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Welcome to our New Home!

May 19, 2018
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Join me today on a walkthrough of our new home! I’m sharing all of our before photos (complete with unpacked boxes and paint samples splotched all over the walls), and I hope you’ll join me on our journey to turn this house into our next home!

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A little while back I revealed on my Instagram that we had moved! The beginning of this next chapter of our life has been exciting, overwhelming, and incredibly busy, but we are settling in to the new abode and making long-term plans for life on the other side of town.

This move was sparked by the need for more square footage, and the desire to live in a more secluded area with a bigger plot of land. We found our little slice of heaven in between two inland lakes, and although we are not technically on the water, we are lucky enough to have a bit of a lake view from our windows!

The house itself is quite a change from our old home. The style is much more contemporary, and I was surprised how quickly I fell in love with it as I am much more of a transitional farmhouse kinda gal! But we can see the potential in this home, and we can’t wait to make it our own! Come along with us on our “before” tour!

First up, the entry way! I love the entry of this home, with the open tread staircase and entrances to the office, dining room, and kitchen simultaneously. It feels nice and open, and includes a nice large coat closet, which is definitely appreciated after our last house!

 

To the left when you enter is the original dining room, which will one day be walled off with a set of beautiful French doors to become our office, complete with built-in bookshelves.

Right off the foyer is a small powder room too, perfectly situated for the first floor. I have some awesome plans to put painted shiplap in here one day!

To the right of the entryway is what was originally the living room of the house, but we are transforming it into our dining room. The original dining room did not have vaulted ceilings and was just not a very welcoming place for a dining room to be, in our opinion, and we much preferred the vaulted ceilings in this room for a dining room. I can envision a super pretty chandelier, a handmade rustic wooden table made by the hubby, and countless dinner parties over the years!

The new dining room has a nice flow too, leading right into the family room. But first, lets talk about my favorite part of the house: the kitchen!

We don’t have much to change here besides the floors. I would eventually like to reface the cabinets to a shaker style, but that will probably be a few years away for now. Since these photos were taken, I have switched out the cabinet knobs and pulls and it totally transformed the space already!

Off the kitchen is a mudroom that includes laundry, and we would love to renovate this space into storage, space for the puppies, and a general catch-all for items deposited when we come home from work. (You know what you are, items.) In addition to having a beautiful space that I’m happy to fold laundry in! Can we pull all that off in this tiny space? Stay tuned!

(Also has a tiny little powder room here too. What to do with that sink? Hmm…)

Before we move upstairs, let’s also check out that family room. I love how spacious it is and how much light comes in with those double sliding doors. On an unrelated note, anybody looking to purchase a whole wall full of California river rock? Because it’ll be up for grabs sometime… hopefully soon!

Eventually that half wall in between the kitchen and the family room will be ripped out, so the whole space is nice and open.

Moving upstairs, we have the master suite and three other bedrooms with their own full bathroom.

The light from the windows in this house is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the things that sold us on this house, that regardless of what time of day it is or what the weather is like, the house is so full of light! Not to mention the fact that the girl’s absolutely love all their nature sightings through these beautiful windows!

Now onto the second most important part of the house after the kitchen, of course: the master suite! This is another aspect that sold us on this house. We love the vaulted ceilings, the extensive closet space, and the wall to wall sliding doors throughout the master bath and bedroom. I have such great ideas to turn this into modern-farmhouse-meets-hotel-chic!

And did I mention the double bathroom doors? Like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, if there is ever a burglar, I can just “zoom!” through the other door and be gone!

The light in the master suite is just… to. die. for. I love waking up in the mornings! (Okay, not that much, but still, it’s lovely!)

Last but not least, I’ll share some photos of the backyard. The house does have a lovely large basement with plenty of storage, the perfect place for the hubby’s fish tank, and a nice little room I’m going to turn into my studio, but it’s so jam packed with boxes that I was too embarrassed to photograph it for y’all. #movingprobs

This is a party deck if I’ve ever seen one. I can’t wait to have family and friends over and sit out here chatting, drinking, eating, and making the best kind of memories.

And there you have it! Our beautiful new abode, full of light and potential and future memories. I am so excited to share these before photos with you, and I hope you’ll stick around for the *likely long* journey to make it our home!

I would love to hear from you what your thoughts are! Which room would you want to renovate first? What are your plans for this modern farmhouse reno? Share with me by commenting below, or follow along on Instagram for all the latest updates!

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  1. Megan says

    May 25, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    So exciting! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!

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