Part 3: I don't know about you

but this part 1, 2, 3 business is already getting a bit redundant.

Anywho! If you're anything like me, then this is the post you've been waiting for!
The glorious house plans! Well.. not the official ones of course - but these are the plans that we found online that we took to G&I and had modified to become a modular home!

We both wanted a country style home with a large front porch, 4 bedrooms, an open floor plan, and no wasted space. A lot of the country style homes we found online included a formal living room and that was at the top of both of our lists of things we did NOT want. We wanted to make sure that every square inch of our new home would not only be usable.. but would BE USED. We wanted 4 bedrooms as we plan on having at least 2 children, and maintain a guest room for when family/friends come to visit.

We only had to make a few structural changes to the house - flipping the stair case around and the angle of the entry door, moving the master bedroom door, deleting the bump-out window on the second floor, completely abandoning the tub in the master bath for a large walk-in shower, and expanding the house by 2 feet all to fit a double oven in the kitchen :-D .

We aren't having G&I install the garage (we'll be taking care of that on our own), and they won't be installing the wrap around porch from the photo either. To save on cost we will be completing a front porch (not wrap around) that extends the entire front of the house, and putting on a back deck/patio next summer (2014 if all goes according to plan). This year, once the house is set on the foundation, we will be starting on the garage/mudroom so that the washer and dryer can be moved up from the basement.

When all is said and done we will be moving from a 1040 sq ft home, into a marvelous, open floor plan home that is over 3,000 sq ft. (we don't have an exact sq footage at this point as we haven't decided how we will be using the basement just yet). The fact that we designed so much of it ourselves, and picked out every single feature is soooo exciting to me. I can't wait to see it all come together!! I mean, it's easy to pick out things - looking at swatches of carpet, and samples of cupboard doors, but to see it all come together in real scale will be amazing. Especially the kitchen.. :)