on a walk and furniture

Yesterday I found princess Claire walking her pillow pet

when I took her picture it reminded me that I never posted pictures of our finally furnished great room. So...here is the long awaited couch. Sorry you had to sit in kitchen chairs while you were here, Brad and Susan. We love having a sectional; the whole family can lounge together. The coffee table is made from the planks of a WWII Liberty ship-I love how it turned out.
Our kitchen table is huge, just how I wanted it. It is made from 100 year old barn wood. We also got all our curtains up in both rooms, which turned out great. We had been in our house about 3 months before we had furniture in our great room, but now I can say it was worth the wait.

a room with a view

wanted to share the best part of our house with you:

notice the moon in this one

the lake becomes a mirror
a foggy morning
sunset

after

beautiful

sunset

home pictures

The "hide out". Do you recognize the packaging peanuts?

Basement: pool table, basketball throw, and pinball machine

Our old furniture is now in the basement

Kitchenette: with newly finished back splash

The pool: it is awesome! the favorite thing of the house...we swim at least 2 times a day, sometimes for 2 hours sometimes for 20 minutes.

front staircase

my office: I LOVE having my own space and my own computer!

kitchen

master bath

master bath

there, happy now?

moved in

We moved in. Several weeks ago. Some of our house still looks like this...some of our house is still not done...some of our house still doesn't have furniture (that back order thing again)...but the view always looks like this and so it makes it all worth it.

pool and lights

the boys checking out the pool...the thing next to them is the "tanning shelf/swim platform" and the circular thing is the hot tub. We spent quite some time figuring out where to put the hot tub so that you would hopefully be able to see the outside TV. It's all about priorities.

above view of the pool

Allen explaining to the kids exactly how every inch of his body will be massaged with water. Lights are in, tile is almost done.

Allen's office light

kitchen light that will be over the island...I found it online and was anxious/nervous that I might not like it in person...but I love it!

columns

front door and newly placed columns

half wall and columns in the master, making the sitting room...on the other side of the half walls are book shelves

boy's shower

back of house

kitchen granite finally picked out

floors, ceilings and more

kitchenette

Allen's study-built-in desk unstained

coffered ceiling in family room

inset wood ceiling over table



front entry tile work

I am having so much fun seeing things happen to the house that I pick out!

sheet rock and stone

Here are some photos I have taken in the last little while

(I am trying to show different rooms)

view from back of kitchen looking into dinning area

showing Allen's parents our master bedroom

bonus room and door to finished storage room

the stone is going up



I went by today to pick up mail and had to take a picture of the
trees that are next to our house-that you can see out dinning area windows
The last few weeks have been crazy with the house. Final ok's on cabinets and tile took
a lot of my time and sleep. Last week paint became the main focus...and still is today.
I found out we get a few rooms painted other colors in our budget-good news, but I wasn't
prepared to make those kinds of decisions right now. And we continue to debate the pool.
I am still enjoying the experience and even have had time to finish my Psych. 321 class.

cool stuff

Here is something that my kids deem cool about our rental:

This is the tile back splash in the kitchen-now I don't have to wonder exactly what a dash is or how long I should cook my fish (the one behind the fancy attached can opener is a "roasting timetable")
We are all moved into our rental and are happy to be here. When you only unpack 30% of your stuff it's pretty quick. And when function wins over form it is even easier. Carter is the only one not too happy with our new digs. Today at morning prayer he was going through everyone and their day and he said, "please bless mom that she can work on our house today and make it feel more like our other homes" Poor guy. It made me sad to tell him that this was pretty much it for the next 6 months. Maybe it is this basement that is making him feel out of sorts. (we were able to fit everything in the house and didn't have to rent a storage unit-can you tell?)

windows, doors, and more

outside fireplace

view when you walk into the house through the front door

C & J's hideout behind their bedrooms (access from closets)

great room

stairs (one is looking from 2nd floor to basement)

master bath

side door (with plywood behind it)

windows are all in