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Getting Started By MEGHAN BRYANT
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s a child my family moved houses more times than I could count, and I switched schools 11 times. That might sound like a disjointed childhood, but it wasn’t. My dad had a job that required him to move around the country and I absolutely loved it. I loved the excitement of discovering my new room and lying awake at night thinking about how I would decorate it with the small amount of possessions I owned as a child. It’s probably why when I met my future husband Matt at 17 and he told me we would forever be moving houses because he already had so many design ideas, I shrugged and said “okay.” Most people hate the idea of packing up their lives and moving house, but I enjoy it. Even more so now than when I was a child because instead of just being able
to decorate a bedroom, I have the whole house. Matt and I have lived in three different homes together. The first was one he owned and renovated with his brother, the second we built together, the third we renovated in six weeks together, and now we are building our new home. This time, it’s a family home, because we’re joined by our one-year-old son Billy. In May 2019 Matt sat at our
kitchen table and drew a rough plan of what he wanted our home to look like, and it only took one or two revisions and he had the layout perfect. We enlisted the help of Alisco Designs to bring the design to life and it was even better than we imagined. Our new home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a kitchen and butler’s pantry, mud room,
library, and the four living areas include the main area, media room, kid’s retreat as well as an outdoor area with a firepit. That may sound like a lot, but the home is 315sq m, which is only slightly above the standard-size home for a
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