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So I wanted some peace and quiet.  Our house is just not big enough for me to hide from the video games, computer games, wii, PS3 and that wretched Rock Band game.  taptaptaptaptappittaptap... It's enough to give anyone a headache... We were going to have a 2 car garage built with a great big storage area over it so we could actually have a nice usable attic space then turn the existing 1 1/2 car garage in to a rec room and move those noisy things out there... but noooOOoooo those septic drain fields are in the way.

Plan B was to have a room built on... just a bit of an addition... $65,000 for a room for possible peace and quiet was pretty painful.  I wanted to go for it but it's hard to shell out the equivalent of 2-4 new cars depending on what kind of car you're getting...

So I was sad.. Really sad.  The thought of living in this noisy house with nowhere for me to go to work or hide during the noisy gaming weekends just made me want to cry.... Then one day I was like.  Hey!  If you can't alter the house you have why  not move to one that has everything you want???  So began my search.  Over the course of just a few days I found a few potential houses in the area that could possibly work - then I saw a housing development go up - and they had a floor plan I really really liked - but we'd have to wait to have it built... it's all good.  I think it's so worth the wait!!

So here is our lot.....  This picture was taken in early August...
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Then the bulldozers came and I started to get excited.  Really excited.... This was taken just last Friday.

Saturday we took hubby's parents over to visit our dirt.  Right now I can't call it much more than dirt.  Well, they had a bobcat out there pushing around more dirt. 
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Monday I went out to visit my dirt again and to my surprise there was wooden forms all ready to go for the slab and a giant pile of gravel.  I took some pictures - but my phone apparently was hungry and ate them.  I went back today and there were plumbers there!!  Yup. It's all in motion now!  I'll go back every few days and update the progress.  It's so exciting!!  Okay, it is for me.  This is the first house that I have had build for me.  I've lived in a few new homes but none of them were ones that I picked out.  I tweaked the floor plans.  I picked out the flooring and the cabinets.  I picked the lot.  I picked which direction the garage would face.  Everything about it I picked out.  It will be so nice to have a house that I wanted and had a say in from the beginning... oh and the best part??  My craft room will be HUGE!!!!  Oh yes indeedy.  It is going to be wonderful.  I can fit probably 3 of my current craft rooms in to the new one... I'll post pics of course once I'm actually in that glorious creative space... but for now...  I
 


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