The Little White Bungalow.... Country Style?

Hey, we don't live in the Little White Bungalow anymore!  I think I mentioned a while back that we were sort of casually looking for a new place (for many reasons), but were having a hard time envisioning life somewhere else.  Well, we actually found the right place to make it worthwhile!

Although we miss the Little White Bungalow very much, we've found there are lots of benefits to living on 5 acres out in the middle of nowhere, especially when you've just left an urban setting, where if both you and your neighbor stuck a hand out of the window as far as you could, they might actually touch!

That's right, we've moved from the city to the country.  You can look out any direction from our house and you will not see any indication of human life besides our own.  There are many good things about the country like peace, quiet, lots of wildlife, trees and open spaces, and there are some bad things too, like satellite internet, snakes, satellite TV, lizards, no garbage pickup, bugs, and getting your water from a well.  Fortunately none of these things are deal breakers, although no garbage pickup is a pretty big bummer when you have a 14 month old.  I'm getting over it though, and definitely looking forward to cooler weather so everything won't smell so godawful.

Anyway, if you're at all familiar with this houseblog you know that we worked for just about 4 years on the Little White Bungalow and pretty much ended up touching every aspect of the house.  All of the archives that describe this process are still here, basically anything prior to July 2007 is the old house. And the archives will stay up because I've gotten lots of positive feedback from folks in the trenches that have actually found them helpful.  We're really glad we did all the work, it was satisfying on so many levels, but in the end it really simplified the house selling process and we were able to get back all the money we had spent on renovations and then some.

So about this blog, I'd like to continue it even though we don't live in the Little White Bungalow anymore.  To us the Little White Bungalow became more of a concept over time instead of just a place or thing, so I think we'll stick with the name in the title, it fits and it represents home to us.  Our topics may be different than the typical home renovation blog mainly because our house is only 7 years old and it's a log cabin... yes... a log cabin. 

Although we don't have to do a total renovation here there is still lots to be done, mainly in our basement, and I imagine that will be the topic of many upcoming posts.  We also have lots of work to do outside, so much so that we actually bought a tractor, and we have some horses and will soon have some chickens living with us so that should be interesting. In fact one of the main reasons we chose to move out to the country is that we want to do a little farming.  You know the whole homesteading, organic farm, live off the land thing.  We're also looking for ways to be as energy efficient as possible, we hope to install solar and have many other projects floating around in our heads. The reality is we've accepted that no matter where we live, we'll be home improvement enthusiasts whether we like it or not.

Hopefully there are some other rural/farm/ranch/log home type home renovation bloggers out there and you can throw some helpful hints our way, I think we're really going to need them!

Well that's all for now, I'll leave you with some photos of a typical day here on the "farm."