I’ve been not so good about blogging the last couple of weeks…and this week in particular.
But I have two really good reasons:
1) the pregnancy insomnia I’ve experienced each time is here again. Except this time, being exhausted and underslept when you also have three other littles to chase around brings it to a whole new level. I fall asleep just fine, but then I wake up at like 2:30 in the morning all wide awake and ready to go…and then I lie there. Forever. And when I finally fall back asleep, I don’t wake up until almost 7:00…which basically cuts out all of my regular blogging/computer time since that’s also when the kids wake up and are basically STARVING to death. (I typically wake up between 5-5:30 and blog before anyone is up for the day.)
2) A certain someone, who’s name starts with an L and ends with an Ucy, has absconded with my camera media card. Again. I left it in the card reader in the computer and it’s MIA. So now I have to go on a mission to find it, since it has all my pictures on it that I intended to use for blog posts.
SO.
Since I don’t have a lot of time (it’s already 6:40 now!), and I don’t have any pictures for you, I thought I’d share with you some pictures I have on my Pinterest board called “Dream Home“. Because it’s what I got for today. Lo siento.
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I really struggled with the idea of having this board to begin with…much less blogging about it…because I mean, it’s kinda gross. There are people out there DYING of dirty water and lack of medicine, and I’m salivating over wainscoting and farm sinks. But, it’s fun and silly and you know, Andy and I have always dreamed of one day buying a few acres and building a house that functions exactly as our family needs it. Building a house is for sure on our Bucket List…you know, right next to “Hold Babies in Africa” and “Dig a Well” and “Take in Foster Babies After Our Kids Are Grown”. Totally serious. About the house. And the never ending parade of babies that will hopefully inhabit it.
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A big, open, bright airy kitchen is a MUST. If ever I have the luxury of designing a house, the entire thing would be based on kitchen design. Lots of counter space. Lots of room for hanging out at the breakfast bar while Mama cooks. Lots of natural light. And a pot filler. Just because pot fillers are the coolest EVAH.
And white. Lots and lots of bright, happy, CLEAN white.
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A big, aproned farm sink. And that Viking oven next to it wouldn’t hurt. I wouldn’t be sad if that made it too.
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I know it’s specific, but seriously, could you die? Easy to get to. Tucked away. It’s like a little chariot for my mixer.
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I don’t like how narrow this galley kitchen is, but I ADORE how even when you are inside, it feels like you are outside.
All that light! Dreamy.
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My own personal craft space.
It wouldn’t have to be very big, but somewhere where I could sew or craft or whatever with all my stuff easily accessible (rather than tucked away in various cupboards, drawers, and boxes like it is now), and the ability to just close the door and not see the mess when I’m only part way through the process.
Right now, I do my (minimal) crafting in our master bedroom. Which basically means it looks like a hurricane blew through it until I’m done with my project.
Nor would you have to seek out all the little sewing needles that may now be embedded in your duvet cover.
Not ideal.
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This is a huge laundry room…which is probably too huge.
But you know what I see in this picture?
1) TWO SETS of machines (eek!!!!)
2) Plenty of counter space to fold
3) A door. Which can be closed.
(P.S. you know you’re a grown up when of all things in the world, it is THIS image that makes your heart race and your mouth drop. Goodbye adolesence. Hello Momdom.)
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This is fun.
But I think I’m more interested in three kids quietly reading.
I take that back: three kids quiet.
The rest is nice. I suppose.
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This staircase is a bit much for me, but the way it is lined with bookshelves?
Ohmygoodness.
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A big, wide porch.
I am irrevocably in love with porches.
I once had a calendar of nothing but front porches and I still kick myself for throwing it out at the end of the year.
A big kitchen and a front porch.
If we ran out of money once we built those two elements, I’d be totally okay. I’ll sleep on the porch when the weather is nice, and then make myself a little bed on the countertop when it rains.
I see no problem with this.
