Mi Casa

Welcome to our new home! Our house sits on 1.33333333 acres on a dirt lane. We are now the proud owners of 59 can lights (Braxton counted). Let's take a tour! The view from the front door:

There are two doors which you cannot see in this picture. To the left is the master bedroom. To the right is the piano room. The door you can see on the left is the hall closet. The door on the right is the powder room. Straight ahead is the great room. (I've spent a lot of time perusing house plans that use fancy names. )


The powder room:




The piano room looking in:



The piano room from the stairs, looking back towards the entry way:



The master bedroom:



Another view, looking towards the master bath/closet:


At the top of the stairs is an open space, otherwise known as a loft.To the left is the hallway and three bedrooms and a bathroom. To the right is the bonus room which contains a ping-pong table, an air hockey table, a foosball table, a wet bar, and surround sound. What it does not contain, and won't for an unspecified amount of time, is something to sit on. I forgot to take a picture of the bonus room. Notice that dark spot on the left of the photograph above?

That is this interesting little cubby hole. Can you say bean bag and a good book? Here is another view of the loft, looking towards the bonus room:

The upstairs bath.

The shower is to the left and further back, to the left of the toilet, is a closet. That means that when the kids run out of TP while sitting on the john, it's just a reach away. Quite convenient.

Braxton and Tanner's bedroom. This is Braxton's side:

And this is Tanner's side:

Where the dormer windows are, they each have a vaulted ceiling. Built into the ceiling are rope lights and the switches will be by their beds. They are totally excited about "NIGHT LIGHTS" but I'm thinking I'll unplug those babies and save me some $$$ on the power bill.

Kilee's room has a this fun little cubby hole. It even has lights and electrical outlets. I think I need another bean bag.

Back downstairs, you have one of my favorite parts of the house:

Look at those book cases! Oh- I can't wait to fill them! Look at those cold air returns! I forgot to put the covers back on before I took the picture!

This is Randy's favorite part of the house:

See that big empty spot above the fireplace? The one that screams "BIG FLAT SCREEN TV!" It's a man's spot.

Here's my other favorite part:

Cue oohs and ahhs.

But wait! There's more!

Cue more oohs and ahhs. My very own pantry! I'm so excited I don't even know what to do with myself. Randy just has to put a big red bow on the door (which is all we can afford at this point) and Christmas is done.

From the kitchen, here is the view:

My beat-up kitchen table will look kinda sad in this lovely spot:

This is the back hallway.

Or something. What do you call this little spot? One door goes to the garage, one door to the family room, one door to the backyard, and it's open to the kitchen. Braxton calls it the intersection. Randy wants to call it the 4-way. I just want to call someone to take the ladder out to the garage.

No house tour is complete without a view of the laundry room.

Since there is nothing in it, this is a great time to show it to the world. It's clean for the very last time.

Now, back out the front door you go.

There are my kids' backpacks. We're home.