My first house!

Last Thursday, Carter and I closed on a new house! This is his 2nd house but my first house (I was just renting from him in Broomfield). We spent all afternoon Thursday, all day Friday, and all morning Saturday at the new house, just cleaning, fixing things, painting, etc. I'm so proud to be a homeowner!!!!!

Below are some photos I snapped while we were there--there are lots here but scroll to the bottom to see the video-tours!

Taken from the road

Taken from half-way through the driveway. Ignore the shingles on the roof--we had roofers working on the new roof all weekend, but it's finally done!

Our new front door! Our porch swing will go here, and that makes me happy. (I love porch swings)

Kitchen, as seen from the fireplace-room. We hope to save up  enough to completely remodel the kitchen in 2 years or so. For now it's functional, just outdated.

other end of kitchen (stove in bottom right)

looking from the fridge, at the window above sink.

this is a small half-bath off the mud-room, off the entrance to garage

This is the "mud room" which is a small room between garage and kitchen and 1/2 bath. laundry here and space for boots, coathooks, etc.

 

From kitchen, looking into fireplace room

we don't know what else to call this besides fireplace room. I don't think our dining table will go here, at least not for now. maybe just a couple comfy chairs?

from carpetted living area, kitchen on left, fireplace on right, glass doors to back yard.

carpetted living room--this is where the couch and TV will.

another view of entertainment system/cabinets--I love this!

same room, different view

from the hallway looking back into the rest of the house--I love the exposed beam! Carter wants to add more but I don't quite know how that will look. What do you think of the pillars?

from the carpet, looking at front door and what will be the dining area (at least for now!)

front door. 

hallway to bedrooms

utility room--water heater in here, and door to crawl space on the ground (silver hook). We will put the kitty stuff in here, with a special door so the dog can't get in!

guest bedroom--this is the nicest of the extra bedrooms and we plan on leaving it just for guests. So come visit! Now!

closet in guest bedroom

guest bathroom--this also needs some work! luckily we are pros at bathroom remodel now.

rest of guest bath

guest bath looking from shower at the door. not shown is the linen closet, which I am entirely too excited about!!!! (I've never had a linen closet before! (in my adult life))

office (see more photos below for new wall color!)

office looking out

 

CRAFT ROOM!!!!!!!!! (see more photos of new paint color)

craft room looking out

Carter's work--repairing a crack in the drywall seam in one corner. He ripped off the old drywall tape, sanded and cleaned it up, put down new drywall tape, spackled over it a few times (letting it dry and sanding in between layers), then primer, then he applied knock-down. It's currently drying and we'll prime it later this week to be painted.

new wall color in the office!! What do you think?

new wall color in craft room, what do you think? As you see, we picked fairly bold colors for these two rooms, which I like (I'm a bold person!). The other rooms in the house are very neutral, and if we paint them they'll stay rather neutral since they are main living areas and need to look nice/professional/etc. But these two rooms are our "play" rooms so I felt OK being more crazy. I'm thinking about commissioning Justin to paint a crazy sun on one wall in my craft room! What do you think, Justin?