I was so excited to wake up to a beautiful, sunny day. After backporch church I quickly got started on a house project! It’s so exciting to finally be working on getting the house looking and feeling like home!
This Glider was handed down to us years ago by our Aunt Faye. We loaded it up and took it to our home in Alabama. I cleaned it up, painted it and put it on our front porch. In September when we moved back to Kentucky it came back with us.
The Amazing Glider
The glider was looking worn and needed an update to go with our new farmhouse. Today I sanded it down, scrubbed it clean and got busy giving her a new look. I was so pleased with how it turned out. She is full of life again and ready for many more years of gliding away!
Look at all the colors she’s been over the years!First comes the Blossom White!Next comes the New Navy to really make her pop against the white brick!Looks fabulous with my new wreath from The Tin Roof.Ignore my dirty porch 😆 we still have a mostly mud yard.My front porch is slowly coming to life! What should we do next?She brings life to the front porch!
It’s been a minute since I blogged an update on the house. So many things are happening and all at the same time. The tin roof is done, brick and board & batten siding are going on now. Inside the house they have electric, plumbing and gas. Kevin and I just did the insulation yesterday and sheetrock will be delivered tomorrow.
It’s crazy how quickly things are happening now! Yesterday while doing the insulation I found where friends, family and even some of the guys working on the house have added even more Bible verses to the house! Makes my heart happy.
In the past month not only has all the things been going on with the house, but our family has had a lot going on. The good was celebrating 50 years of marriage for my parents. The not so good was Covid hitting 4 members of our family. Thankfully everyone got through it fairly easy. Betty has completed 6 rounds of chemo as of Friday. My parents have had a lot going on with their health and Nadya’s senior year is going so fast! Each day it’s clear to us that God knew our family needed us here. We are so thankful we are here, too.
I think my favorite thing about the brick, siding and roof going on all at once is finally seeing my vision come together! AND still loving it! Haha! You make a decision based on a small sample and pray that it works when it actually starts going on the house.
I always said I wanted a white farmhouse with a tin roof. We also wanted a brick house and picking out brick was not easy! I picked out the Southern Pearl Queen, but kept going to look at others before going back and going with my first pick. I’m so glad I went for it! I love the brick and it looks great with the gray grout!
Coming along…Fireplace & Vaulted Ceiling WindowsI wanted an ole tin roof!Roof is going on fast!Brick is here! Midnight Surf Board & Batten SidingI am loving it!So much happening!Getting thereFinally getting to see it all come together!A close up of the front of the house.
It’s all happening so fast! Blocks are done, lots of digging for water and electric lines and we got a subfloor! Wow! I love driving over to the farm everyday to see what is happening and just breath in that fresh air and having that peaceful, easy feeling come over me.
Next the walls go up and we start to see what everything is going to look like. I am so excited! Behind the scenes I have been doing all the paperwork to get water and electric hooked up to the house. I have started looking at cabinets, lighting, faucets, doors, flooring and hardware. It seems there is always something to be done and I am forever grateful for this blessing so I go and do with a big smile on my face.
Betty (my mother-in-law) has had 2 chemo treatments so far and is handling them really well. The 2nd has been a bit tougher than the first, but the second she starts feeling better she is up and going. Working hours in her flower beds, cleaning, making a dessert or whatever. She is a tough cookie, a go getter, a woman who is living life to the fullest.
We were sitting around my uncle’s table looking over the vision boards I made for our home when he said “Are you ready”. We had only been back in Kentucky 8 days, but heck yeah we are ready!
He smiled looked at both of us and said “alright we need to met at the farm and mark where you want the driveway and how far off the road you want the house, when can you do it?” Two days later we were at the farm showing Rodney the spot we decided on.
We were thinking we were just marking the spots, but next thing you know we were hauling the tractor over to the farm and bush hogging down a driveway and spot big enough for them to get started on the house.
Marking where our home will be!
And here we go!
We have a “driveway”!
And there we have it!
Using our imagination to “see” our farmhouse!
Monday, September 13th we were having breakfast when Rodney calls and says “met us at the build site to make sure we put the house exactly where you want it”. And we were off to the farm.
Pinch me! This is really happening. As we drive up to the build site we see all kinds of things happening! A dump truck is coming down the road, my cousin is in a little loader working on the driveway, lots of trucks are there and people are walking around everywhere. Again, pinch me!
We get to met everyone and go over some details. They ask me where I want everything to be and make sure we are good with the distance from the road. Next thing you know everyone is moving around doing something. Kevin and I head to Marion to get our electric set up. When we come back the build site is cleared, our farmhouse outline is spray painted on the ground and they were digging the footers. EPPP!!! To be real honest I was like darn it looks small! 😀 I mean we are downsizing since its just the two of us, but maybe I downsized too much! 🙂 I was told at this point it will look small, just wait for it to get some height.
Faith to the Farm 