Home sweet home!!

Well we have been living in our house for three weeks now and it is beginning to feel like home! We closed on October 30th and have had a lot of work done to the house. Here is what the past month and a half has looked like for us!

The week of closing we had a huge snow storm and thank goodness for four wheel drive, we had a huge pile of snow plowed just in front of our driveway and could only get in with the Xterra! These pictures are from just after closing with our realtor...

Week one of renovations: our contractor tore up our kitchen,carpet, interior doors and started painting.

Matt also installed our new water heater, here he is reading the instruction manual...
By week two we had our appliances, but not a kitchen to install them yet so they sat in our dining room while they just worked around it all...Week three we had carpet, new interior doors, and most of our kitchen installed. Ready or not we had to move in by the end of this week.

Also during those three weeks, Matt had to get busy! He built us a new deck and did a lot of plumbing work throughout the house. I painted the garage doors, the front door and did lots of cleaning and caulking our bathroom. Our deck is amazing, he did such a great job!
Before... dilapidated and unsafe not to mention small as heck!
After: spacious and relaxing!! It comes just off our bedroom too. We haven't gotten to enjoy it much with our snow storms and cold weather but we look forward to it this spring and summer!

So here are some before and afters!! Oh and by the way I love my red door, it makes me happy... this spring we are going to put up black shutters as well...

This is the view from the end of our driveway. Kitchen... before... dull and missing most everything...After!! We love it, it is wonderful...Moving day everyone helping us get settled!
Living room before....

And After... it is a very comfortable space that we enjoy. Out of our bay window you have such a good view of the street and everything thats going on outside. Our Living, dining, kitchen area is very open with a great floorplan. Our master bedroom before...
And after... It's a great room for us, very quiet and good for sleeping during the day for me. It also is big enough for our furniture to fit comfortably which is great! Our bedroom opens up to a half bath that is also attached to our main upstairs bath.


This is our view from our guest room. I am pretty sure you can only see the mountains in the winter but still we like to say we have some mountain view!! The guest bedroom is actually one of my favorite rooms in the house. It has great windows with good light. One window faces northwest to see the mountains and the other faces east to see the city and the plains. Above is our basement room which is mostly storage. It still needs work, we basically just carpeted it for now and will address it later. There is another bathroom down here and it opens out to the garage which Matt is currently working on. He is installing garage door openers and organizing a work station for himself. We took the old cabinets from the kitchen to make a little workshop.

Things are coming together slowly. Our third bedroom is still a disaster as we have yet to get our desk to make it into our office area. With all the snow we haven't wanted to go out and transport it yet, hopefully we will get that set up this week though. We definitely have lots of projects to last us as long as we want!!!

Thanks for looking at our blog we love our new home and can't wait to finish getting everything set up.