Sketching our Second Floor Layout

I had a few minutes to sketch up a layout of our second floor. I did this one entirely in photoshop. I used the first floor drawing as a starting point, and just drew it up from there! Hope you enjoy!

The Lay of Our Land

I had some fun drawing up a rough copy of the layout of our first floor today, and I'm going to work on the second floor tomorrow. The best part is loading it in photoshop and adding all the color.

Here it is! I'm hoping this will make it easier to understand what I'm talking about when I mention different rooms in my posts. I also added a tab up top for easy access to the layouts/ floor plans in the future. Just click on "Layout Love" and it'll be right there in front of you.

The white boxes are doors, and the blue boxes are windows.

the Lay of the Living Room

We have been trying to do as much planning as possible for the new house so we can get to work as soon as we close on our new place. Here is what we are thinking for the Living Room.

We don't have all of our furniture picked out yet, but there are some pieces we already have that we will definitely be using. One of them is this Entertainment Center that we bought after getting our amazing flat screen for Christmas.

We also have a bookcase/ cabinets that we will be using in the living room, we got these from my Mom's house,  and Mike is planning on staining the shelves, doors and exteriors to match the entertainment center. I will either wallpaper or paint the insides a bright color to bring them up to date and really make them pop!

Once we hear that the bank has approved our offer we will purchase a couch similar to one of the ones from this post. We still haven't decided whether or not we will go with a sofa with a chaise or without. It all depends on the best deal we can find that best fits our style.

We have been on the lookout for an ottoman that is an amazing multi tasker meaning it will have storage and will be able to be used as seating when we need a few extra seats in the room. Possibly this one from overstock.com - I am even thinking that two of them might make a nice "coffee table"

We have been hunting for rugs and accessories for the past couple months, and have found a few that go great with our style, we haven't found one for the Living Room yet because it needs to be super big [at least 8'x10'] but I'm sure we will find something soon. I will let you know as soon as we do!

playing outside

So! I have sadly missed one or two posts, but I promise that I am back in the saddle again! The one year anniversary of my Mama's death is tomorrow, and it has made for a pretty rough week. I do however have quite a few posts in my drafts that I am very excited to be sharing with you in the near future! In the meantime there's nothing like one of my scratchy little drawings that I love to color in using photoshop.

There is not an aerial shot available of our property. Apparently when the satellite for Google Maps was taking a picture of our house the leaves were still on the trees, because all you can see are the leaves.
Lucky You! I decided to draw one up myself to give you an idea of what we're working with in the great outdoors!
Here it is!

click on the photo to see the full size version of it

a little bit of layout love

I was thinking that when we are trying to explain what it is that we're doing to our soon to be humble home that it would be a whole lot easier to figure out what and where we are talking about if you had some kind of reference. Here It Is! A floor plan from floorplanner.com  I totally love this site thanks to it's ease of use, it's FREE, and you can get a lot done in a fairly quick amount of time.

Also, floor plans are just fun! At least for a design nerd like me! Enjoy!