Home Tour 2011

So I’ll take you on a little tour of my house now.

This is how my house sits in relation to the neighbors’.

This is the floor plan of our house.  The basement isn’t included. It has one big room that is finished but only used for storing things under the kitchen and dining room and then two small rooms that are used for various laundry purposes under the living room. The washer and dryer are in one room, the ironing board in the other.

So when we moved in, I had all sorts of great plans for each room which quickly faded with lack of time, motivation and money. Not to say that I wouldn’t have tried, it just was that I was very particular in what I was looking for. And damn it, I have a wedding to save for.

The dog room is an uninsulated walled in porch that leaks every time it rains. Its cold enough back there that shutting the door from it to the rest of the house keeps the house much warmer. We had to get a little space heater so the dogs wouldn’t freeze. Originally, I was going to decorate this room with dog print curtains, shelves and bins for their toys, the old futon whenever I got new furniture and dog pictures. After realizing how much it leaked, all those plans were canceled. Now it just houses the dog crates, dog stuff and the recycling bin.

Our kitchen-some things have changed since then such as now having a Keurig machine on top of the microwave but in general it’s the same. The kitchen is light blue with some stupid pansy border. The color is nice enough but I’d love to change the border. Maybe something with chickens or bacon.

 

Our dining room-We never eat in here. Joe has called it the most grown up room in the house and I have to agree. I’m only showing the dining room table and the bookcase. I’m especially proud of the book case because I think it looks like it should be in a magazine or something. Just full of neat stuff. The other wall has my diplomas and another framed thing with my tassels and pictures in it. I’d like to get a chair, lamp and refinish a black coffee table I have and set it all near the book case. I’ve had a hard time finding the chair I want or justifying the money to spend on it.

This is our living room. Its pretty much the same because I have a hard time figuring out what I want to do with it. Its rarely every this clean. It needs new furniture. We’re very rough on furniture.

Bathroom-I’m only showing this little bit because I don’t think the bathroom has been cleaned since July. I got the shower curtain at Target but they didn’t have any accessories to go with it so I made those little pictures out of felt. The bathroom is like sage green with a horrible border. The bottom half of the walls is white tile. I’d like to get rid of the border and repaint a brighter spring green similar to what’s in the curtain. In a perfect world, I also have a border with trees and owls like on the curtain. Since that’s not going to happen, I’m actually considering making stamps and stamping a border out.

Joe’s room-I don’t have pictures because I don’t think he’d approve. Its very minimal. We sleep there.

   

My bedroom-I don’t sleep in here any more. There is still a lot of things that I would like to have done to it. First, some curtains-white with blue flowered trim. I’m going to cover the seat of that white chair in blue flowered material. That green lump on the bed is my comforter which is always covered in cat fur. That being said, I have king sized sheets that I’m sewing together to make a slip cover for it since that’ll be easier to wash. I’d also like an area rug and some hooks for my closet door to help me hang up the clothes that are either on the bed or that chair all the time.

This is my office/animal room/sewing room. I just got it unpacked. It has a lot of work to be done. I bought a big carpet for it which is blue so that now the rabbit can be let out to run around more often. I finally hung some more pictures including all of those cow pictures that I kept buying off of ebay or from that antique store in Indiana and I also hung my licenses from Missouri and PA. I’d really like to do some more work to this room. Originally, I was going to have a bird theme to it because I have a cool birdcage hung in the window. I was going to get some bird prints off Etsy but then I remembered the cow photos. I wanted the room to be very girly since I sew in it but I like the cows too. I’m going to make some curtains in here too. I’d like to replace the milk crates with a book case. I’d like Joe to get around to hanging my green medicine cabinet. I’d like one of those fabric and ribbon bulletin boards for above my sewing table so I can put my ideas on it. I’d like a vintage dress makers form. I found one but decided I didn’t like it well enough. The one I really want is $350!

So that’s my house. I’m not sure if we’re planning on staying in it or not. If I can’t find a place with land in Newville, then we probably will since we’ve worked hard at destroying it already.