The Lichte's New Farmhouse.... Week 16

My farmer just asked me... and I quote...  "If we had an unlimited budget - what kind of house would you have built"... After pausing for a second and thinking why he asked such serious questions during the chiefs game (we won-Go Cheifs) I smiled and simply said "The one we are building now"...

It might sound cheesy and my farmer may have given me a smile that suggested he didn't believe me - but it's true.

My dream farmhouse is going up a few hundred feet away.. Sure we have made cuts and will continue to make even more, but it's still everything I want..

 Take a look at Week 16. It was a frigid cold one but still lots of progress.

Week 16 picture... I have to keep moving down the hill to get the whole house in the photo. The house still looks so much bigger to me than what it really is. I am not saying that it's small - but the width of the house along with the front porch just really makes it look so much larger.

My frigid cold farmer checking out his garage (wishing our cars were already parked in there...)

This is the loft area/future kiddos playroom. I assume one day those floors will be full of John Deere tractors and baby dolls.

The upstairs features the loft area (above), two bedrooms and a Jack and Jill style bathroom in between. 

We will start on Week 17 this next week and hopefully, if we have good weather, we will be finished up in a couple of weeks.

I'm assuming soon I will start working with our cabinet guy, so this week I have been doing detailed planning's on my kitchen and laundry room. When the time gets closer I will do a post on just cabinets. I have gone so far as to knowing where I want to put my measuring cups, but still have no idea what I want the face of the cabinet to be... Small steps I guess.

Have a great week everyone. I do have one non house related post planned this week. It's time to force some indoor bulbs for next Spring.

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The Lichte's New Farmhouse ... Week 15

The Weeks are flying by.... Thanksgiving in 2.5 weeks away - it seems as if I just got married  but it's really been almost 5 months. It also seems like we just started digging our basement for our new house. AND here we are 15 weeks in.

It's been a good 15 weeks - it's certainly been fun. People ask all of the time when our projected move in date is... We have no idea. For now we are having fun with the building process and living just a hundred feet away form the action we get to see it first hand every single day.

I mean sure I am ready for a bigger kitchen (if I shove one more thing into my lower kitchen cabinets it's all going to come spilling out)... But there is something very cozy about our current home, and we have a lot of great memories there. SO I will spend then next several months living a more simple life with my farmer... All too soon that will change.

Take a look at all of the Week 15 progress... I seriously drive too fast getting home from work everyday just to see what has happened.

This is the Week 15 photo...

I could not be happier with the way that this turned out. These pictures do this no justice... The attention to detail is amazing.... AND so appreciated...

So glad that we went with a little window at the top of the gable on the garage...

 

AHH the front porch... (my favorite part of the whole house)

This is the second floor.... Soon we will have rooms up there...

Hope everyone had a great fall... from the looks of the forecast it's going to be Winter very quickly.. Have a good week everyone...

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Farmer's Harvest 2014

Harvest is ALMOST over... With record breaking yields, the occasional breakdown (too many to mention) and the limited storage space - it's been a long one.

Harvest comes with a lot of really great things - unlimited combine rides, standing out in the yard and being able to hear a combine at all hours- after all, my husbands office is in the backyard. BUT with that being said, I am excited to be eating dinner earlier than 9:30 p.m., it will be nice to go out on dates, you know other than just when it rains. But that's all part of being a farmers wife...

 

Just kidding...  ^ ^ ^

We are feeling very blessed to even be able to do what we both love. But with that being said, I am always so quick to praise those before us. Those that sacrificed so much for us to be able to live this great life. But to me - that person is my farmer. Sure there are times in his life where he could have done something different. Something with more security, something that your paycheck doesn't depend on the weather or the grain market or current events. Something more 8-5 Monday through Friday....  But that's not my farmer. He was born and raised to farm this land - and there is not anyone or anything that would ever change that or take that away...

 

He doesn't call it a job - he doesn't call it working....

                               

Seeing my farmer work side by side with his father everyday is one of the greatest things I have been able to witness... And since I work side by side with my father everyday as well - it makes it extra special...

                         

 I am feeling like a proud wife right now, but I want to give my farmer a well deserved shout out for our great life and all of the hard work he does for us. So to my farmer who is reading this... if I don't say it enough - thank you....

Take a look at my favorite pictures from the Harvest of 2014. 

 

I was starting to sort of feel like the paparazzi in the combine cab as I photographed the two of them.

 

 

 

I have a very unusual obsession with black and white photos. If I had my choice every single last one would be black and white.

 

                           

I hope everyone around had a safe and bountiful harvest.

As much as we both love this time of the year we are glad to see it end..  Fields are clean and empty and we start all over again next year.

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The Lichte's New Farmhouse...... Week 14

Just as the past few weeks have been going, a ton of progress was done is Week 14... The whole first floor is all framed up - we got concrete floors in the garage and on the front porch.

I  have found the perfect spot for a porch swing and wooden rockers on my front porch... 

This is my week by week photo... I had to change my spot that I stood at while taking the picture - I couldn't get the whole house in it.

On this inside of the house they finished putting up beams and started working on the flooring for the upstairs.

Our view from the second floor.

The stairs

The hallway (I can picture it full of family photos in big black frames)

The basement stairs entrance from the inside of the house. 

We also have a basement entrance in our garage (since our basement is not a walkout)...

Just a peak out the garage window... (GO CHIEFS)

Steal beam in the garage...

We have two 9' tall and 10' wide garage doors. 

We haven't started picking out garage doors yet, but this is the barn style (budget willing) we will choose - or something close to it...

In the words of Florida Georgia Line.... And my farmers current favorite song 

"Makes you wanna build a ten percent down, white picket fence house on this dirt. 

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