Welcome, Welcome!

I kept waiting to show you guys our new house until it was completely put together and complete, but I don't know if that will actually happen anytime soon so I figured I'd just go ahead with a tour.

So, without further adieu.... welcome to our first home! We fall in love with it more and more each day!

Here's the view from our front yard. I may be biased, but I think we have the cutest little house in the neighborhood!

When you first walk in, we have a small entryway. The living room is to the right, the dining room/kitchen is straight ahead, and the hallway to the bathroom and the bedrooms is forward and to the left. *Maya loves to have her picture taken so as soon as I got the camera out she was trying to pose in front of every shot. I got her out of the way for most, but she insisted on being in this one.

Here's the view of our living room from the entryway. The doorway on the left leads to the kitchen. Here are two shots from the other side of the living room, facing towards the entryway. *We are planning to lower the mirror above the entry table a bit... we just haven't got around to it yet :) Here's the kitchen. This picture was taken from the doorway between it and the living room.
Another shot of the kitchen. The oven is original, from 1957.
This is my favorite part of the kitchen. Check out how spacious this cupboard is. No more digging around in a tiny bottom cabinet for what pot or pan I want to use!
The kitchen has granite counter tops and a marble tile back splash, which was a great update. We replaced the old vent-a-hood with this new black one and are in the midst of a renovating the cabinet above it, as you can tell.

This is the pantry that Kolby's grandfather built for us. He built it to match our other cabinets, so it looks great and gives us a lot of extra storage space. The pantry is directly across from the end of the counter with the stove, and you walk between them to get from the kitchen to the dining area.
This is our dining area. The doorway in this picture leads to the entryway and the hallway to the rest of the house.
Here's a shot of the entire dining and kitchen area. We replaced both light fixtures and painted the walls taupe. On the left is the glass door that leads to our backyard.
The back door is Maya's FAVORITE spot. She loves laying there and keeping watch over what's going on outside.
Our house has one hallway and the first stop is the guest bathroom.
I LOVE this vanity. We love all of the updates that the previous owners did to the house, namely the kitchen counter tops and the complete renovation of the bathrooms, but this is my favorite thing that they did. Just for fun, here's a shot of the beautiful shower.
One great thing about this house is the unbelievable amount of storage space it has given its size. This is a cabinet in the guest bathroom and it is as deep as that shower wall. So nice. This is the aforementioned hallway. This photo was taken from the guest bathroom. Just to put the floor plan into perspective: the front of the house is behind me, the living room is to my right and is at the front of the house, the kitchen/dining area is to my right and is at the back of the house, the guest rooms are the first and third doors to the left, and the master bedroom is straight ahead. The other doors in this picture are closets, including a laundry closet. The entry, living room and hallway are all painted the most beautiful green paint color I've ever seen. I would never have had the guts to paint my house this color, but we both absolutely love it and it works perfect in this house. Please note the fresh WHITE trim in this photo... it was such hard work but it turned out so great. The same goes for the new hardware on the doors.
We use the first spare bedroom as an office. This is the room I'm most embarrassed to post a picture of because it is certainly our biggest work-in-progress, but I'll just put up some better pictures once we get it more in order. Eventually, I'll have a nice clear desk to use, Kolby will have his own large corner desk to use, I'll have a folding table to use for taking care of bills, filing, etc., and Kolby will have recliner to sit and read in. We use our second spare room as a guest bedroom. We inherited this furniture from my college roommate who didn't want to take it back to Florida with her when she graduated. We stored it last year but decided to pair it with an air mattress and use it here because having a twin bed makes the space more roomy and we aren't expecting too many overnight guests since the majority of our friends and family live nearby.
We decided to keep the armoire that goes with our master bedroom set in this room for now. You'll notice all of the bedroom walls are bare because we haven't gotten around to decorating them yet. One day, maybe. Also, we aren't in love with any of the bedroom wall colors but we like them enough to keep them as is until we feel inspired to repaint. It'll probably be a couple years, though; they just aren't that bad and I have no idea what I'd want instead.
I keep all of my work clothes in the guest room closet. There's so much room in there and it keeps our master closet from getting too crowded.
We have a built-in telephone stand, which I think is really neat. We're hoping to find a vintage black telephone to keep there at some point.
Finally, here is our master bedroom. Again, there's nothing on the walls yet so I'm sorry for how bland it looks.
We have three large windows in our bedroom and they all face our own backyard, which is nice.
Here's our bathroom.

I had to stand in the shower to take this picture, but I wanted to show off the wall of cabinets we have :). It's a ton of storage and is much more convenient than having just one cabinet under the sink like a lot of bathrooms this size have.
Here's a shot from our bedroom back into the hallway, and our closet is there on the left.
I had never even heard of these before, but we have an attic fan. Apparently this is what they put in houses before central A/C came along. Our house does have central A/C now, but this thing is so nice to use during the spring and fall because we can open the windows and turn it on and the whole place stays cool without using hardly any electricity at all.
Well, that pretty much concludes the tour. I'm throwing in this last picture so I can spend a moment talking about how much I love our wood floors. They are original to the house and are the pride and joy of this place. They creak with every step and the sound brings joy to my heart. At first I was nervous about the color because it is lighter than what is in style these days, but I've completely come around on it because it provides a great contrast to all of our dark wood furniture and the floors show NOTHING. We have a husky, so we're no stranger to dog hair around here. But the floors don't show it at all, and when we want the floors clean--- we can sweep and mop and know that they are spotless. Our apartment had nasty burber carpet and Maya's hair clung to it like velcro so the floors were always covered in dog hair, despite endless vacuuming attempts. It was sick. But not anymore! And speaking of cleaning, we can plug the vacuum into the outlet in the guest bathroom and vacuum the entire house without having to unplug it. That's how we know this place is just our size!

So there you have it! Once we get our new fence finished and stained, I'll post some pictures of our backyard.

We are head over heels in love with our house and feel so blessed to have found such a perfect place for our family. If you're ever in the neighborhood, stop by and see us!