Our Home ~ Autumn 2013

As we live in the middle of unfinished rooms and in between the never ending unpacking and sorting, I decided we needed some "pretty". So, we have dug through containers to find autumn décor while embracing pink walls and blue trim. Today I'm sharing our sunroom which is the room that is off our family room. Actually the sunroom, family room, and kitchen are all open to one another. (If you didn't get to read or see the before pics of the rooms when we purchased our new home you can read/see them here, Our New Home ~ The Downstairs Before and Our New Home ~ The Upstairs Before). We eat all our meals in the sunroom. The only things we have done in this room, so far, are: repair a hole in the ceiling, wash the windows, and clean the floor. I like to use neutral colors for the base of our home. I like the way the neutrals look for everyday use and it's easy to change out our accessories, such as pillows, candles, throws, etc. for the seasons and holidays. I'm thinking the orange doesn't look so bad next to the blue trim and, thankfully, the pink walls are faint, so not so noticeable. I, absolutely, love the windows in this room.

 

 

 

 

And here's a little tip. Instead of purchasing items to fill up our baskets,

I fill and lift the candles with rolls of toilet paper.

 

 

 

Yes, we still have a lot of work to do on our home. The list goes on forever. But, we have accomplished a lot! Recently, we have gutted our kitchen and hooked up our stove (woohoo!), hooked up our washer and dryer (yay!), emptied many boxes to give us more space to walk room to room and although not finished, we are able to use our dining room. Hopefully, we will be able to share our autumn porch soon!

 

 

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Our New Home ~ The Downstairs Before

Yay! Thankfully, we now have air! Of course, the weather is suppose to cool down a little this week and we may not need it, but we are so happy to have the furnace and air, almost, complete. Last week, we shared pictures of the outside of our home that were taken on the day we purchased our house (Our New Home ~ The Outside Before). Today, we will share the downstairs "before" pictures. It will be a while before we will have "after" pictures. These pictures I, also, took last year, on the day we bought our house. When we bought our house we thought the layout was great for our family and it had plenty of space. We could see the potential and knew what the house could become. After being here for two months, we are, even, more excited to make it into the home we envisioned, last summer. Recently, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to see older pictures our house. It was such a lovely house. It will take a lot of work, but we hope to make it lovely again!



Enter the front door and there is a foyer. To the left is the stairway,

to the right is the parlor, and straight through is the office/playroom.

 



 

Parlor

 

 

 

Dining room

 

 

 

Office/Playroom

 

 

 

Bathroom

 

 

Sunroom/Eating area (Part of the family room.)

 

 

Family room

(To the left are the kitchen and bar area.)

(The kitchen, sunroom, and family room are all connected)

 

 

 

Family room

(You can see the side porch through the door and window.)

(Also, behind the door that Chris is working on there is a back stairway to the upstairs.)

 

 

 

Kitchen

(Hard to see, but the deck is off the back door.)

 

 

Kitchen

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed our tour!

 

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