this is our lake. it's a beautiful lake. it's nasty brown in the picture because this was taken in the middle of winter, but you should see it now! it's back in all it's glory! see that shore over there? well, that's arkansas. yep. we're that close to being called "arkansasians" now. for those of you not familiar with our house history, here's the readers digest version. we bought 22 acres of land, our dream land just outside of a town near springfield, mo. we set out to build our dream home (look at post below)on it, and had a *brilliant* idea to put our house on the market immediately, because the market was so bad. that way it would give us plenty of time to build and finish our new home, while still being able to live in our current one. we were hoping that by the time we were finished building, that the house would sell. it didn't quite work out that way.
the house sold after 2 days on the market. the new buyers wanted us out in 9 days. they wanted to be able to get settled before thanksgiving. hmpf. all of a sudden, we were homeless. our house wasn't even started! the architect was still drawing up the plans! so, with 9 days to move, we decided to do something a little drastic.
neither one of us are big on renting. not that there's anything wrong with it, obviously, but i don't like paying for someone elses mortgage. so we moved our little family to our lake house an hour away from the rest of our life. we had just finsihed building the lake house this past summer, and really hadn't spent much time at it. let me start out by saying it's MUCH smaller than our old house. the lake house is 1300 sq. feet. 1300. seriously?! we have a LOT of stuff. a LOT of furniture. a LOT of everything. and before you form an opinion of me, i'm soooo not a pack rat. any one of my friends can assure you of that. but we had a bigger house, with more rooms, and i love to decorate.
anyway, we put the majority of our stuff in storage, untill our barn/shop could be built on the new land, and took over to the lake house what we needed. we took all our livingroom furniture, our bedroom set and stuff that we had planned on taking there after the new house was built, because it's going to stay at the lake, (all new furniture, for an all new house!) and we settled in. we only planned on staying at the lake shack 3 months TOPS.
here we are, 6 months later, and it looks as if we won't be going anywhere for a while. winter was hard on us this year, so it wasn't easy finding good weather to build the barn/shop. our plan is to build the barn, then start the house...we are just now in the finishing stages of the barn, and with the economy being what it is, and having it be as completely unstable as it is, we are waiting a few more months to start building our home. soooo, it looks like we'll be here for almost another year.
if you figure we start at the middle or end of summer, it will take 6-7 months for the house to be built, and that's if the weather cooperates.
when we first moved in, i didn't bother really decorating or organizing, because we were only going to be living here for a couple months, but now that it's going to be longer, i have been in a decorating frenzy. finding creative ways of organizing in such a little space. i've had so much fun living here, and have even gone as far as to tell hubby that i wouldn't mind living here permanently. (to which he rolled his eyes, and said something to the effect of "riiiiight")...he knows me *too* well. i do love the thought of living here, but i'm too much in love with our new house, ( and the thought of decorating it) to actually be content living here forever. but i have loved living here, and i will continue to enjoy being here for the rest of the time we are. i've done more creatively since we've been here, and i'm a little scared that when we move back, i'll go back to my old ways and lose that. i'm going to try so hard not to. but it's so easy living in the city (well, we don't live "in" the city, but close by) to run and go and go and go.
but here, you don't go anywhere. the nearest grocery store is 30 minutes from me. here, the kids and i take daily walks along the lake shore, we find beach glass, and shells. and in the words of anne shirley, "there's so much scope for the imagination"~ everywhere you look around here is gorgeous. i have views that are to die for, and i'm having fun.
the shack takes me an hour and a half to deep clean, that's baseboards and windows too! we don't get very good television reception (which doesn't really bother us since we aren't big on t.v. anyway), and our cell phone reception stinks. that right there has freed up a lot of time for me. back at our old house, the phone was constantly ringing, and i was constantly on it. now i'm hardly ever on it, because you pretty much have to lean forward, cock your head to the left side, hold out one leg and put your right arm to the sky in order to get a signal. and don't you dare move a muscle, or your going to drop that call.
i wanted to be able to show you our little lake shack i've come to love so much. excuse these pictures, as they were taken before i made the house all pretty. it's still a work in progress, and i'm lovin' it!
our bedroom. i normally don't keep that many books on my nightstand, but our book cases are in storage, and there's nowhere else for them to go...
pierre. my pig. i love him. i couldn't bear the thought of him in storage.
the bar.
lucy! my pet. lucy has been with me for over 9 years. i love her. she's the gorgeous one on your left...;) my aprons on the wall of the kitchen, the pink one is mine (love pink), and the yellow one was my great grandmas.
the master bath. a pedestal sink for the hubby and me. grrr. i miss having my own sink.
the living area. that's all for now. i'll post more soon!
