Our new* House - Before

Since this blog is here to catalog our adventures I have to include our new house. I am so excited about this! It's something we have been wanting since we first got married but we were never in one place long enough for it to make sense. But it's finally happen!

Here is our view of the front. It's an all brick exterior except for the entry which has siding (It need some repair but it's fairly minor)

There is a little courtyard off the front. You can't really see it because of the overgrown bushes. To me it seems a little odd because it's a little incomplete but I think it will be my favorite feature when it's all said and done.

Before I take you inside here is a layout of our house as it currently stands.The items in the pictures are not perfectly to scale, but the rooms are all the right size. Also, the house is a little maze-y (it's a word) and I don't want you to get lost.
 

When you first walk in there is this hallway that is very dark except when you open the front door. See that light far off in the distance? It's the only light for the hallway.

To the left is the office (future playroom/office)

And to the right is the Living room. There is a giant - oh no, sorry, GIANT fireplace and on the opposite wall is a large sliding glass door (leading to that courtyard I was telling you about earlier.) Fun fact, apparently in 1978 it was super cool to get dried mold and put it on the fireplace before you seal the rock. So we got that.

Don't you just love those drapes? Think I might need to make a dress.

If you go through those french doors beside the fireplace (being moved) you are in the dining room. I should really get a close up of that chandelier - it's my favorite. Then sliding doors go to our backyard.

 

And this part of the reason we bought this house. It's pretty beaten up right now, I don't think they ever had grass back there or maybe they did but a long time ago. It is so spacious, though, plenty of room for the kids to run and play. 

 

Back inside. The kitchen is to the left and pretty dark. We are planning on taking down the cabinets separating the two spaces immediately in order to brighten it up.There is also another fireplace in the kitchen. I'm not really sure what to do with that right now.

Beside the fridge there is a doorway that leads to the hallway (you could see it in the entryway pictures.) Turning right you go down the maze of a hallway. There are two closets to the left followed our spiral staircase. Across from the spiral staircase is the kids bathroom complete with a yellow tub, toilet, and sinks. (By the way, Papa that painting is for you! It's a bull fighter.)

There's a giant closet. Actually all the closets are super sized, but this one is on a whole new level. If I remember right it's 4'7"x 4' 7" anyways, then you turn, and turn again and you are finally in the hall with the bedrooms.

         

The master is to the right has an en suite with a blue tub! (toilet, sinks) I grew up having a blue tub so it puts a smile on my face having one again.

Across from the master are two bedrooms

Backing up to our spiral staircase it take us down to the unfinished basement (which is very uncommon for our area.) The guys was some kind of welder or concrete guy or something because the evidence is all over the place.

The fireplace cuts this space in half. On one side there is a creepy bathroom that's walls don't go all the way up and what will eventually be 2 bedrooms (Yes, those are bars on the windows.)

The other side will be a family room and whatever else we decided.

Oh, the other half of the basement is the garage. It's not very glamorous.

 

But that is our new house tour! I will do another post too of all the fun things we have planned (It's a rather long to do list with several phases.) If you made it through all that, congratulations, I almost didn't :)