New Property in Virginia

Yes, we've finally decided on a building site and a floorplan. The Laurel-A is the floorplan we've chosen...



This is what the downstairs looks like on the basic plan. We're going to flip the the dining room and the kitchen. The house will be situated so that the side door there is essentially the front door of the house, with the long porch facing the pasture. So that's why we want to flip those rooms. Mom thinks it would be odd to have the main entry into the house almost right into the kitchen and I quite agree. The two smaller bedrooms downstairs will be turned into essentially one master suite. The wall between them will remain, but there will be a door put in it and the closet on that wall is going to move to the opposite wall. One side will be used as the bedroom proper and the other as a "dressing room/sitting room/den." We probably will have a couch in there that can be used as an extra sleeping space as well. The other bedroom downstairs will be kinda like a guest room. I'm trying to figure out just how many this cabin will be able to sleep... Like 8 - 10 at least it looks like at maximum capacity... This is a very good thing...



This is the upstairs. That bedroom and bathroom will be mine. We want to put at least one daybed or something in the loft, but I'm not sure how much room there will be with the roof pitch there. But we'll see... The rooms are pretty good sized though, except possibly for the loft so it looks good...

Here are some pictures of the site. They were taken by my parents when they went up toward the end of March... I couldn't go because I was in class...



This is the view from what will be our front porch out toward the the pasture and the mountains. I need to get some more of these so that we have photos of the whole panoramic view...



Here's the view of what will be the side yard toward the hillside. There is a low brick foundation there... we're not sure what kind of structure it was for... It could be a very old small house, a shed, or a shelter for pigs, or something else entirely... I'll need to investigate further and possibly need some help from Jason and Susan to figure it out...