Home Sweet Home

After just under a year in Maryland, Ben and I moved into our new house! It was built in 1934 and there are so many things we love about it, quirks and all. 

We had church, school, and Ultimate friends helping us move in and they worked FAST! Of course, I forgot to take any pictures of our friends working hard to move us into our new home but I'd like to thank Toby, Chuck, Barbara, Ryan, Aaron, Danielle, Nathan, and Andrew for all the hard work.

For all the family and friends out there who have been asking for pictures, here is a virtual tour!

Starting at the front door, you can walk straight into the kitchen, make a left and you'll be in our breakfast nook.

From the breakfast nook, you enter the dining room. If you notice, these chairs are from my first post! Just like the table and chairs, my parents also restored the china cabinet. They've been so good to Ben and me! If you're confused about the window valances, they were left by the previous owners. They went really well with the design scheme they had but we're currently deciding what to do with them.

The living room is not even close to being finished so you just get a picture of how it looked when it was empty before we moved in...

Our basement is about 3/4 finished and the other 1/4 is an unfinished workshop type area. The colors of the floor looks weird in these pictures but in person they are a cream, light brown, and bark brown. Random surprise, the floors are HEATED! It definitely was not something that we were looking for in a house but we've excited to try them out this winter! Since these old houses were only built with one bathroom on the 2nd floor, the previous owners installed a full bath downstairs. We're very thankful for more than one bathroom.

Another quirk of a house built in 1934 is that the staircases are small... and that's an issue for a queen mattress and box spring. But we give you the answer to this issue, a pulley system. Nathan guided the mattress from the bottom.

Ben and I were on our balcony with the rope looped around our waists

                                                 

And the finished product!

 As small as our one-bedroom apartment was this past year, we had gotten used to having a walk in closet so that was something that we were looking for in our home. We were very excited when we saw this cedar-lined closet. It is great!

Across the hall, we have a nursery, excuse me, dissertation dungeon. The jungle theme really gets the brain working.

There's an extra bedroom that will have a set of bunk beds thanks to a donation from Ben's family.

So that's most of the house... thanks for taking the tour. We're open for visitors so come on over yall!

P.S. We have a secret passageway but you'll have to come over to find it! Putting a picture on here will ruin the surprise!