A home maybe 10 years from now

I want a home. It does not matter if it is in the city, or out in the country with lots of space. I want to come home at the end of the day and snuggle with my family on our light tan leather couch, watching our forty inch flat screen TV hung over a fireplace made of stone, and eating popcorn. I want the walls and room to be warm terracotta and earth-tones. Not too far from the living area, I want a large kitchen to serve for family gatherings. I want medium to dark gray granite counter tops to wrap around the entire kitchen and come around to a bar, where the counter top will be twice as large. I would like at least a quarter of the kitchen to be open to the rest of the house. The rest needs to be filled with cabinets, high and low. I bake, and I have a lot of cake decorating supplies along with normal household items. I would like these cabinets to be either a medium to dark shade of wood, or black. I would put a lighter color of tile on the floor and back splash to make up for the darker counter tops and cabinets. A stainless steel double bakers oven, stainless steel refrigerator and a beverage cooler built in to the cabinetry, and lets not forget a dishwasher, I have never had one of those. I would like for my boys to have their own rooms designed with their own unique tastes, although they will probably end up sleeping together most of the time anyway :). I would like to have a master bedroom with a bathroom we don't have to share with little boys. The bedroom doesn't have to be ginormous (I love that spell check doesn't say ginormous isn't a word), just enough room for a Queen size bed, and enough room that two people can walk past each other without squeezing up against a wall. A walk in closet would also be great! It would be in our best interest to have an office as well, since Billy is a computer geek, and has all kinds of gadgets that the children shouldn't mess with. It would also give me a quiet place to do my homework. Another room that I have always wanted is library, or study area. I would have the walls lined with book shelves, from children's books to encyclopedias. I would have at least two tables with comfortable chairs, and maybe even some blocks and creative toys for the youngest little guys. Having a fireplace in here doesn't sound too bad either now that I think of it.

Reading does happen to be the key to education, and I hope by watching me graduate college, my boys will see the change in lifestyle that can come with an education. It i so hard to convince kids to go to college when most of the students insist that it is so much easier to go get a job and make money. Even if my boys happen to graduate and get a high paying production job, it will run out eventually. I can't do much to choose his friends, but I can set the best example possible.