Our house.....

Although we've been living here for over a year now I realize that some of you still haven't been here to see it and have asked me some questions. One of you was even trying to figure our house out from the pictures of Jason and I baking (too cute). So it got me thinking that I should post some pics on here. Our house is definitely an original design so it may be hard to follow but I'm going to do my best. Also it is a work in progress. Some things are working right now because we don't have the time/money to change it. Now onto the pictures.

1. This is the shot of the outside that was taken by the house inspector a while ago so that's why it looks all green and such.

2. One major change that Jason's done to the outside for a BBQ and a patio set is build a 12x12 deck extension because the deck wrapping around the house isn't wide enough. So from the picture above the door on the side by the satellite dish now has this when you go out the door (it will be my fun job in the summer to stain it since you have to let it weather for a year... little tip there from the girl who used to work in the paint department).

3. Now the door that we use to get into the house is the one that you see next to the garage. When you walk in this is what you see (the room in progress but border is working with my old furniture so it has been left for now)

(to the right of this is the garage, no need to show you pics of that mess. In the background where you see the closet doors the one to the left is a closet and the one on the right hides our washer and dryer)

4-6. Now when you go up the stairs if you turn to your left you see a small hallway with 2 bedrooms (neither of which have been changed because someday they will be children's rooms and who knows what we'll decide to do with them then) and a full bath

(please tell me you all have a room like this where everything that you don't know what to do with ends up?)

7-9. I hope this isn't getting too confusing....so if you go back to coming up the strairs from the basement and look straight and to your right you'll see our favorite part of the house.

(there's the side door that goes out onto the deck extension that I should you earlier)

10-13. Now we're going to go up those stairs that you see in the last picture. So here's some shots from the landing up there.

(took the last picture for a contractor who's going to attempt to change our ceiling fan into something more my taste...hooray!) oh and here's what I see when I walk out our bedroom door

(this picture was on Sunday before the last storm hit)

14-16. So those previous pictures were if you went to the top of the stairs and turned right. If you turned left you would enter into our bedroom and then another left to our bathroom.

(my side of the room)(Jason's side of the room.....it used to annoy the heck out of me that he didn't put his clothes away. Now after 4 years I could care less, ahhhhhh how freeing.)This is our small bathroom but we really don't need anything bigger, plus just having to clean a stand up shower is so much better than a full bath (we never use the downstairs one).

So that's it. That's our house. Hope that made sense to you. I'll leave you one last shot of our view (this one is from the front door in the livingroom/kitchen/diningroom area) that was taken this morning. Hopefully you'll all be able to come out and visit some time. Although the drive gets annoying at times we love it here. We feel so blessed to have this wonderful house and view. If I'm honest sometimes I feel guilty for all the space that we do have. However Kitty and Alpine seem to enjoy leaving hairy messes in every room for me to clean so it's kind of like I have 2 kids most days, other days it feels like 3 :)