Our Soon To Be New Home...

In just 6 short weeks this will be our new home. It's still a bit surreal, as it seems like just yesterday we were meeting with Realtors to put our townhouse on the market. I still remember the day we decided to put our townhouse on the market... I spent an entire week cleaning the baseboards with a Q-tip, purging closets, and became far too obsessed with reading articles like "How to Prepare Your Home for Sale" (yes, I am a bit of a perfectionist).

After reading that last paragraph you would think that we listed our townhouse ages ago, but in reality it was only April of this year. Not that long ago when I stop and think about it. Maybe it seems like ages ago because we packed SO much into this summer...countless viewing appointments, a half dozen weddings, Rob traveling around the world to India and back (2x!), and let's not forget our 12 day trip to Italy! We went under agreement in just over 60 days, and after A LOT of back and forth negotiations, we closed exactly 4 months after we put our townhouse on the market. Huge relief given the still somewhat shaky state of the real estate market!

Now that the sale of our townhouse is behind us, we are excited for the next phase of our lives. We spent quite a bit of time looking around for the "perfect" house, but in the end, decided that building new was the right thing for us. We aren't very handy people, and we knew that we didn't want to take on many remodeling projects, so it just made sense for us to build the house we wanted according to our personal style and taste. Luckily Rob and I have very similar decorating tastes, and agreed on most (if not all) selections we made for our new home. I'm still a tiny bit nervous to see our selections come to life, but I have confidence that everything will turn out looking great! It's hard to pick out colors for your home when you can only see sample sizes of everything - it's a whole different ball game when you see things in real life. So far we love the brick color we selected, and are excited to see the siding/shutter/porch color combination come to life in the next few weeks!

More updates on the house will follow as we head into our last few weeks of construction.