A house becomes a home

Here are a few snap shots of our house with our things inside. I will post a few rooms at a time over the next few weeks. To see a larger view of the pics, just click on the images and the picture will enlarge. Then click on your back arrow key to return to the post. I hope you enjoy these pics of our new home. We sure love it!!

The breakfast room. The room is so large we were able to put the leaf in our farm style table and we are really enjoying it this way. Kevin did a great job painting the room a light almond. As mentioned in a previous post...most all the rooms in the house have splotchy walls with a mismatched touch up paint. This room was the worst of all of them, so I am SO happy that Kevin painted this room before our furniture arrived. My favorite part of the room is my Mom's painting to the left of the window. My Dad gave it to me a few months ago and it is my most cherished possession. Isn't it beautiful!?

Kevin did a great job painting over the gold paint and pink/purple brackets. Now they are neutral and go with the sage green tile.

The family room. We are so excited to use the fireplace this winter. This couch used to be in our living room in our other house. I put away the formal pillows and put these casual striped pillows on the couch instead. Other than the leather chairs, the big screen t.v. and other family room furniture from our other house is now in the loft. (not done decorating the loft, will picture later)

Another shot of the family room.

The dining room. This room could be used as a dining room or living room. We chose to use it as a dining room. There is not light fixture above the table, so we will have candle light meals in here!

The entry way.

A shot of the kitchen. We need bar stools!

A closer shot of part of the kitchen. I love the maple cabinets

and the sage green tile is growing on me.

It seems to go well

with my Tuscan/country decor.
The dowmstairs guest room. This bedspread ensemble was new in our last home. We thought

it worked well in this room with the brown wall. We decided to keep the window coverings as they looked fine with everything.

Another shot of the guest room. The antique dresser was in my room as a child.

The downstairs guest bathroom. We decided to keep the lavender paint when I found this matching shower curtain and towel ensemble that went well with the color. I decided that priming and repainting this wall (including the ceiling) was more work than I was interested in! I actually LOVE the way it looks now. We replaced the bamboo shade for ivory mini blinds which lightened up the whole room.

another shot of the downstairs guest bathroom.

Stay tuned for more pictures of our new home in the days and weeks to come. We have several painting projects to complete as well as applying vinyl decorations to some walls. As the projects are completed we will share them.