While often overlooked, the lighting selections in a home are some of the most important design choices as lighting can truly transform a space. Pendant and feature lighting has the ability to catch people's attention as well as ground areas within a home by defining spaces of use. Especially when …
Boaz introduced us to our flooring installers, Daniel and his two brothers. I enjoyed talking with them because they reminded me of my family.
Although we did not desire it, we thought we could settle for carpet or laminate wooden flooring in the upper floor of the home to save …
Boaz, our contractor, created an initial plan for where the electrical outlets and lighting could and should go, while simultaneously telling us that this was a very generous lighting plan and one that could be scaled down.
Scott reviewed the electrical plans and made adjustments by adding, removing, and moving …
One afternoon while Scott and I were visiting the Mesquite Street house and viewing the construction progress, one of the workers with a black sharpie marker in hand introduced us to the tangible tradition of writing Bible verses on house framing to bless the home in a meaningful way.
This …
Pouring the concrete foundation is a milestone of building a home and one that is highly anticipated! The concrete truck was coming early that day, 6:30 am to be exact. Scott and I pulled our car up to the playground parking lot, and I remember seeing Mesquite St. filled …
The first step in the building process of our home was to evaluate the soil and land that the home was to be built on and decide the best type of foundation to build.
We knew from the unnatural lay of the land that the property we bought had been …
We may not have found our builder in the conventional way, but in more of a “it was meant to be” kind of way. But then again, that's always been the way Scott and I do things.
The first potential builder came to us through a woman we met who …
Drawing up the plans for this new home became our “empty nest” activity. It was something Scott and I could do together in our newfound time. Our first question we asked ourselves was, “What is the purpose of this home?”
The first and foremost answer to that question was that …
It began as a dream. Our number one priority was that we needed a home that was handicapped accessible, and one that a wheelchair could move around in with ease. Looking on Zillow, we saw and then visited a lot that was for sale in an older neighborhood. I fell …
