House shots

These photos are just for a few family members who have been asking for some updated photos of the house. :-)

Here's the breakfast room... We decided instead of recovering the chairs that were left in the house we'd buy new ones. I'm glad we did. I like the new leather barstools better.

Our family room with the new pictures up and our new furniture... Also I'm not sure if I put the photos with the rug up.

I really wanted two sofas that looked essentially the same but one that reclined (straight back from the TV) and one that didn't so it was comfy to lie down on... I found them! Hooray!

Obviously we need a new dining set, but until we pay off Whit's loans, we are going to keep on keeping on with this one. :-) And with our $80 Wal Mart rug, too. Haha.

Entry way...

Kids game room--my mom did the curtains, the window seat cushions and all the pillows. Go mom!! Obviously we still have building a new "Built in" inset in the media center on our list. The people who lived here before had an enormous big screen tv in there that they left but it was old so we gave it away. Now we need a new built in with spaces for DVDs, etc.

Here's Eli's room. He wanted batman for the theme and I said no over and over until I saw the Pottery Barn batman stuff. It's not so bad, so he got it.

His dad did the wall art, but Grandma Carla (lerdleluh) gave him the batman light, etc.)

I think I already put up photos of the bathroom, but then I got the wall quilt from Eli's nursery up in there too. I like it with the monkey theme the kids picked out.

This is the hallway between the kids room (from the game room). I love that there's an extra door to close off that hallway from the rest of the house so there's another noise barrier for when they are sleeping. You can see Dora's letters outside her room.

Here's Dora's room. We're still planning to paint a tree on the "ceiling" that slopes down and put 3D flowers on it. (Another rip off from pottery barn!) Haha. I have no decorating style. We did replace her fan with one with flowers, hearts and butterflies. Oh and my mom made the curtains. Go mom, again!

This is the kids' reading room (across from the game room).

I finally got my hobby room put together. Now I just need a tiny TV to watch on when I am scrapbooking in there.

Here's Emmy's room. YES, it is our second closet. We didn't really need that much closet space and we wanted her close to our bedroom. Haha!

And, yes, we just reused Dora's old nursery stuff. I just can't bring myself to care so much about a room I only mean for her to spend a few more months in...

This is the little sitting room outside her room. It connects our covered back porch and the master bath.
I also redid the redo of the master bath cabinets (because I messed them up the first time.) They are SO MUCH BETTER now!! Thank heavens...

Also you can see there was a TV in that big tall cabinet and the MASTER BATH was wired (with speakers still there) for surround sound. SO WEIRD. The people who had the house before us had 8 rooms wired for surround. They left all that stuff plus they left two big TVs... Weird. Anyway, what in the world can I do with that cabinet? I have no interest in having a TV there.