front door, and of course that's the garage up front. We had to put the garage up front since our lot is narrow. Our bedroom, kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom are all behind the garage on the right side of the house. And of course, the living room is in the middle behind the front door.
This house is going so much faster than when we built our current house. The race is on to simplify and get rid of what we don't use/need and to figure out what furniture we are going to use in which room. We will no longer have a playroom for toys or extra storage space, so it really is necessary to take only what we really need and use. I'm excited because I am the opposite of a hoarder.......I love to get rid of things. I hate clutter and I hate holding on to things, unless they have sentimental value. Things make me stressed and nervous and I am so looking forward to having a house that I can keep clean and where everything must have a definite space and place. I have found that the more room you have, the more room there is for bigger messes. Ha! I love cozy spaces and this house is going to be so much more like a home.

Everyone keeps asking us what we are going to do if our current house hasn't sold. Well, we will do what we have to! What choice do we have?! We prayed and trusted the Lord with this decision. We asked Him to please close the door on this if it wasn't a wise decision. And what He did was He closed the door on the house next door to this lot and opened up this lot for sale at a price that is half of what lots normally go for on the bay. We kept praying and He kept opening doors and we will do whatever we have to and keep trusting Him as we do it!