House Updates!

We are so excited to finally be making forward progress on the house.  Here is a sketch of what the front will look like once we are complete:

Now the fun part begins.  We have to select everything we want for the inside including flooring, paint, fixtures, and the list goes on.  It can be quite overwhelming at times.  It feels so good to make a few decisions!  Luckily I have an expert (my mom) in the flooring department.  She helped us select the following for most of the flooring in our new house.  The picture is hard to tell exactly, but the wooden floor sample at the top is a bamboo floor that we really like and hope is in our budget.  We also like the two carpet samples that are furthest right near the bamboo.  The vinyl flooring (at the bottom) is what we think we like for the new mud/laundry room.

 
Here is a slice through the house that shows the current great room and new dining room extension as well as the new, larger, covered front porch (where man is standing).  Notice the new doorway to the left of the fireplace where the addition will be.

 

This is a direction that we like for the master bathroom.  Disreguard the tiled table it's sitting on!  The stripey blue tile near the bottom is what we want as a feature wall in the shower and for the bottom of the tub surround.  The yellowy-creamy colored tile (to right) will be the floor, shower walls, and tub decking.  The fish border will go above the tub with smaller yellowy-creamy tiles also.  

The pictures really don't do it justice.  I was surprised that Derek liked the fish.  Fish have always been a favorite of mine (one current bathroom is already done in fish) and I just fell in love with these cute hand-made tiles.  Luckily we won't need much of it, so I really hope we can fit that in the budget too!