Move-in Day Pictures

Time for a house tour!! I wanted to document how the house looked very soon after moving in so I can look back at them and keep track of our progress! It's going to take forever to decorate this house, mostly because things are expensive and our plan is to slowly buy nice, quality things we love as we save up rather then buy a bunch of filler stuff to that we'll want to replace down the line!

Here's the best picture I have from the front and it's raining right now so I'm not running out to take another one. See that tree on the right hand side with the bad hairdo? My dad diagnosed the tree with bagworms and cut off all the dead branches. Derrick cut off the rest last night and we've sprayed it down with insecticide so hopefully the tree can be salvaged by next year!

When you come into the house you have the dining room immediately on your left and the office immediately on the right. Derrick's Mom has offered to give us her dining room table, chairs, and hutch which will look fabulous! We pick them up in a couple weeks. For now, our old kitchen table is acting as place holder.

We don't have office furniture yet. My parents have a desk they are going to give us if we can get it up here...that's going to be the tricky part so we'll have to wait and see if we can make that happen. Without furniture, it means the room will look like this for a while.

At the back of the house is the kitchen and living room. The kitchen is HUGE and I love it! If you would have asked me before this house, I was looking for a white kitchen with lighter counter tops. This one is the complete opposite but it totally works for me!

This is the eat-in area next to the kitchen and pretty much looks exactly like this still. We don't have a kitchen table so this is going to be another space that stays empty for a while until we get one.

Living room!I love the huge windows! I'm currently on the hunt for a rug for this space but the size is giving me issues. I've taped out a couple options on the floor and I think we're going to end up with a 6x9...now I just need to find the right one! We're also going to replace that wing-back chair and probably the other chair as well cause it's small and will be a better accent somewhere else.

This is the downstairs guest room and is very bare but looks the cleanest and most finished at the moment. It has an attached bathroom that just got a shower curtain today...progress!

Down the hall from the guest room is the laundry room, half bathroom, and garage.

No joke, this is what the garage looked like on moving day. My dad came in and spent about an hour in here and created this. It was amazing. I was planning on taking all of that furniture to the dump. He didn't know that so came in with fresh eyes and created the most perfect work space and storage area.

Here's the master! I promised this was a candid tour...nothing pretty to see here. Since this photo was taken we've taken the bed back off the risers, moved the end tables closer, hidden the cords and gotten rid of the miscellaneous stuff on the floor. Far from complete but functional and pretty enough for now.

My favorite part!!! Excuse the picture, I stole it off of the listing because I've already made a change in there I want to share. Isn't is amazing though??? That's a custom closet organization system that blows my mind. I feel so fancy! And we have all of our clothes neatly stored in here and NOTHING in that dresser in the bedroom. It's crazy!

Here's our bathroom!  A lot has changed in here, but mostly just unpacking. Now there is just one small box that I've been too lazy to drag into the bedroom but other then that this appears to be a clean, functional bathroom. We are loving the space in here!

Outside our bedroom is what we've dubbed the super bowl room. When we first looked at the house they had it staged in such a way that the downstairs living room looked tiny. This was the space that made up for it. The original plan was to get a sectional but with the current set-up I think we're going to leave it like this for a while. This room has had a major change in the form of a gigantic TV.

This is the look-out area over the foyer from the super-bowl room.

The yellow room! It will most likely stay just like this until we need it for a kid down the road. This yellow is killing me though. The cover on the light makes the light really muted and dark and only having one window makes this room super dark. I will be ready to paint this one when we finally get to that point but it will sit with the door shut for a while.

This has been dubbed the puzzle loft. It's going to be a craft studio/game room! The kitchen table that is currently in the dining room is going to come up here for a large work surface and then we can really whip this room into shape!

Last but not least is the pink room! We were going to leave this room shut for a long time too but then Holly and Alexander said they were giving this bed and mattress set away so we jumped on it to make a second guest room for the time being. This room will also be getting a coat of paint at some point but for now it's not going to get much use so it'll sit just like this for now!

I don't have any pictures of the back deck and yard but I'll post some later! For now we're just slowly figuring out where to put all those knick knacks and pesky little things that need a spot and trying to remember to drive here instead of our apartment after work :)