An exciting time for us every year is the time we spend planning our family vacation. This year we have been looking at various locations and places to stay that are near the water, mountains and wilderness. We want to rent a cabin or cottage style home design that is away from the city. While [...]
One normally pictures Farmhouse, Craftsman, Plantation and Country home plans as having wide, wrap-around porches that surround the home or covered porches in the front and also in the rear. Cozy images enter our thoughts of porch swings, rocking chairs, lemonade, big lazy dogs and that “Oh so precious” family time. Our family has so [...]
We live in a beautiful area and tend to spend a lot of time outdoors. Our country home plan has a wide wrap-around porch that overlooks most of our yard. For years we have thought about putting in a garden so that time spent outdoors would be productive along with fun. The kids are finally [...]
Our family just relocated and I have the huge task of making our house a home both inside and out. We made the move from living in a Contemporary house plan in a coastal state to a Prairie Style floor plan in the Midwest. Needless to say this is a big change for all of [...]
I don’t know about you and your family but I would definitely say the state of the economy over the past couple of years has really changed how our family lives and makes decisions on a daily basis. My grandparents would always say how we are a society of convenience and the amount of waste [...]
My son came home the other day with a note that they were having a food drive at school. Of course the note had been left in his book bag for a week and he needed food the next day. A trip to the store wasn’t in my schedule so I decided to “shop” in [...]
We live in one of those two-story home plans with split bedrooms. The master bedroom and bath are on the first floor and three additional bedrooms are on the second floor. Our kids are constantly coming and going. Last weekend we spent a lot of quality family time at home. It was wonderful and we [...]
My husband can always tell when I’m getting a little restless. I start moving things around the house and he can’t find them. We have lived in one of those cute country cottage home plans for about three years now and when we first moved in I decorated it to be perfect. I had a [...]
We live in one of those sprawling ranch home plans at the end of a cul-de-sac in a neighborhood that has lots of children. With so many people coming and going, the traffic has taken its toll on our home. Over the winter months the dirt and grime that has entered our home now needs [...]
Our family lives in one of those older-style two-story Victorian house plans and the last couple of months the weather has been bad so we have been spending a lot of time in our home. We have made a commitment this year that when we spring-clean we are going to throw away items we don’t [...]