The Floor

Exciting stuff, I was able to walk on my floor for the first time this week!  Michael and I were off to Madison for the day and stopped by so he could talk to our concrete guy, Chuck.  As they were talking, I walked all the way up to the house looking at this huge expanse of wood spanning our whole first floor.  Looking around for someone to ask, my thought was, "Can I go up there and walk on it?"  Before that thought left my head, I hoisted myself up there maxi dress and all.  Nothing was going to stop me!  It was then that I realized how big this house was going to be.  Instead of fretting how I was going to keep such a big house clean, or how would we furnish it,  I snap chatted a few friends a picture.  My friend, Roxy, texted back, "We are going to need a map so we don't get lost!"

The opening will be where the stairs go down from the mudroom.

This is the footing for the front porch- more progress!!

Sure we could have made it smaller.  We actually did, after using a tape measure in the living room to map out how large certain rooms were.  Some interior rooms just ended up the size they are because it worked with the layout of the other rooms.  It's not some mansion, but it's bigger than what we have now by about 2,000 square feet and that's a house in itself.  I would feel strange about it if we didn't have 8 people that were going to live in it!!  One trip to Lake Geneva later, and it didn't seem so big!