How to Recreate on a Budget

I have the ideas for each room of the house, now I need to find the materials and the contractors that can make my ideas work within a very tight budget.  Let's start with the first floor. These pictures are not my own I have copied them from other blogs I have followed for the past year. 

Family Room that's open and off the kitchen.  Love the lighting, the fan and all the seating.

Love this Kitchen for all the windows.  I must have my sink facing the backyard looking out windows.

I love the color scheme of this kitchen.  I want to do a mix of black and white cabinets with honed absolute granite and white marble.  Now I just need to figure out island vs. perimeter.

I love how this porch wraps in to the kithen and the family room with french doors.  Must have!

Cotton Before Design

I've got 10 months to take a very old house and turn it into everything I hope it can be for my family. I like a good deal, and I love to design but I am curious myself if I can turn this home into something that I proud of with a very tight budget.  My design experiece is limited to a complete bathroom renovation in my previous home, which I loved. 

The Bathroom I designed in my old house. 

But as you will see below my new project is much bigger.  This is the exterior, which is such an eye sore.   I am in much debate about what to do with the exterior and what colors to work with; white, gray, yellow . .oh my.

We bought the home for it's big back yard.  With 3 boys that love sports and sporting equipment I looked for a home that could fullfill my dreams to design, and my dreams to get them outside to play!

We'll I think I need to get off my PC and get back to my kids.  My plan for future posts is to show the progress of the home room by room.  So I will post the before pictures and the procress of the construciton along with my design ideas for the space.  My ideas file is already over flowing - so I hope I can accomplish what's in my head.