the house sold after 2 days on the market. the new buyers wanted us out in 9 days. they wanted to be able to get settled before thanksgiving. hmpf. all of a sudden, we were homeless. our house wasn't even started! the architect was still drawing up the plans! so, with 9 days to move, we decided to do something a little drastic.
neither one of us are big on renting. not that there's anything wrong with it, obviously, but i don't like paying for someone elses mortgage. so we moved our little family to our lake house an hour away from the rest of our life. we had just finsihed building the lake house this past summer, and really hadn't spent much time at it. let me start out by saying it's MUCH smaller than our old house. the lake house is 1300 sq. feet. 1300. seriously?! we have a LOT of stuff. a LOT of furniture. a LOT of everything. and before you form an opinion of me, i'm soooo not a pack rat. any one of my friends can assure you of that. but we had a bigger house, with more rooms, and i love to decorate.
anyway, we put the majority of our stuff in storage, untill our barn/shop could be built on the new land, and took over to the lake house what we needed. we took all our livingroom furniture, our bedroom set and stuff that we had planned on taking there after the new house was built, because it's going to stay at the lake, (all new furniture, for an all new house!) and we settled in. we only planned on staying at the lake shack 3 months TOPS.
here we are, 6 months later, and it looks as if we won't be going anywhere for a while. winter was hard on us this year, so it wasn't easy finding good weather to build the barn/shop. our plan is to build the barn, then start the house...we are just now in the finishing stages of the barn, and with the economy being what it is, and having it be as completely unstable as it is, we are waiting a few more months to start building our home. soooo, it looks like we'll be here for almost another year.
if you figure we start at the middle or end of summer, it will take 6-7 months for the house to be built, and that's if the weather cooperates.
when we first moved in, i didn't bother really decorating or organizing, because we were only going to be living here for a couple months, but now that it's going to be longer, i have been in a decorating frenzy. finding creative ways of organizing in such a little space. i've had so much fun living here, and have even gone as far as to tell hubby that i wouldn't mind living here permanently. (to which he rolled his eyes, and said something to the effect of "riiiiight")...he knows me *too* well. i do love the thought of living here, but i'm too much in love with our new house, ( and the thought of decorating it) to actually be content living here forever. but i have loved living here, and i will continue to enjoy being here for the rest of the time we are. i've done more creatively since we've been here, and i'm a little scared that when we move back, i'll go back to my old ways and lose that. i'm going to try so hard not to. but it's so easy living in the city (well, we don't live "in" the city, but close by) to run and go and go and go.
but here, you don't go anywhere. the nearest grocery store is 30 minutes from me. here, the kids and i take daily walks along the lake shore, we find beach glass, and shells. and in the words of anne shirley, "there's so much scope for the imagination"~ everywhere you look around here is gorgeous. i have views that are to die for, and i'm having fun.
the shack takes me an hour and a half to deep clean, that's baseboards and windows too! we don't get very good television reception (which doesn't really bother us since we aren't big on t.v. anyway), and our cell phone reception stinks. that right there has freed up a lot of time for me. back at our old house, the phone was constantly ringing, and i was constantly on it. now i'm hardly ever on it, because you pretty much have to lean forward, cock your head to the left side, hold out one leg and put your right arm to the sky in order to get a signal. and don't you dare move a muscle, or your going to drop that call.
i wanted to be able to show you our little lake shack i've come to love so much. excuse these pictures, as they were taken before i made the house all pretty. it's still a work in progress, and i'm lovin' it!
our bedroom. i normally don't keep that many books on my nightstand, but our book cases are in storage, and there's nowhere else for them to go...
pierre. my pig. i love him. i couldn't bear the thought of him in storage.
the bar.
lucy! my pet. lucy has been with me for over 9 years. i love her. she's the gorgeous one on your left...;) my aprons on the wall of the kitchen, the pink one is mine (love pink), and the yellow one was my great grandmas.
the master bath. a pedestal sink for the hubby and me. grrr. i miss having my own sink.
the living area. that's all for now. i'll post more soon!
3 comments:
How precious!! I would love to have a lake house like that. It's so cute inside!! You've done such a good job decorating it. And your morning walks around the lake...so sweet!
Such a cute place! Your bedding set is so beautiful!
Oh, and I love that you used an Anne Shirley quote :)
okay, your lake house sounds charming, relaxing and CALM.....i wish the world were a little slower where families didn't watch 3 hours of tv each night and i wasn't obligated to gab on the phone for an hour every day!
glad you are embracing your lake house! god works in wonderful ways.......now i'm going to check out your house plans (i've been excited to see them, just waiting to get home and have some time to sit down)!
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