At long last, I am excited to be able to share with you photos of our soon-to-be new home.
In addition to the cozy, established neighborhood, one aspect Chris and I love so much about our new house is that it will give us ample opportunity to customize, renovate, and update. As you'll see from the photos, while the house is very move-in-ready, there are all kinds of fun projects just waiting for us, including work on landscaping and future upgrades to all of the bathrooms. Projects we were hoping to have and just can't wait to get our hands on. :)
P.S. My parents were visiting the weekend I took these photos, thus the reason they appear as lovely house models throughout this post. :)
Driveway leading up to the side garage. We absolutely love how spacious the drive is and how flat -- perfect for packing the house with guests, and for our little cousins, nephew, and future kiddos to ride their bikes. :)
View of the two-car garage and backyard entrance. So blessed that the yard is fenced in -- the perfect place for our little pup to run and play.
View from the driveway looking out into the cul-de-sac.
Sidewalk leading up to the front door.
View from front door into the foyer.
Straight back is the formal living room, and to the left will be my future office. Yay! :)
View inside downstairs office -- love the French doors and built-in bookcase!
View out office windows with the gorgeous plantation shutters! :)
Love the pretty, decorative grate covers throughout the house.
View from office, across the foyer, and into the formal dining room.
View into formal dining room.
Formal dining room
I'm in love with the swinging door that connects the kitchen to the dining room. It really is the little things that cause my heart to bounce with joy. :)
View from foyer hallway into formal living area on the left. Powder room and guest coat closet are on the right.
Powder room
Guest coat closet
View from hallway into formal living room, looking out onto screened-in, back sun room.
Living room with fully-functioning, wood-burning fireplace! <3
French doors on left lead into downstairs office.
View from formal dining room looking back into kitchen.
View from living room looking back into kitchen, and to the right into the front hallway.
There is a wet bar in the living room. How much fun that will be for future entertaining! :)
Dining room looking through swinging door into kitchen.
Breakfast area of kitchen overlooking outdoor deck -- I love all of the pretty windows in this house.
View from the breakfast area of kitchen looking right into the living room area and left into kitchen island area -- love the built-in shelves.
I LOVE that the garage has windows! No doom 'n gloom, musty garage for me. :) (Our real estate agent laughed so hard when I walked into the garage for the first time because the first thing out of my mouth was "this is so pretty!")
The garage door leading into the kitchen has a window in it -- another element I love. This is the view from the kitchen stoop looking down into the garage.
You can't really see it from this photo, but there is a storage closet on the bottom right of the garage.
View from the kitchen looking up into the future media room. I love that it has its own "secret" staircase. :) The door to the left leads out into the garage.
The future media room.
Stairway leading down to the kitchen from the media room.
View from the kitchen into laundry room. This room makes me SO happy.
Handsome hubby getting measurements for our new washer and dryer.
I love all of the useful storage space in here -- although it shall be transformed from how you see it here. ;-)
The beautiful kitchen
Stairs leading upstairs from the foyer.
View from upstairs hallway into the master bedroom.
View into the master bath.
I'm in love with the big windows.
Future walk-in closet :)
View from the master bedroom into the hallway.
Upstairs room #1: Chris's future office/library/music room/study. :) Not to worry, the little chandelier shall come down for Chris's sake. ;-)
"Jack and Jill" guest bathroom (one full shower/toilet area connected to two different sink areas). All of this will be renovated in the future. :)
Second sink area leading into guest bedroom #2
Guest bath - a future renovation project. :)
Guest bedroom #2: The smaller of our two guest bedrooms. This bedroom looks out over the backyard.
Guest bedroom #1: This bedroom is larger and overlooks the front yard.
Backyard: "Garden-side" entrance. I absolutely love how much potential there is for this yard! Chris and I already have a long list of projects ready-to-go! :)
Although we love all of the decking space, we will be having a few repairs done to recondition it. :)
Backyard entrance into the garage.
I love that there is a sun room right off of the living room. During the warmer months its going to be so wonderful to use all of the space for entertaining. (i.e. we can't wait to have guests!) :)
First family photos taken at the new house :)
