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December 23: House tour with photos! (
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Finally got around to this one. The main reason this one took a while... the truth? My house is messy! It is a lived in, well-loved, constantly chaotic, world with two children under 5 years old, two working parents, and a dog! I am insanely jealous of Pinterest-worthy gorgeous homes that ought to be on the cover on Better Homes and Gardens magazine. People have beautiful Facebook-worthy homes with immaculately placed, perfectly matched color-coordinated accent pieces.
That is not my home! Are you ready for the house tour? *deep breath* (No judging!)
( Ready for the tour?? )
That concludes the tour. Thanks for taking a look at our home! Amazingly, our home is a surprising 1,300 square feet only. A lot of people are disbelieving of this fact, but as I have an architect for a husband and we are under extensive renovation, I think I'm pretty sure. The space in the home is well utilized and there is a great flow through the ranch home. The long-narrow style (mostly two rooms wide; a room faces the front yard and a room faces the backyard) makes for a lot of great windows with lots of natural sunlight. A big maple tree in the front yard offers great shade in the summer. And of course, you've all heard about my park-like backyard...
Oh, and if you were wondering about what it looked like when we purchased it a year ago in 2013? Here are the photos they used on Realtor.com.
Top left would be the den (music room), we didn't change the wall color at all, so it's the same room, just with our furniture.
Top right would be the living room with the fireplace. We changed the wall color from taupe to a blue gray, as we have taupe sofas and we knew that would look awful... oh, just like the picture below... There are also two small cabinets below the display windows, that the previous owners painted the same brown color as the walls. We changed it to pure white.
Bottom left is the living room. We changed the wall color to the same blue gray as the living room and removed the window valences.
Bottom right is the master bedroom. It was a bluish-green shade that we painted blue. (Brian said "not blue! Again!!!), removed the valences, and based on these pictures, you'd think a grandma in her 80s lived here, but it was a young widow with a 4-year old son. Seriously, what's with the bedspread pattern?!
Yes, these photos were just taken two years ago, and these are the photos used to list the property for sale!
koyaaniisqatsi)Finally got around to this one. The main reason this one took a while... the truth? My house is messy! It is a lived in, well-loved, constantly chaotic, world with two children under 5 years old, two working parents, and a dog! I am insanely jealous of Pinterest-worthy gorgeous homes that ought to be on the cover on Better Homes and Gardens magazine. People have beautiful Facebook-worthy homes with immaculately placed, perfectly matched color-coordinated accent pieces.
That is not my home! Are you ready for the house tour? *deep breath* (No judging!)
( Ready for the tour?? )
That concludes the tour. Thanks for taking a look at our home! Amazingly, our home is a surprising 1,300 square feet only. A lot of people are disbelieving of this fact, but as I have an architect for a husband and we are under extensive renovation, I think I'm pretty sure. The space in the home is well utilized and there is a great flow through the ranch home. The long-narrow style (mostly two rooms wide; a room faces the front yard and a room faces the backyard) makes for a lot of great windows with lots of natural sunlight. A big maple tree in the front yard offers great shade in the summer. And of course, you've all heard about my park-like backyard...
Oh, and if you were wondering about what it looked like when we purchased it a year ago in 2013? Here are the photos they used on Realtor.com.
Top left would be the den (music room), we didn't change the wall color at all, so it's the same room, just with our furniture.
Top right would be the living room with the fireplace. We changed the wall color from taupe to a blue gray, as we have taupe sofas and we knew that would look awful... oh, just like the picture below... There are also two small cabinets below the display windows, that the previous owners painted the same brown color as the walls. We changed it to pure white.
Bottom left is the living room. We changed the wall color to the same blue gray as the living room and removed the window valences.
Bottom right is the master bedroom. It was a bluish-green shade that we painted blue. (Brian said "not blue! Again!!!), removed the valences, and based on these pictures, you'd think a grandma in her 80s lived here, but it was a young widow with a 4-year old son. Seriously, what's with the bedspread pattern?!
Yes, these photos were just taken two years ago, and these are the photos used to list the property for sale!
