Watercolors and a "Master Plan" for my house...

{The fireplace chase is rotting so I'm making lemonade from lemons}

 I'm working on a "Master Plan" for my home! Here's a photo of the back of my house before our renovations start. It's a 70's house with gray painted "T1-11" grooved plywood siding. You pronounce it "Texture One - Eleven" It's the stuff they clad sheds and barns with, and in my case, a house.

{The back is a bit of a mish-mash of windows- eventually I'll replace them all!}

Here's the elevation I showed earlier of the new windowseat that will be built soon where the fireplace chase is now. And we are rerouting the deck stairs. (The steep narrow staircase will be gone and we'll have five foot wide stairs and landings to the side)

{Love my blue Staedler drafting pencils - a set of tweleve from the soft 6H to the hard 4H}

I'm working on tweaking the final exterior materials for the windowseat and developing a "Master Plan" for the whole house. Here's my original drawing and I'm adding a new piece of tracing paper over it...

 

...to sketch out some new dreams for the future. 

{In this plan I'm using T1-11 on the new windowseat- see the 8" apart vertical grooves?}

See the pencil on tracing paper over the  old drawing?

 Then I photocopied the whole thing and whipped out the watercolors...

{Evie got mad I "muddied" the colors in her set!}

 Of course, I haven't made a trip to the art store lately, so I'll make do with the kid's Crayola set and the sad brush that came with it.

Coming next... The finished Master Plan!

Loretta

p.s I've just lined up an APPLESandRUBIES guest post on seating heights from the talented Ashley Spath! Thank you Ashley, I can't wait to see what you write!