House Tour

This is our new house, 1950’s Brick Ranch. These pictures are from when we signed the contract after our house inspection.

You can’t even see the house! Zero curb appeal.  Plan on taking out a tree (or two) and we can’t decide on taking that big pine tree out or not. I think it’ll look awesome at Christmas time. We’ll see!

That’s my big picture window. I’ve always wanted one of those!! It was on the list of must haves for me. On the right, leading up those stairs baby is on, is an unheated mudroom, which has a door into the kitchen and back yard, all 4.75 acres of it! Which according to the husband, was the only thing on his must have list. I’m hoping that husband will tie in the stairs and the sidewalk leading to the front door.

Here are all the cabinets in the kitchen, which I must admit, I am a little apprehensive about. This house doesn’t have a pantry like our last place. I’m hoping that everything will fit here. Plus, the window looks over the back yard, which is nice.





This is where the oven and refrigerator must go, I’m hoping to either put a rolling cart in between the two for prep work and cooking storage.

Here is the opposite side of the cabinets, husband is coming from mudroom, baby is looking towards living room and the door on the left is to the full (unfinished) basement.  

Here we are in the living room, by the front door. Which, is all sorts of confusing, I’m not sure why the front door is on the complete opposite side of the driveway. I don’t think that door will be used much. The paint color? It’s much softer in person…however,  IT MUST GO! Off of the living room you have three bedrooms and a bath. One bedroom is right off the kitchen with two closets, which I want to convert that into the dinning room with a “cloffice” in one closet and I’m not sure what to do with the other closet. See that window below? I want to make that into a door or sliding glass door leading either to a sun room or a deck.

Oh, and I’d be a bad wife if I didn’t show a picture of our back yard.

Our Barn and Burn pile, with 4.75 acres, this is all I have a picture of. I’ve only gone out to the edge of the property line once. Came back with a cut on my foot and a splinter, apparently flip flops are NOT good shoes to where while exploring.

This is an Instagram picture I have of the grapes that are overgrown about halfway down the property.

Our plan for this weekend is going to look at paint chips. This is where I get nervous, I had a hard time choosing what to do for baby’s room when he was born, so I did nothing, short of picking out a bed set. I can’t wait for Young House Love's book to come out. Tip #213, conquer paint paralysis, but by the time I own that, we’ll be in our house with it already painted. ;) Hopefully.

Well, it’s just paint, doesn’t have to last forever.

9-18-12: I've linked up at a bowl full of lemons, one project at a time link party. I think I'm suppose to put a button on here... Can't figure it out, but here's the link!!! ha ha.