Roof!

Our house has a roof! It got a roof last week, but I didn't get around to posting any pictures. Here are said pictures:

Nice roof, eh? And look at that fabulous front patio. Small, but sturdy.

Wow, what a fabulous kitchen you have. Thank you.

Evelyn still is digging this whole "my room" thing.


We went to the house yesterday and it looks pretty much the same, picture-wise. The duct work is in, the furnace is in, the plumbing is starting to go in, and we have a front door. Not bad for Thanksgiving week!

I know house updates are pretty monotonous, but I can not describe the excitement I feel every Sunday when we head to the house site. I love it times a million. Every time I see a new plumbing line or a new wire heading somewhere important I am overcome by the excitement of building a house. MY HOUSE. OUR HOUSE. We picked all the finishes and the floorplan and the location. Everything about it will scream "Lew." The terror of carrying a mortgage for the next 30 years dissipates with every exciting discovery.

Planning our decor is almost as fun as seeing the progress in construction. We decided to let Evelyn pick out a paint color for her new room and--surprise, surprise--she picked "Batman!" We'll see if that desire holds true in a couple months when we move in, but we want her to be excited and happy with her new room, so if Batman is the man to do it, so be it.

We are planning my long-desired ecclectic-family-photos-up-the-staircase project. Something about an array of funny and meaningful family photos heading up a staircase says "family" and "home" to me. Maybe because we moved so much and didn't put a lot of stuff on the walls as a kid. Or maybe I just want to live in one of the homes from The Royal Tennenbaums. In fact, right now my design asthetic is a cross between a Wes Anderson movie and Anthropologie.

     

   

I can totally make that work without looking weird, right?