Answers to Questions: Part 2 {home tour}

Are you going to post pics of your house someday? I’d love to see it!

Sure, I’ll give you a tour . . . Our house was built in 1924 and is a bungalow-style. Probably about 1,100 square feet. It sits in an old historic neighborhood in the center of the city where some of the houses have been redone and are super cute and some look like they need to be condemned. I would like to think that our house belongs in the super cute category! While I would love for my home to look like it came out of a Pottery Barn catalog, it probably lacks any inspiration for your own home. It looked a lot better {and cleaner} before we had kids. We have stopped buying any new furniture and decor until we move into our next home.

Since we’ve decided to stay for awhile we are doing a few updates. We put these projects off while hoping to sell but now they’re happening and I’m trying to fall in love with our house all over again. I try to remember how excited we were on closing day! Totally naive to home ownership and ready to get our hands dirty! Surely I can concentrate on the good things about our house instead of always wishing for something better. Be happy in THIS moment, right?

So we’re replacing all the original drafty windows with double-hung, energy efficient windows. So far, they look amazing! We’ve lived in our home for 3.5 years and I have never been able to open our windows. Now we can and it is like magic! I actually can’t wait until fall so we can open all the windows and let the fresh air blow through!

We are also going to put up a six foot privacy fence. We have a nice-sized backyard but the two houses next door are pieces of crap. They are both abandoned so no one takes care of the lawn. We actually end up mowing the lawn because if we waited for the city to handle it our backyard would be covered in snakes. I hate it. I have always hated the view next door. And I’ve always wanted to put up a fence so we can enclose it and make it into a nice little oasis for entertaining and for our boys to run and play. Oh, and for Roxie the pug to play too. Now we’re finally going to get this done. We’re going to buy the wood ourselves and call in family to help. I will post photos when this project is done!

This is another view of the nursery. Oh, how I will miss the jungle animals. I loved this bedding set! Landon helped me take the monkey stickers off the wall and he seemed sad. Me too, buddy. But it’s time to move on. We used to have an upholstered rocker in the room but as soon as Landon started crawling he needed more room to play. So we put the rocker in the back room and replaced it with this bookshelf. We also put the closet door back up. As much as I loved the idea of a cute curtain he just kept crawling in there and pulling everything out. So the curtain was only a good idea in theory. You live and you learn, right? Naaman bought a small ceiling fan for the boys’ room too so that will go in shortly. I can’t wait to reveal the shared room . . . it’s coming soon

There was yucky carpet in this room too. But since it is an addition there were no hardwoods underneath. Just cement. So we searched for laminate flooring that was as close to the real hardwood color as possible. It looks great and most people who come through think it’s the same thing! But it only cost about $400

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