Name Change

Have you noticed that I changed the name of my blog?

 When I started this blog a few months ago, I had a creative block when choosing its name. 

Since the main focus of this blog is to share the transformation of each room in our house as we turn our house into "our" home, I decided to call it  

Room by Room.

I know, not very original.

I've never been completely satisfied with that name. 

Recently I decided to do a google search for Room by Room and it led me directly to the HGTV website!

Not good.

Then I remembered that they used to have show called Room by Room.

Really not good.

I don't want people to think I copied the name of a show!

So I spent a few days brainstorming and thinking about a new name.

This was a hard task.

I love cottage style decorating, so I knew that I wanted to have that word in the new name.

I looked up cottage in the dictionary to see if the actual meaning of the word would be a fit...

It made me love the word even more.

Okay, so my house isn't small.

And it isn't a vacation house, 

but I sure want it to feel like one 

(especially since we won't be going on a real vacation any time soon with our three little babes)! 

We are surrounded by many beautiful lakes and have gorgeous views of the snow-capped Cascade and Olympic Mountains, so that part of the definition totally fits.

So then I started thinking about all of the names of the lakes around us...

Flowing Lake

Panther Lake

Martha Lake

Storm Lake

Meadow Lake

Meadow Lake is the closest to us and we live in a neighborhood called

"Meadow Lake Highlands."

I didn't like the names of any of the other lakes anyways.

So there you have it.

Meadow Lake Cottage because I want our house to feel like a vacation home nestled amongst the mountains and lakes.

I hope you will join us as we transform this 'new construction home' into our homey cottage.