The living room

There is a large room when you first walk in, that probably used to be a dining room/living room set up. 

But at some point, they put carpet in the whole room and I think made it into one "great room" (I refuse to have a carpeted dining room).  I decided to kind of split it back into two areas, while still keeping the open concept layout going.

I made the front of the room a sitting area in front of the fireplace.  It's nice to sit and read or knit, or just have a conversation with someone.

Then, I divided the room with my sofa and sofa table to create a separate tv area. I still need to mount the tv (the windows give a bad glare in the afternoon and I'm hoping a tilt mount will help with that), but it's mostly done.

At this point, my "great room" is competing for favorite room of the house (tied with my bedroom).  I absolutely love this room and love walking in my front door to it.

Bedroom curtains

I feel like I've actually made a lot of progress with my house, I just don't want to take p pictures until everything looks "perfect".  This is stupid, it will never be perfect. 

My living room is basically done, I just have some boxes to run down to the basement but I keep holding off on taking a picture until I do that.  The kitchen is unpacked, but I want to eventually paint and such in there, so again, no pictures.  Same with the bathroom.

I'm apparently really bad at taking "in progress" pictures.

However, I broke down and took a picture of a section of my bedroom.  Yay!  I have curtains!  (Jess and Lisa will be mocking my "floods" I have going on in all my rooms, but I love them anyway)

My crafting room

I'm used to growing up in a house with a sewing room for my mom, so it makes perfect sense to me to have a "craft room" in my house.  So I can knit or sew or any other fun hobby I want to pick up.

Additionally, when I was in high school, I visited one of J's college friend's childhood house for a party and fell in love with the color of her bedroom.  Since then, I have always wanted a green room, but never really had the opportunity for one.

Until now. 

It's just a small peek of the painted room, and I'll show more as I decorate it, but it certainly is bright...and I kind of am in love with it.

Bedroom

I feel like I've been unable to unpack my bedroom because I didn't have any dressers (I threw my old one out bc it was broken).  But, I didn't want to get dressers until I painted the bedroom. 

I finally got the room painted a lovely dark blue (ugh, two coats and I could use a third in some areas, but screw it), maybe in a few months :)

And since I didn't have enough other stuff to do with my time (sarcasm), I bought two unfinished dressers from IKEA and proceeded to paint and stain them.  And then build them.  This took almost a week and I never want to touch another piece of furniture ever again.  Everything about the process was horrible.

But, finally, painted walls and dressers and it's feeling like my bedroom.

Sitting Area

My dad was awfully concerned at the last post and the lack of space for a bed in front of the fireplace.

So, I figured I'd show a small peek of the area free of the boxes.  Still not done, but a step closer.

Living room

I'll probably post periodic updates on the house. 

I closed on December 12th, and moved in on the 19th.  I had these grand intentions of packing December 6th-12th (the week I returned from China), however, I was smoking crack.  I did absolutely nothing that week.  I was exhausted, but couldn't sleep, and packing was completely beyond my ability. 

Unfortunately, that meant I was packing the week after closing instead of painting as I had intended.

So I moved in with the house still in the brown color palette.

I had boxes everywhere, but I managed to paint anyway, and only made a slight disaster of it. 

Before and after pictures of the room as I moved in, and after I painted.

I'll show the put together room next time. :)

Hello?

I haven't written a single thing in about a year now, and I'm not sure anyone even still reads this, but just in case anyone still does...

I'm buying a house!!

I have excellent timing, I'm leaving for China in a month, and decided I needed the extra levels of stress in my life.  But I fell in love with this house the second I saw it and it felt like home the minute I stepped inside.  I knew I wanted it to be mine.

I'm hoping the whole mortgage process and everything else isn't too awful.

But isn't it pretty?