Picking out windows, doors, siding, roofing and our wood burning stove!!

Last week we ordered our windows! They are going to be pretty big.  The kitchen window is 4'x3', the mudroom and the two front windows will be 3'x4' (3 wide and 4 tall), and the bathroom will have two windows that are 3'x1', and they will be side by side at the very top of the shower stall.

Today I'm at the library for a few hours in search of pictures of board and batten siding with different colors of metal roofing.  I am 99% sure of what I want - it's a gray/brown color (I think - I left the paper with the colors on it at the trailer, oops!).  Both our neighbors have a green roof so we want something just a little different. 

And both our neighbors have wood or log siding so ours is going to be wood as well, but different.  One neighbor has a log cabin and the other has horizontal wood siding.  We are doing the vertical board and batten for something just a little different. 

And finally, we will NOT have central air or heating.  We will have a wood burning stove. We do know that we want the front to be glass so when we are cozying up in the living room, we can see the flames burning.  Not 100% sure which we are going with, but we did find this stove that I have fallen in love with!!

http://www.woodlanddirect.com/Wood-Stove-and-Accessories/Wood-Stoves-Small-under-1500-sqft/Osburn-900-Wood-Stove

UPDATE
Nothing much new to update - we have 2 full rows of the 4'x8' sheeting on, plus another 13" row.  We still have the top full sheet to put up, but we are both too short to do it safely ourselves, so we are renting a 'lift' this weekend to put that up along with the sheeting on the roof and all the insulation that is on the roof too.  Soon I'll have a visual for you all with the insulation we are doing - 4" of foam insulation on the walls and 8" of foam insulation on the room - then the metal/wood will be attached over it.  Then we will add the typical insulation in the walls of the house too. 

We figured since this will be our forever home we want to do it right!!  TONS of insulation.  Plus we did triple duty on the hurricane ties.  Scott said he thinks you really only need to add them to tie the trusses to the top plate of the walls, but we also added them on EVERY stud and connected to the top plate and also on EVERY stud to connect to the bottom plate too!  Scott also said that the typical contractor only uses 2500 nails to secure the walls and the sheeting - well we have used about 3 times that amount, so far!!

Nothing else new to report on today... should have lots of pictures for you next week once we get the roof sheeted and all the insulation on.

Have a great week/weekend!!