Our house

As of Monday we finally have the entirety of our belongings in one place (more importantly all in one town), so I figured it was due time for a post about our (new-to-us) house.  Beware, this post is picture heavy!

Well there you have it.  That's our house.  To answer your question, no the entire thing is not ours.  We live on the second floor of this side of the house, but it is actually a four-plex.  These houses are enormous including a 3-room basement on each side, and 2-room attic with walk-in closets on each side.  Since we share this space with the family downstairs, we get the 2-room attic, and 1 room in the basement, equal right?  Honestly, I've been in the basement once, and that was just to see what it looked like, we have nothing down there, and need to tell the other family they can use it.  Our 2-room attic is plenty of storage space for us seeing that we came from a 2 bedroom apartment.  I'm enjoying spreading out more in our 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house here.

 The front porch/entrance.

This is what you find when you walk in our front door.  Pretty stairs up to our house.  Notice though you will only see one set of stairs in pictures today.  Yes, these are very pretty, the back stairs (which we actually use) are not so pretty, I would even venture to say, ugly.  If you come visit, please come to the front door!

 This is the before and after of our living room.  We love the hardwood floors, but are thinking a rug, and dust mop are in the near future.

The dinning room is definitely too big for our stuff, but I really enjoy eating all of our meals in here.  We even had friends over for dinner last night, and it served the four of us perfectly.

This is our narrow little kitchen.  We could use more counter space, but I'm guessing everyone says that.  Although, we do have tons of storage, which I am thankful for, even room for most of our kitchen gadgets.  I love it, and Shane and I joke that it must be our favorite room because it is the only one fully decorated (and matches- thanks fiestaware for my navy and green themed kitchen!).  We do seem to spend a lot of time in here though.

I must give my sister credit for this idea.  She has the same bar with hooks from Ikea, and we just copied her.  I really like that I can hang useful things up there, although what is hanging changes depending on what I'm doing.

These are the pre-stuff pictures from our bedroom.  We had to organize however we could, living out of suit cases got old after 2 weeks.

This is our bedroom now.  There is still plenty of work to do, but I'm loving having our stuff in it.

Master bathroom (above).  I must say the shower is tiny.  Once we got our stuff, Shane quickly moved to showering in the guest bath (picture below) where there is more room.

  These two lovely appliances are my current prized possession.  I feel like I do laundry everyday, just because I can (I know it won't last long...).  When we got to Ft. Benning we realized that no on-post housing comes with a washer/dryer or microwave.  I started searching on craigslist immediately because I couldn't bear to just go pay full price at Sears.  Well let me tell you, that was quite the experience for both Shane and I.  We called, texted, and emailed probably 3-5 sellers everyday looking for a "new" used washer/dryer set.  After two weeks, three different visits for potential picks, driving through several different ghetto areas, being called a "craigslist killer", and being scared out of our minds, we finally found a local doctor who was selling this new/used set for a very reasonable price (and didn't live in the ghetto!).  Thank you Lord for an honest, helpful and extremely nice seller because I didn't know how many more trips I could survive to the laundromat on post.

 These are pictures of our attic rooms.  There are real stairs right outside our kitchen door that lead to the attic, so its basically like a third story of our house.  We just have Christmas decorations, ski clothes, keepsakes, sports equipment and a few other things up there we won't use often.

 Shane's West Point shipment finally arrived!

 Boxes, boxes and more boxes.  This was taken when our (un)packers brought our stuff.  We were blessed with three very nice men to unpack our stuff, and everything went smoothly.  A big change from the disaster of packers we had.  Although we are still marveling at the king box springs, and twin bed railings we received that are not ours???  We have very few boxes left to actually unpack, and are enjoying finally having a home!

 I hope you enjoyed the extensive tour of our home.  Come visit anytime!