Welcome to Green Acres: Our New Barn House
You know that feeling when you’re most to exercise something big?! Friends, I’m feeling all the feels correct now. We are moving! I’ve announced it all over facebook together with instagram, together with hence if yous missed the announcement, brand certain to follow over there! Welcome to our novel barn job solid my friends!
We were not planning on moving anytime soon. We but finished our gorgeous Master Bathroom! But this domicile has a exceptional story together with we’re excited most the change.
I telephone telephone the domicile Green Acres. This girl, who lived inwards Toronto, Canada past times alternative together with LOVED it, is at nowadays moving to the province exterior of a pocket-size town inwards northern Canada. I enquire a lot of embarrassing questions about country living (Can I level this? Can I swallow these berries? How exercise yous start the lawnmower?).
This is the home my in-laws built. My mother and father-in-law bought this land when they first moved up north, and them, along with their sons (which includes my husband), built this domicile amongst their ain blood, sweat, together with tears. No hired out contractors. No interior designers. Just a yoke edifice a domicile from scratch for their family.
Sadly, my father-in-law passed away a yoke of years ago, together with when my mother in law had to downsize this year, she was really pathetic to surrender the domicile together with belongings that held together with hence many memories for her. When my hubby approached her most us potentially buying the house, I intend she was really happy to know that the job solid would remain inwards the family.
It’s a beautiful v acre lot amongst all the infinite for children together with dogs to run free! Although nosotros dear the belongings together with the memories behind the house, it’s not really my vogue within or out. We accept BIG plans. Let me present yous around first…
The Home Tour
The BEST characteristic of this domicile is the huge opened upwards living room/dining room infinite on the master copy floor. The ceilings are vaulted together with covered inwards stained pino board. The infinite gets together with hence much natural lite together with it doesn’t fifty-fifty seem to accept that many windows!
There are ii bay windows that are at a shelf peak equally opposed to sitting height. The dutch similar to accept their plants on window sills :)
To 1 side is the dining room together with kitchen…
And to the other side is the living room together with fireplace.
Looking at 1 time ahead from the dorsum door is a hallway that leads to a yoke of rooms together with the entry. There’s a ton of storage inwards the hallway.
An outdated bathroom…
An everything space, that volition function past times away my component 1 day…
And an entryway amongst tons of potential…
I don’t know if yous guys accept noticed all of the lite fixtures, but they’re a chip on the outdated side.
Then nosotros go upstairs.
At the top of the stairs at that topographic point is a loft infinite that overlooks the master copy floor.
Then there’s some other outdated bathroom…
And a yoke of outdated bedrooms…
Do yous come across it? All the potential?!
What nosotros know is that the job solid was built well. My hubby was there. He knows that the walls were double insulated together with that every stud has extra screws. We don’t actually desire to alter the layout inwards anyway, but at that topographic point are a lot of changes nosotros accept inwards mind.
Updates for the barn house:
- Paint all the walls white ( including sponge painted ones) together with pigment characteristic walls later
- Paint the ceiling white (don’t kill me!) — > just imagine how opened upwards together with vivid the infinite volition be!
- Add novel cupboard doors on the master copy floor
- Lay novel flooring downwards inwards rooms amongst rug together with linoleum
- Replace laminate flooring (but non anytime soon)
- Build the fireplace upwards to the bulkhead
- Make bench seats inwards the bay windows
- Add built-in closets to our bedrooms
- Update all of the lite fixtures
- Renovate 1 room at a fourth dimension until the entire job solid is done!
and the BIG one…
- BUILD AN ADDITION!
Surprised?! This programme is a few years away most likely, but eventually nosotros programme to construct an add-on off of the side of the house. It volition job solid a two-car garage underneath together with a master copy sleeping accommodation amongst an ensuite upwards top. It’s a pretty ambitious plan, but we’re excited!
These Green Acres updates volition last regular from at nowadays on! We are hoping to accept the job solid painted inwards a few weeks together with that transformation is going to last HUGE! I can’t hold off for yous to see!
What exercise yous intend of our plans? Ask whatever together with all questions! I would dear to listen all of your thoughts! Do yous intend we’re crazy? Do yous intend I’m making the incorrect alternative amongst the ceilings? lol. Let me know!
Not certain what vogue I’m going to transform the job solid into?! These spaces volition give yous an idea:
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