Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Before and After in Our New House

I thought I'd post some pictures of our new home. I have these pine trees in the backyard and had to take a picture of them with the snow. They had all this snow when we first arrived...it has since all melted and I can now see the grass. But that will only be for another day or so since we have snow predicted in the weather forecast.
This is the front of the house. SM and I love renting a house and not being in an apartment. We feel so blessed to be here in Ohio. SM is enjoying his job and his co-workers, the ward has been so welcoming and we have this great house to stay in. Life is good.
This is actually my favorite room...the sun room. When we unloaded the semi, this room was the room for all the book boxes. The room has three walls of windows and I can't wait for the spring time sunshine.
This is the sun room today. I get to exercise in this room, read books in that cool chair and have my plants in there also. As I said before, I love this room.
Before...
After!
This is the kitchen full of boxes. This room was a major job and I'm glad I tackled it first.
And here the kitchen stuff is all put away. LOVELY!
Here's the living room before...
and AFTER! Doesn't that look comfy?!
The red bathroom before....
The red bathroom after...didn't change very much but that's okay.
The dining room before...
And AFTER...this is such a wonderful house. Again, we have been blessed.
Our bedroom before...note, we were sleeping on the air-mattress with our sleeping bags.
And this is our new bed. For the first five years of our marriage we slept on a full size bed. SM's feet always hung over the edge and we were very careful when we moved in bed so as to not knock out our spouse. This bed feels like we are on our own island and I have to make an effort to find SM in the bed.

5 comments:

Emily Hamilton said...

You new place looks awesome! Nice!

Kareena Watkins said...

Head! This place is AMAZING! What a NICE home! You guys make it look great. We miss you, but I am super glad you have a nice place to be if you're not here! I LOVE the sun room and those crazy big pine trees! LOVE IT! I just need to come visit you...if, as a little newlywed couple, we can afford it. I miss you guys and love you tons!

The Mrs said...

Looks like a very nice place. I'm glad you are able to get out of apartment life too. Isn't it wonderful?! Love the trees and the sunroom. Actually, it looks like the whole house has some pretty great windows. congrats!

The Gardener said...

How'd I miss the move to Ohio? Love the house. What I wouldn't give to have a closet that wasn't the size of a phone booth and big windows. Enjoy!

Elise said...

Congratulations! What a wonderful place you have! If I'm ever in Ohio I will SO come visit you! I have an uncle in Ohio...so maybe! I'm so happy for you! Your house is so big! I love it!