Some Wiggle Room For Our Little Shoe!

Today, marks another step in the right direction for our future "boot" and getting out of this little "shoe."  True it is one step out of a few that have been occurring and will be occurring over the next two years or so; but it brings us one step closer towards getting our larger house and yard just the same.  In the meantime as our family is about to grow to a family of six, we are finding other means and methods to make some wiggle room for our little shoe (a.k.a. our house).  And if any of you do not understand my choice of words in regards to our house, please read the previous blog post.

Anyways, in order to make this house work for a family of six for a bit, we have made some plans and begun some projects to help increase our space.  For example, it works out for us that we are expecting another son; and so we will have Scot and my master bedroom, one bedroom for the girls and one bedroom for the boys.  The girls are already in bunk beds, but the boys will not be able to do that as of yet as they will both be too young to have a top bunk in their room for now.  Therefore, as Little Man will use the toddler bed he is currently in when he hasn't decided that sleeping on the floor is a better more comfortable bed, A Mac will be sleeping in a micro- or what is known as a mini-crib.

We have some other plans as well, but I will talk about them as we go.  In the meantime, we have started our kitchen renovation.  My kitchen is cute but rather small.  The cabinets are old and nasty, so with the desire to replace them and a great deal that Scot found, we purchased new cabinets (paid in full with cash) and have begun our project which includes a new microwave over our oven and stove top freeing up much needed counter space for food prep for a family of six!  Even amongst the orderly chaos, I am excited about what has occurred already!  The kitchen reno also forced us to purge things, which is a vital aspect of living in a small house. 

We did not take before pictures, but you will have to take my word on the added counter space and kitchen renovation benefits.  Also, our new entertainment center that I posted a picture of a while back provided us with much needed additional storage space.  With its larger size that extends the living room wall and the shelves and drawers, there is much more space to store things than having the wasted wall space that we had previously. 

Like I had written earlier, we have other projects planned.  We have plans for our bathroom, each children's bedrooms, dining room and utility closet/pantry.  Some plans may include a piece of furniture in just the right locale or some may include a little bit more of an extensive adventure; regardless, it will add wiggle room to our little house, which has become known as our little shoe.  I will try to remember to take before and after pictures as we go, as long as you don't laugh at some of the before pictures!!  LOL!   I will be glad to show you how just a little bit of saving, planning and patience can afford you a lot in the end. 

Oh and one idea that we used with this renovation that may come in handy for you is as follows: knowing that we were going to spend a certain amount of $$'s at Lowe's, Scot went to Kroger where we are Kroger Plus customers and bought Lowe's gift cards that would go towards our rewards so to speak.  We used the gift cards at Lowe's where we were already planning on spending a chunk of change and well we got gas points on our Kroger customer plus account, and so I went to Kroger gas this morning and got...drum roll please $2.00 off of each gallon of gas I put in my tank today!!  YEAH BABY!  All Scot's idea and doing by the way... gotta give the credit where credit is due!!