This is also super important to me. You know, if I was a bajillionaire and could build this fake house in real life.
A great back outdoor space. Cozy. Happy. Lovely.
But mostly, when you swing those robin’s egg blue (swoon!) french doors open…it becomes an extension of the inside. (I’d actually put bigger windows on the back of the house…kinda like that picture of the galley kitchen with all the windows?
Don’t you just want to sit in that chair with a glass of iced tea and a good book? For the rest of your life? With a baby in your lap? One that doesn’t cry or have diaper blow outs?
Heaven.
Do you have a dream house board on Pinterest? What one room would you design your entire abode around if you had the chance?
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I totally have a home inspiration board. Can’t wait.
My priority is definitely the kitchen. Hands down.
Could I come live with you?? I’d help you clean…
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Yes please. How fun would that be? Like sister wives without the awkward sharing.
:-D I would love a big house, but then when I think about the CLEANING… I decide I probably will just stick with little.
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Hi. I LOVE the pictures you posted. And I agree with 99% of your assessments of the rooms and what you do/don’t like… the one thing I’d add (again dream on Sara) is someone to clean it all for me so that it always stays that nice and bright and new looking. I love those rooms, but I know we’d destroy them in minutes. =) The kitchen ideas were spot on… I feel like if houses were designed by women, the kitchen would be the best room in the house because everyone always ends up in there it seems (or at least in my life they do). Great pictures… nice to have a day dream this morning. THanks!
We have a lot in common! I love the idea of a big new house made for babies – foster babies, grandbabies, babies, babies, babies. I know you and Andy will do this someday. All of it! Because your bucket list is cool. And, how did I not know that you didn’t have a craft room? I took it for granted, I suppose. That’s on my someday list too!
My mom-in-law just got a kitchen with a pot filler, which she was super excited about. And now she says she’s not sure how she feels about it. Apparently it’s so high that when she pours the water out, it splashes all over the place. So she has to hold the pot up to it to prevent splashing. At and that point, she might as well just walk to the sink and hold the pot, since the sink fills the pot faster.
So, basically I’m saying that either knock the pot filler off your list, or make sure it’s designed nice and low to the stove top. :)
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Or maybe they have pot fillers that move up and down as well as side to side? Or a pull out spout like on the kitchen faucet? :)
Your blogging as been like my commenting. Just haven’t been doing it. Been doing a lot of lurking, but not commenting. Then I saw your dream house and just drooled over my keyboard. So I had to come out of the closet and comment.
We have a lot of the same tastes. I dream of a big, airy kitchen with lots of natural light. I used to think I liked darker woods, but no I love the lightness. And the craft room? Ugh, I would die. I so long to have my own personal space that little ones can’t take over. As for the rest of it, I say, “Yes! Yes! and Yes!”
If you and Andy ever build your house, can I have the blueprints? I promise to change some of it up so it’s not exactly the same. ;o)
O.k. Can I say it? Isn’t that craft area a little creepy? Who has time to Roy G. Biv their paints? And anyway, it wouldn’t look the same with neat little rows of white ribbon, white paint, white glitter.
Well, if they WEREN’T in Roy B. Biv order, I would have serious anxiety. Serious anxiety. As for the white…I mean, we could definately go creamy to bright. ;)
Um, love. I want to live there too. What a perfect house that would make!!
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I have a farmhouse kitchen/ porch obsession….. of which I have neither at my house. I am slowly turning my kitchen from builder grade to my farmhouse style. Haven’t quite convinced my husband to turn the deck into a covered, screened in porch….something to do with roof lines, major construction, blah, blah! Pinterest is my happy place when everything is driving me crazy!
I don’t have a porch either…just this teeny little overhang…on my very spanish/mission styled house. I did finally paint my kitchen cabinets, so while it’s not my dream kitchen, it at least resembles it a little more closely. (If you missed it, do a search of my blog for Kitchen Reveal).