Wednesday, October 8, 2008

A friend has asked,"How big is your home?"

Well I was hoping to share some pictures of our home and will... but I will answer this question first and post pics maybe tomorrow.... We have lived here now for 9 yrs in WV. We have done 3 seperate additions.... Our main house when we bought it was new and had only 4 bedrooms and 2 and a half baths. We preoccuppied our home at first when the first addition was built and then settled 2 months later even though we had been in our home already. We added a huge sunroom- with a full basement and made our loft our 5th bedroom. We have a lg. eat in kitchen with an island and a seperate dining room area that is open... off to the side is our original dining room that I never use like that which is our school room and old playroom . It was our first living room until we added the sunroom. Then when Mary Kate had Ava we built for them an addition on the left of our home that is over 500 sq ft... it includes a walk in closet and room that is ready to made into a full bath but she uses it as Ava's bedroom. You go into it by a door from the school room. When she gets married we will have a nice master bedroom on the main floor if we like. Then we have been working on our other additions since April... Our old 2 car garage is now another 400 sq ft. playroom, guest room with the storage space turned into another bedroom.We then have added a 3 car garage... included in that is a lg. laundry room and full bath... kids can enter it from the garage and back yard.... upstairs is a huge dorm room and full bath-it is 900 sq ft.. All total we have over 4700 sq ft of finished space and another 1,000 unfinished space. We will have 7 bedrooms and the lg. dorm room with 5 and a half baths and at least 4 playroom areas and did I say... WE ARE LOVING ALL THIS EXTRA ROOM. It is wonderful to be able to spread out... as you can imagine.... 22 plus living here. Winter will be fine this year :) We are almost done just in time for my birthday... next week :) My next post will have pictures and some daily ways we do things.. like a picture of our chore chart...

Funny thing our son, Ben had his gfriend over tonite for dinner for the first time... one of the things he wanted to show her was our chore chart... I thought that was cute.

1 comment:

June Berger said...

I just found your blog. All I can say is WOW! What a blessed family you have! I went back and read most of your posts til just before the "new five" came home. I am in awe of how you do it. I look forward to reading your blog daily, what an inspiration you are!