I'm sure we have lost our minds!

We have lived in this house since 1998 and finally purchased it from my father-in-law in 2007. We love the house, the layout is just really not very functional. The kitchen is very small, the bathroom feels like you're in a closet (you can brush your teeth, pee, and run your bathwater all at the same time!! EWWW!), to get from one room to another, you walk through other rooms (example...to get to the two back rooms which we use for a weightroom and a scrapbook room, you have to walk through out youngest daughters bedroom, you then walk through the oldest daughters bedroom and then you can access the scrapbook room and then the weightroom). I'm sure when the house was built it was used differently then how we are using it, but it's just not functional for a family of 5 in this day and age. The house has three front doors for some reason. There is one for the kitchen, one for the livingroom, and one that goes to our bedroom. I hate it! No one ever knows which one to walk up to the first time they're here! The stairs are very steep as are all stairways in old farmhouses. The upstairs is really unusable since there is no heat, only one outlet and the floor in the main bedroom is sunken in the middle. There is a nice walk in closet up there though...which also happens to be the ONLY closet in the house! We see a ton of possibility in the house, there's just a lot of work to be done to get it to where we would love it to be. I wanted to start this blog so we can keep track of our progress and to hopefully inspire others who are thinking of diving into this kind of remodeling. Well either inspire or scare off...I'm not sure which. lol! Anyway....on to the pictures