New Beginnings

Seeing as how the rayd site went down for a while, and now I'm having a little bit more of free time, I've decided to setup my own blog. I didn't go all out and order an actual domain, we'll just see how this blogspot one works out first. Hopefully I can stick with this one on a regular basis. I'm sure since I haven't had a post in a while, I'll have a flurry of posts right here at the beginning.

The news going on in the Barr Family life is the planning of our new house. I've pretty much got the floor plan to the way we want it. We've also determined the locations of the lights and ceiling fans (can't have too many ceiling fans in the south!) Now all I have to do is draw up a foundation design for the house and get an architect to finish it. I hope that doesn't cost too much, I'm guess 2-3k, what do you think? Know any good ones?

Since April has been out of the school, she's been on craigslist and going to yardsales. She's found some amazing deals and as a consequence, gave me a bunch of wood work to do! We plan on making all our vanities in the house out of pieces of furniture. For the guest bathroom she found an old dresser for $30. Now all I have to do is remove the drawers and add doors, then get a counter and sink made for it. I've also got to raise it up about 4" or so which shouldn't be bad. She also found two end tables for the living room for $2.50 each! Yesterday we went to The Dump and found a great painted finish of a piece of furniture and we're going to do that for these end tables. We went to Lowe's yesterday to get the paint. Once we're done with these projects, we'll post all the pictures.

Other furniture that we are going to build/buy in the near future.
Build from scratch: Master bath vanity, kitchen table (from an old door on our property), hall bathroom vanity, various benches and porch swings.
Buy: Living room sofa, chairs, and chaise lounge.

Hope you like the new site! I'll be updating and configuring regularly for a while.