Our new house!

Bum ba BUM!

We found a new house! And here's the funny part - we're two blocks down from our old house! When this house came on the market about three weeks ago, I called our real estate agent and we raced over to see it that afternoon. We had an offer in later that day (or was it the next morning? Man, things blur.) 

It's a teeny bungalow, in need of some pretty heavy cosmetic work (and even a little more than that), but it's cute, has the perfect location & is an exciting new project. Our grand plan is to add a bathroom & closet to what we are calling the master (which is sort of hilarious, because right now it's just three small bedrooms), and maybe even squeeze in a mudroom off of the kitchen. Those are GRAND plans. Our plans RIGHT NOW are to paint, fix and refinish floors, redesign the kitchen & do a small re-do of the existing bathroom.

I've got pictures, an excessive amount really, for such a small house, but I'll try and weed through to give you the gist. 

This is the living room, looking in from the dining room, front door is at far right of picture.

Dining room, pretend you just flipped around 180.

Kitchen, pretend you just turned right from dining room.

If you take another right (beside the fridge), through the kitchen - it's a walk-through bedroom now, but we will re-close into a one entry room - this is what we're calling the master bedroom. I've already pulled the wallpaper (and if you follow me on instagram, you'll see some of the help I got :), and eventually I'd like to break out the wall into the backyard and add a bathroom and small walk-in closet. 

Now imagine you've walked through the master bedroom and are looking into the hallway. I wish I'd snapped a picture of what was under that rug - and old furnace hole had been patched with plywood. I've since had it replaced with real hardwood. Next step - getting the floors refinished so it all looks integrated!

Turn left into the bathroom. This will be small redo. I'm going to break up the floor, add back something like what I did at the Marling house, paint the tiles, replace the light fixtures, toilet, (maybe sink?), add a new mirror and paint. That's probably the gist of it. (And yes, I do think the original floor is charming, but it's cracked, a lot).

What will become Truett's room. He's asked to have it painted Goldenrod. (That's actually a compromise, as what he first asked for was Goldfinch).

This will be June's room. It gets a lot of pretty natural light and she's asked to have it painted Calypso. Now if I could just figure out how to lighten up Truett's room. 

For right now we're still at the apartment. We have floor repair, paint and floor refinishing left to do then I'm hoping to schedule the movers to move our stuff in :)

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loving your comments under the images explaining directions :)