Dreamy. This home.
I frequent it and know it well.
Welcome friends, to my sister Jodi's beautiful country home! Jodi's answers reveal the warmth and love of the family that makes this home so special.
Please
tell us who makes this lovely house a home?
My
adventure-loving husband of almost 17 years and our three absolutely wonderful
children. Luke is 12 and enjoys
basketball, soccer, and building awesome bunkers in the backyard for airsoft
wars. Jack is newly 10 and cannot get
enough of fishing, boating, and basketball.
Julia Rose just turned 8 and is a farmgirl in the truest sense, never
complaining about feeding the chickens, checking on the rabbit, or walking the
dog.
What
made you choose your house?
When
my husband was offered a job in the Seattle area, we toured 52 houses in 4
days. Seriously. The one we bought was the first and last
house we went through. All we pictured
was our two little boys (at that time) running and playing.
How
long have you lived here?
I
can’t believe it has been almost 10 years!!
Time does fly. It is fun to look back through pictures of growing
our kiddos in this home.
Looking
back, how has your decorating style changed since you first moved in?
Oh
wow! Lots in some ways and none in
others…if that makes sense. I have
always loved the feeling of old: Old furniture, old thrift store finds, old
pictures in worn-out frames. When we moved in, I was all about the French
countryside. Never having actually been
there, I scoured books and magazines to create vignettes of what a countryside
cottage in the hills of France might look like.
Over time, as my husband began bringing home antler sheds from
hunting trips, and our pets outnumbered people, I began to find our family
“niche”. Let’s face it…We were much more
farm than foreign! Ceramic cows now fill the kitchen, books of
fishing facts fill the shelves, and dirt on the floor has become a little
comforting.
What
do you hope your children remember about living here?
Hopefully
they will remember most their cousins playing in the yard or swimming in the
creek. Long summer nights and Fall
pumpkin parties. Running down the stairs
screaming on Christmas morning. Building
campfires with Dad and mom’s s’more trays.
Friends coming and going.
Grandparents stopping by to celebrate a birthday or for absolutely no
reason at all. And finally number 1: Remembering feeling so LOVED in this house we
call HOME.
What
holidays do you most enjoy decorating for?
Christmas
would most definitely be our favorite!
Nothing tops the celebration of the birth of our King, Jesus. It’s like the biggest birthday party ever,
and I love that!
What
home projects are you currently dreaming of doing?
Well,
the one I finished today was cleaning our carpets with a rental Rug
Doctor! Sometimes the best home projects
are just cleaning up after the LAST home project! Next, I would have to say, would be to get rid of the yellow-gold tones
on the walls of the kitchen and family room.
I’m thinking a warm white or even a soft gray? Nothing too major. For now, at least for this evening, I feel
very blessed and extremely thankful to have been given such a full life with my
growing family…even if the upstairs bathroom remains a little dated….
Thank you, Jodi! What a treat of a tour it was.
xo
