We will finally have an extra room for many different purposes. The room will serve as a study, guest room, crafts room and probably many other purposes too.
So far it has been hard to prepare teachings at home, with kids running around and the only place where to sit and prepare has been by the kitchen table. So most of the preparations have been made while the kids have been at school/base or then late night when everyone is sleeping.
 
The room is planned to be about 18,5 m2 or about 200 sq ft, so we will have space for a queen size bed and a dividing bookshelf to create a bit of privacy for the office space that will have a desk with a comfortable chair, we will have room for our books (and more to come) and all of the crafts/scrapbooking things that Laura has & will get.
 
It will be great to have a place set apart for our computer, so it will not be laying around in our living room all the time.
It will also be great to have a place to host guests, without having them sleep on the floor in our boys’ room (although if families come, their kids might still do it) or at the base. So far we have had several people visit us, and have had to rent an extra house for them (and it is not available anymore) or to have them stay at the base (like my mom is doing at this very moment I write this).
 
So all in all, we are super excited to have some more room, and to be able to host people without having to work out how to do it. And what a joy it will be to prepare teachings without all the fuzz attached to the preparation.

Oh the wonderful day when we get to have our own walk-in closet for the clothes!
Right now we are sharing a smallish wardrobe as a whole family! We have one little shelf each for our clothes with Laura, and the boys are sharing one shelf.
Needless to say that we are tired of having no space for our clothes!
Also for storing our luggage, they are right now situated on top of the wardrobe!
 
In our new closet we will have several shelves for each of us, and I am planning to light every shelf with LED lights, so that we will not have some dark places (where the possible scorpions could hide, and get us with their nasty little stingers).
 
I am visioning a closet that will add organized storage space for us, where our luggage will not be visible to our room any more. But most important is the fact that our clothes will be in order, and we will have enough hanging space for clothes too.
 
I never knew one could get such a joy out of thinking about a walk-in closet. I guess our house and the space we have right now, is just not enough to feel joy about it, even though we are super thankful for having a roof over our heads.

This time we will have my lovely wife Laura writing the blog, so Laura this post is all yours!
 
I love to have people over and have dinner with us! It´s great to hang out and talk and enjoy good food with friends- and even make new friends by doing that. I love to be hospitable in that way.
Sometimes it has been frustrating to try to cook in our tiny kitchen, and trying to fit everyone around our table that´s meant for 4 people- someone has to sit on our sofa table, because there´s not enough chairs:). Now, having the plans for the new house I´ve started to dream about the new kitchen. That I could actually fit to do everything in the kitchen area, and not needing to use the dining table, or sofa table to spread out my cooking pans, since I don´t have enough counter space. That we could have a bigger table where we could fit more guests to sit.  And yes, I´m absolutely dreaming about having an isle in the kitchen (because they look so cute) and also I am dreaming of a dishwasher!! (I know Kimmo dreams about that one too, haha!) We will also put a Finnish “astiankuivauskaappi” (a cabinet for drying dishes), just because we´re Finns, I guess. We will also want to get an electric oven, because even though the gas stove is great and fast, I´ve had enough trouble of trying to bake in the gas oven!
 
It´s not very typical here that people buy a full kitchen, they rather just buy things that happen to be on sale or they like it, and many times they can quite mix and match combos. We´ve looked into some full kitchens, but the prices seem to be quite high. Not quite, I mean REALLY high. And those moments I really miss IKEA, where I could get an affordable kitchen. We have even considered of bringing a container from the States or somewhere and load it up with furniture and home appliances (and the kitchen) because those things are expensive here. But I guess the taxes and the transportation would make it quite high as well. Well, we just have to keep looking and hoping and praying we could find some affordable and nice looking options!
 
Thank you for reading!
Laura
 
PS.  By the way, it just makes me really happy when I find something pretty (to my taste) with a good price here (not so typical!). One day I found a store, where they have reeaally cute lamps in good prices! I felt like a winner :D