The Fletcher Family Scramble

Well hello there,  

After giving little hints in my blog post previously, and upon have been given the permission by our architects, we can finally let the cat out of the bag.  Fletch and I are doing a total remodel of our 1960's 900 sq/ft home.  We have called this our nest since 2002 and to be frank, this isn't going to be easy to knock it down.  This is my husband and I's first house and what we called ours since living in our sweet little mountain town.  Last summer, beginning in May, we had an offer into an amazing house that we called the Red House.  To make a long story more brief, it was a short sale and in a total mortgage buying time warp.  We just couldn't get excited about the house any longer after having put up three offers and having none work out just right.  I didn't mention it here, because I don't deal well with dissapointment and so I could never get excited.  Really, this was just a blessing in disguise that allowed us to re-evaluate our wants and needs.  What we wanted was a new house, in our existing neighborhood, next to the Lowry's, with all our special needs.  After a bit of research, and because we live in the county, the best plan was to build on our existing site because we could avoid all the sticky city covenance crap and building permitting business.  See, we live in Bozeman right in town, but are grandfathered in to a county set up with nothing more than a landuse permit required to build.  Oh goody! Lindsay Schack and Tuya Studios are the architects we have been working with since February to get our desires on paper.  We decided on going with Biggerstaff Contstruction of Big Sky to build our custom Fletcher Flat.  We will begin work after the 11th of July and hope to be finished in four months-ish, heavy on the ish!  

So that's the story in a nutshell.  Fletch and I are going to do our best to be gentle on each other, a family pact we have already established, because the stress is building.  We do what we can to get outside since the weather has finally decided to warm up, smearing fat together in the woods seems to be the best remedy of late.  

Happy weekend.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kristin 

Our House Now.

The Partners' House,

Our Home for 5 months, 

luckily only 4 blocks away.

Fletcher's New Flat

View from the front. 

Yep, that's a flat roof on the garage!

View from the backyard.

Elevational Details including:

rolled steel gutters, a sliding panelled door w/exposed hardware,

framed and detailed window brows, reclaimed wood siding,

entry nook, and a clean volume.

Continued details:

Master Bedroom above the garage with enclosed

steam shower and river rocked detailing the floor, private master

patio with 3 paneled sliding door.

See that garage door on the back, that's to my new studio!!!!

I will have a workbench on coasters and will

schelp projects outside to work.

I am also excited about the finished texture on the garage volume,

it is a layered and trowelled plaster in a dark slate that will have 

a velvety texture when completed.

New Kitchen:

angled garden window, marble pastry slap, 

Alder chopping block, an open floor plan,

and a Blue Star cooking range.

Bro, Sister-in-Law and Dad.

Check out the Aspen tree in 2005, 

the year we got married.

And would you look at it last week?

Unfortunately this baby is getting the yank,

the top half is dead and way to close for our new 

two story garage structure.

These are the parts that are going to be hard.

But we do have the garden planted!

If we completely meltdown

and when all else fails,

we will run to the hills by our 

CABIN!

We are in fact headed up this afternoon,

I have to get going!

Hasta luego otra vez,

Biz