Dream home.

So as most of u guys already know, steven and i bought a place. it's up in a wooded farm area right on the edge of the suburbs, so there's lot of clean air ^_^ too bad no beach. oh well, I'll take what i can get.



We bought an end house (style was called the birch) with brick finish.

2 bedrooms

2.5 bathrooms
and it looks like we have an attic so in the future if we wanted to we can renovate the attic into an awesome space. basement included.
and because we went on opening week, we got bonus swag with our house! washing machine and dryer, stove/oven, refrigerator, and a BBQ (though i kinda doubt we'd be using it...)

we just have to drop the last deposit and we're good :)

ok so interior of the house: we have the basement, main floor/lobby garage, second floor open concept kitchen living dining area and bathroom, third floor we get the choice to have one big walk-in closet or smaller closet with extra laundry room (it's a bit unnecessary, so we opted for the walk-in closet...)

















seriously i didn't think I'd be this excited to own a place, but after seeing this layout i was like :OOOOOOOOOO and in the back of my mind i kept thinking (omg debbie travis painted house episodes.. theyre all coming back to me!!)

i started looking up different designs for homes and what i wanted certain parts of the house to look like.

steven gets his kitchen space, second bedroom/office/gaming man den space, and the second bathroom. since he wants the kitchen to be black, and since it's open concept, i have to build the rest of the living/dining space around the kitchen. i know what i want my walk-in closet and master bathroom/bedroom space to look like, i just don't know how to stylise the lobby and 2nd floor. (ok technically yes i do but since I'm an artsy fartsy person, so many things come to mind and i have to weed out the ones i don't want..)

i thought, "well what about a coastal living (aka beach theme) home? Imagine walking into a mint green lobby with beechwood furniture and bright paintings on the wall... i can walk right into the door and think I'm in paradise! could i do the lobby that theme? yes absolutely! "
but with steven's dark kitchen.. I'm not sure how that would look like and it wont go with the rest of the house. *picky andrea is picky!* so then i kept thinking "i could also do a submarine/nautical theme and have refurbished porthole mirrors in place in the lobby hallway and that's look epic... and it may even go with the rest of the house.. hm... or i could do straight up undersea theme but have modern elements like an ikea showroom?"

never in my life have i thought this was gonna be an easy process. i knew it was going to be difficult. and steven couldn't help me imagine what the whole house would look like. SO i decided to put my art skills to good use and create three dimensional layouts of what our home would look like.

Of course this is just a really bad photo. I'll upload properly when i get the chance.. but that's basically what our 2nd floor looks like! minus the fridge. (and yes island is included with the house.)

Ok now i have to admit there's a lot of things to think about before the house gets built. tiles, hardwood, carpet? can we negotiate paint colour of walls? what are the cabinets gonna look like? can we have it so we don't have windows in certain areas? can we widen the length of some windows? can we remove a closet door? can we add a few doors? where should we put electrical outlets? should we upgrade certain parts of the house like the roof? what kind of insulation are they using? are they gonna use flame retardant wood? seriously small things to think about but there are a lot!

i wont go into specifics just yet so y'all gotta wait until next year :)

Buy anyway, yesterday steven and i went to ikea to see what kind of look we want to go for.. and there were MAD TONS OF PRETTY TOURQUOISE, BLUES, AND MINT GREEN ITEMS AND SHOWROOMS EEEVERYTHERE!! i was flailing and running all over the place!! so i think i have an idea of what i want now. and steven also knows what he wants.

cant wait to show you guys ;)