Tornado Damage? Renovation? Remodel? You did what!!! Extreme home make-over might just best fit the description of this "under construction" job. Perry, along with his parents & three siblings, grew up in this fine house- est.1980.
In fact, as Perry's high school sweetheart, I had the pleasure of eating many wonderful Ruthe-made meals in this house. And, Perry & I spent many a date-night sitting on the backyard trampoline gazing at the stars wondering where we might be in 10years time. Remodeling ( a nicer way of saying 'tearing down & rebuilding') the family home never once entered into our thoughts. But, here we are- 16 years later- continuing to construct our lives together.
In 2008, we sat down with Perry's dad. Dale was ready to move into something smaller & thought that Perry needed to be living on the main farm. It sounded appetizing & we were very appreciative of his kind offer, but we just weren't quite ready for that type of commitment. We wanted time to think & get our finances in order. We wanted time to plan out how WE could turn Perry's childhood home into our home as a married couple. We waited, dreamed, schemed, saved, AND in January of 2012 started the process.
Contrary to popular opinion, we didn't have much of a plan in the way of a blue print. Our main goal was to change the layout to a more open-concept feeling and add on an addition to the front of the house that would accommodate a larger dining room.
At first we thought could do all this by keeping the same roof and keep those other important house features that were already intact....intact. But snakes, extreme electrical problems, three different roofs stacked one on top of the other (that all still leaked- mind you), and a bevy of unwelcome critters convinced us that our remodeling job was going to look more like a demolition.
So, Perry armed himself with a sledgehammer & I armed myself with an arsenal of magazines, pictures I'd been saving for years, and tv station called HGTV.
This blog is to tell the story of our home.
The Philpott Family- re-established 2012.
