This is home!
Some days I am still needing to pinch myself that this is our home. I wanted to share the listing pictures because we have been doing so much work that it is going to look so different from when these were taken.
This is the front of the house taken from the road. My plan is to paint those shutters black, maybe hang some flower boxes and I am trying to decide it we will paint the door black or go with a different color.
This is the view when you walk in the front door. To the right is the living room and to the left is the dining room. Straight back the hallway leads to the bathroom, kitchen, second hallway area and laundry room. Up the stairs leads to our bedrooms.
The living room. We already have the walls painted, new carpet to be installed Friday and we still need to paint a fresh coat of white paint on all the trim.
This is the dining room. I have big dreams for this room. I plan to keep it as a dining room however behind that paneling is another fireplace and I cannot wait to get it exposed. We are going to paint all the paneling in here white, install a new chandelier and that little closet is going to become my craft closet. I am looking for an old buffet to put in here as well!
The door in the dining room leads into the kitchen.
We have the carpet in here ripped up and are in the process of picking out the new flooring. I have all the cabinets taken apart and painted. This weekend we should have the green upper section of the walls painted, cabinets back on and new flooring ready to install next weekend. Checkout that little window above the kitchen sink, I love it! It only opens into the laundry and backdoor area but it adds character, which this house is not lacking. One of my favorite parts, well there is a list of probably 10 favorite things, are all the original doors.
Leaving the kitchen leads you into the backdoor/laundry and extra hallway area and then into the bathroom. This whole area was an add on when it was necessary to have indoor facilities instead of using an outhouse out back.
The bathroom is actually a little bigger than the pictures make it look. I plan on leaving it alone for a little while other than replacing the flooring in here.
Going back out the hallway to the front of the house will take you upstairs. I love the staircase but do wish the original wood would have been left. It was probably so pretty back in it's glory days. At this time stripping all the paint is way to big of a project but maybe sometime in the future we will restore it to its prime.
To the left at the top of the stairs is the oh so lovely red climbing wall room. This will be the Small Fry bedroom. The kids will be sharing a room until we have a contractor come in and possibly separate the bedroom. The only reason we would eventually do that is if this second baby is a boy, if it is a girl they will be sharing bedrooms for sure.
To the right at the top of the stairs is the master bedroom. There is a big walk in closet in this room as well. I am so excited to have a big closet again! We had decent walk in closet when we lived on Dillon Road and it was just so nice to have a place for all of our clothes.
Going out the backdoor leads you to the back porch and backyard. We also have a garage and spring house with fresh spring water and well as a well for when there is a drought. One of our big investments is going to be fencing in the backyard so Rowan and Tyson don't go exploring out by the road. We still need to agree on the type of fence we are going to put up.
We still have lots of work to do but I cannot wait to get officially moved in and be able to be there more so we can knock out these projects faster. Move in date is set for this weekend so fingers crossed that that sticks and we can actually do it!!!
