House Tour

Meet our baby. I say baby not because our house is young (it’s 70+… older than our grandparents), but because that’s how we view it – it’s something we worked hard together to “create,” we love it, we’re proud of it, and now we’re embarking on a journey to raise our little fledgling bungalow from our first house to our first home.

Here’s a little video we took for Blogiversary Week 2012.

This is the exterior of the Little House. When we moved in there wasn’t much grass, a lot of shrubs, and one magnificent live oak (the previous owner proposed to his wife under it!). So far this summer we’ve managed to remove the shrubs, plant real, live flowers, and make new pillows for our Adirondacks. We have even more plans, though. Like grass. Real, legit, not-just-dirt-grass.

And in progress:

Step inside the front door and you immediately enter our living room. I am in love with our fireplace. And crown molding. And the gray wall color we chose. We’ve actually updated a couple of  things since the progress photo was taken, so we’ll hopefully be able up add an updated one soon.

And in progress:

The living and dining room have seen the most updating since we’ve moved in. The dining room is quite a bit smaller than the living room, but it has two great windows. Also, the light fixture isn’t centered over the dining room table. My engineer-OCD-ness can hardly handle it, so recentering will (hopefully) be one of the next projects we tackle.

Isn’t the arched doorway wonderful? Here is a progress shot:

The Kitchen: It’s small, but a lot bigger than our previous apartment kitchen. I love the butcher block counters and all the light! The previous owner had gutted the kitchen and added Ikea cabinets/counters, so all we will likely change is the floor and paint color. So far, all we’ve done in here is to move in my truckload of kitchen gadgets.

And in progress:

The spare bedroom: This room has five huge windows. If it had more closet space, the hubs and I might switch rooms. Again, all we’ve done in here is move in furniture. That red wall and cieling fan are definitely on the chopping block.

And in progress:

Master Bedroom: We love all the windows of the guest room, but the closets in this room (and its a little bit bigger) sold us on choosing this as our master bedroom.

And in progress:

And now:

The Office: This little room was originally a screened-in porch that was closed off to make a small back room. We’re working on making this space a functional office/mudroom.  We had originally hoped to make it a large master bath, but as it’s the only way out to the back yard, we decided that wasn’t feasible. We pieced together our built in desks from Ikea. Next up in this room is new flooring. The carpet is gross!

And in progress:

The Bathroom: We don’t have a before shot of our bathroom, but little has changed. We painted the walls a green color matched (then lightened by a few shades) to the green tile. I sewed curtains and hemmed the shower curtain as well. Other than that, we’re holding off on this room until we can completely gut and reno it.

Finally, the Laundry Room: It’s really not a room, it’s a former closet in the hallway directly across from the bath.