We have been married for 11 years and have four wonderful children - The Lad, 9; The Dancing Princess, 8; Noodle, 4; and Hurricane V, 2 years old.
Three years ago we looked at buying a 13-bedroom, former private hospital in Junee, 40km north east of Wagga … and here we are now, building a 5-bedroom home in Coolamon, 40km from Wagga (but in a slightly different direction).
The journey from heritage style, Junee hospital to industrial/modern Coolamon home is actually not that far, but that story can wait for another post.
In the meantime, we have sold one house, moved into the in-laws, added another child (V), bought an acre and a quarter at Coolamon and spent a lot of time planning and sketching and arguing, and sketching, and sketching and sketching and sketching. And arguing.
Thankfully, access to Pay TV and the Lifestyle Channel allowed us to watch many episodes of Grand Designs. From here we came up with some basic plans, with the main idea to build our house as almost three separate buildings. Building 1 as the kids’ wing, building 2 as the central living area (with mezz for us) and building 3 as the garage/shed.
It is a little bit Grand Designs Huf House, a little bit Stars Wars Tie Fighter and a lot weird and bizarre, typical Dane – with Kelly keeping a lid on anything too outrageous.
Our dream is for the kids to have room to hang with friends and stay out of trouble in their own wing and we will be able to enjoy our own space and hopefully one day soon wake up with out one or more of the children in bed with us.
The boys will have space for dirt bikes, cricket and football and the girls will have room to dress up, dance, have tea parties and put concerts on for us all. Fingers crossed it will cater for our young family, and as the kids grow up.
So after many disagreements, compromises and the occasional agreement (we spent five hours in Ikea and only fought once… yep once) we have come up with our forever home.
Welcome to our blog and come on our journey to build our house…..Fuller Love.
