House Tour

I haven't really posted much about our house since we moved in. I don't know if I've been trying to wait until we got it all set up the way I want, or until it was all clean, or what....none of that has happened, but I still want to give a small, incomplete tour of our house, because we have a lot of family and friends who are unable (or unwilling *cough, cough* JACKSON) to come visit us to see it.

The front, I have posted this picture before.

Right inside the front door is the living room

As of right now, we don't have any furniture to go in the living room, so we put the computer in there so it wouldn't be empty. Some day, I plan on putting a piano, a couple of small arm chairs, and a coffee table in there, maybe a even a ficus.

From the living room, you walk through a little hall-like area, into the dinning room.

Here's the straight-on view of the hall area.

Off to the right of the hall, before you get to the dining room is a coat area and half bath.

Half bath and coat closet. I love the oval mirror.

To the left side of the hall, across from the bathroom is the garage door and an under-the-stairs closet

Keep walking, you'll make it to the dining room and kitchen.

I love our kitchen. Counter space galore! And the island in the middle is my favorite. I don't know how we ever lived without it.

Dining room/kitchen

The family room is on the other side of the dining room, so really the whole area is a big great room, which a love, because we like to have people over for dinner and we wanted a place to put everyone without feeling squishy. We got it.

The family room. I am in desperate want of new couches, but we have to do the sprinkler system and the grass first. And we haven't decided exactly how we'd like the room organized either, so we don't know what kind of couches to get. 

A different angle from the family room.

The dining room looking at the front door.

Looking out the sliding glass door at our backyard. They're digging a foundation on the lot behind ours, hence the giant dirt piles.

We finished our garden box, yay! And even though we're getting a super late start, we planted some tomatoes and zucchini, just to see if we could squeeze out some produce this year. Next year we'll have more in there for sure. And yes, our next door neighbor to the east is a corn field, and that puts me in small town heaven. :) Even though we're also only 5 minutes from the freeway, which puts Aaron in city heaven, so the location was an excellent compromise for both of us.

The back of the house

The side by the driveway.

And that will conclude our tour. I didn't do the upstairs because there were kids napping. I'll have to do that another day.

We love our house. The space and the layout is so perfect for our family. It has everything we need, and gives us room to grow.  It also has a lot of potential for us to make it our own. We don't have to undo anything anyone else has done, so we just get to start fresh and make everything the way we want it to be. Granted that takes time and money, so it can get a little frustrating that I can't make everything exactly how I want it right this moment. But every time we make progress it feels so great. Aaron is upstairs right now, building shelves in the school room closet so that I can get our school room organized and functioning. I mentioned that we just finished the garden box, and we have plans in the very near future to put in the sprinkling system and then get the lawn hydro-seeded. So little by little it's coming together and becoming our home. I hope we're here for a very long while. I want my kids to grow up here, and make great memories here. I love our house.