The New House

Below are finally some pictures of the new house (at least the parts of it that were clean when I took the pictures!) I tried to take the pictures in a logical progression so that people could tell where all the rooms were and how they connected. Hopefully it worked. I am never able to do that so maybe some of you out there with better spatial perception will get it.

Here is the front of our house from the street. That is our little lawn that Jesson mows.

This is the view from the front door. On the right, where you can see the wall ending (past the 2nd table) is where the kitchen is. If you were to turn right immediately upon entering the house there are two small bedrooms. We use one of them as an office and another as a workout/scrapbooking/storage room. Neither room was particularly clean, so you don't get to see them right now, which is why I'm telling you about them.
This is a better view of our entryway that you could sort of see in the picture above.

If you walked in the front door and turned to the left this is what you would see. In the bottom left of this picture you can see the gray carpet that is in the entryway (just to give you your bearings). This is supposed to be the "formal" dining room. We don't have formal dining room furniture, so we turned it into a reading corner. We are currently working on upholstering two large (30" x 30") ottomans (one for each chair) that will make reading much more comfortable. For those of you that have been to our old house, that bookcase is actually the top part of the hutch that used to be in our dining room. We took it down, added a base, and painted it dark brown. Voila, instant bookcase. The door on the right hand side of the picture is our bedroom. Also not particularly clean so you will not be seeing it on this tour.

This is our family room. The door on the left hand side is our bedroom door again so you've just turned slightly to the right. The sliding doors on the right side of the picture go out to our backyard. More on that in a second.

A different view of our living room. Again, for those of you that have been to our old house, that is the same coffee table and end table, they just got painted along with the bookcase. We are tired of light colored furniture. The sliding doors lead to our covered lanai and fenced in back yard (which we and the dogs LOVE!) If you click on the picture to make it larger you can see it a little more clearly.

This picture was taken standing in front of the entertainment center and facing our kitchen and eating area. The front door is now to the right in this picture. We love the more open feel to this kitchen and the larger pantry (the double white doors on the left side).

And last but not least, this is the wall that goes from the kitchen (on the left) to the entryway (on the right). We still have some painting and furniture updating to do, and we are working on getting window treatments for the whole house, but it's a good start and a BIG step up from where we were living before. We love being in a house instead of an apartment or townhouse. It feels much more private and much more ours. Thanks for taking the tour, come visit anytime!