Home Sweet Home

I have been putting off posting pictures because I wanted to wait until the house was perfect...I soon realized it would never be perfect or finished. So I decided to just put up pictures of what we have and when we update stuff we can add new pictures. There are still some specific things we need, like cabinet storage in our bathrooms above the toilet and other things, but for the most part, we are settled into our first home. 

We started off with a few projects and painting

For a while all we had in our freezer were Otter Pop...I mean a LONG while

We had to install some recessed outlets so we could hang the TV and all the wires went through the wall to behind our entertainment center shelf. I also had to figure out a way to stop our shower caddy from falling off, so I bent out a rectangular bracket and screwed it on. And many already know of the difficulties we had getting our dryer to fit in the closet and the recessed bibs and rearranging the pipes and and cutting drywall and tile everything that went along with that.

Our next project was building our entertainment center to surround our fireplace, putting up the trim and painting the mantle.

No visible wires, HOORAY!

We painted the living room, kitchen, guest bathroom, guest bedroom (that's right, we have space for guests so come visit us!) office and our bedroom. I bought a rug for under our table, put up some floating shelves and other decorations. I also got rid of the horrible closet doors in our bedroom and installed a curtain instead. We are still yet to hang our DVD racks that we made a couple years ago, but I think we are very happy with how everything is coming along. 

Our kitchen, dinning area and living room

Our fireplace. (I've turned into Mom, I have a vase with just sticks in it!)

This frame was made for us by Leanne Heuer (sort of my second Mom, Thanks Leanne!) for our wedding and now holds the key to our first home!

Our "Beachy-ish" bedroom with a "girl station" (term coined by Lee) for me complete with
a purse rack I made to keep all my purses and bags contained

The guest bathroom. The pictures don't really do justice to the color in there;
it's an olive color, like the top of a palm tree... it's really very pretty

Since I got palm trees everywhere, Eldon got a spot for a little bit of baseball. 

This is our office. I am going to add a collage of his old baseball cards and try to find an old jersey to add. The eagle picture was given to him special when he became an Eagle Scout.

And for those who were worried, don't be, Duke has a good sized yard to run around and play in, he's just fine. Next summer our project will be to pour a concrete patio and create a nice spot for a BBQ, another reason to come visit us :)