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Project Hennessy: Gate

Okay, I must admit, I am still lazy to choose photos for our wedding photo album. These days, I've been spending time surfing the net to do my research on designing our house. Yes, my husband and I have been planning this since last year and finally, we're almost there.

I learned a lot from my parents in planning our house. Just last year, 6 months before I got married, my family moved in to a beautiful home not far from our old house and a year before the transfer, I saw how my mom and dad prepared for this milestone. They spent weekends in hardware and home furniture shops and used their free time surfing the net to get ideas designing the house.

While Lester and I were in the search of looking for house, my dad introduced me to Houzz.com. It's like a magazine full of house design ideas all over the world. I downloaded the app last year and did a little browsing. For a while, I forgot about this app and was busy preparing for our wedding. And time flew so fast, now that I am using it.

Project Hennessy -that's how I call it (I called our wedding event as Project Whiskey). Though this time, I do not have an excel file with target dates and budgets, we know this is the first thing (or second or third, after choosing the location and price - the design of the house is common in our subdivision) we need to build before we move in - Gate.



Execution will always be the hardest part but I know we'll make this happen. Happy planning everyone, this is fun! 

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