Our First Home

Hi Family and Friends!

So, as I was posting my summer blog posts about all my DIY projects I've done. I realized that my friends and family from far away still have not seen our first home! As a result, I am dedicating this post to a vitural tour of our first home!

This picture was taken on moving day after we closed on the house. Soooo, it was December 13th 2012 I believe? This December (2014) will mark year number two complete in our first home. So I think I did the math right there. 

 Here is our dining room. The dining room, kitchen and living room are all open to one another, which I love. Especially when we have company over for dinner, games or parties. I want a new rug in here though, I hate it. It is the cheap one we got just to have something when we first moved in.

The two pictures above are of the kitchen. The first one is looking in from the dining room. The second one is from the windowsill in the kitchen looking into the kitchen and into the dining room. 

The pictures above are of our downstairs living room. The first picture is looking in from the kitchen (right by the little side table you see in the second picture). The second picture is taken from behind the long couch and in front of the three white mirrors you see on the wall.

 Here is a picture of our bedroom. I couldn't really get a good picture of another angle cause it's actually kind of a small room. My furniture is also huge, so it can't all fit into the frame very well. I like the wall in this picture though because I did a little Pinterest project on the wall! We used a stencil to paint with a high gloss of the paint on the wall, so it's a settle pattern that you can only see when the light hits parts of it right.

 The pictures above are of our master bathroom. I like the way it turned out, I just redecorated it. It took me forever to get the tub to look a way that I liked enough that as balanced. I love love love the colors though. I also love the little table against the wall, a Hobby Lobby find, my favorite place! :)

 Here is a picture of our guest bathroom.

 These are two shots of our "office" it's actually a 4th bedroom, but it's so small, so its our office. I kind of hate this room the most cause it's just an eclectic place of random furniture. I hate that it doesn't flow and doesn't have any character to it.

Here's what I like to call my "boy room". When I have a boy one day, I imagine this to be the color scheme. I want it to have a woodsy, nature kind of feel. I am obviously lacking wall decor in this room. I just haven't found anything that goes with the theme I am looking for. 

The pictures above is what I imagine to be my "girl room" once I have a girl. My inspiration for this room was the purple, gold, and cream kind of tribal looking pillow. I love these colors! I also love antique "shabby" furniture, so I combined the two in here! I really like the way it turned out so far. 

SIDE NOTE: I know, I'm crazy for thinking my life will end up perfect and that I'll have one boy and one girl. I really want it that way. Zach only wants two kids ( I want three), but were compromising by having one and adopting the other, so I WILL have one of each, HA! I've had it on my heart for a long time to want to adopt, so hopefully we can get together the funds to make this happen!

Here's a pic of our wonderful laundry room where almost no laundry occurs. 

The pictures above are of our upstairs living room. This is all our old college furniture, plus two bookshelves up agains the banister I bought to house the old books from my old 2nd grade classroom. This is a teacher problem if I've ever seen one. At least Leah has a plethora of books to choose from when she comes over, so will my kids whenever I have them, because I REFUSE to get rid of them! I love books too much, clearly. I am also lacking wall decor in this room too. One room at a time, right?

Anyways, hope you enjoyed the tour of our first home! We sure do love it so far!! :) 

Thanks for checkin' in!