Entry
The door to the side enters the garage and the wood doors on the right is a coat closet. The flooring is DuraCeramic; rug and bench are Ikea.
Living Room
The living room, 'dining room', and kitchen are all open to each other. Behind the half wall is the stairs coming from the entry.
Kitchen
Though this kitchen seems small, it was so well planned out. We had plenty of room for all of our stuff and the island was the perfect size. The tall cabinet on the left was the pantry. The hallway on the right leads to two bedrooms and a bathroom.
Dining Room
The patio door to the deck is off to the right. And this table and chairs are so dear to me. They were my grandma's grandparent's. So needless to say, I've very protective of them. You'll notice I love old pieces as you tour my home, especially family ones. They may not be 'modern' but they hold much more meaning and warmth than a store bought item.
Hallway
A lot of these items show part of our history. They are old family photos, currently family photos, my wedding invitation, postcards from our travels, old family frames. I love SO MUCH adding history into our house and looking at these things and thinking of my family. The hutch is also a family heirloom passed down to me. It's wonderful for display, especially during the holidays.
Master Bedroom
This bedroom was a labor of love for me. Most of this room was DIYed by myself. I saw this wall treatment in Emily's office of Jones Design Company. It took me most of a winter (thanks to several Minnesota blizzards), many cramped hands, and strong legs from climbing our step ladder...but I handpainted the entire 'wallpaper'. It had such a dramatic impact on this room. I used a dark navy for an impact wall behind the headboard.
The headboard was also an easy DIY. It consisted of plywood, a foam mattress pad, fabric, and decorative nail heads.
I also refinished both the night stands. One was from my husband's grandfather's house and the other was from his parent's house. I removed the bad finish and stained them darker colors. These two projects were very time consuming.
The chandelier was a favorite of mine. I found it at a local antique market and fell in love the second I saw it. We even learned to hardwire it ourselves!
With such a neutral house, it was fun to jazz up this room a bit.
Upstairs Bathroom
Our upstairs bathroom was the main bath for the upstairs. It had two entry doors - one from the hallway and one from the master bedroom. It had no natural light (no windows) so it was a pretty dark room. We had thought about putting in a solar light, but never got around to it before selling. We installed the floating shelves above the toilet, as well as switching out the towel rack and finding a mirror at Hobby Lobby (so we wouldn't have to have stock builder grade mirrors - yuck). The shower curtain is from Pottery Barn.
Basement Living Room
So since this is a bi-level, the windows let in a crazy amount of light. The windows are basically level with the ground. Along with this being our main tv/sports watching area, it also housed all of the kids toys. I prefer the toys to be in one area versus in their rooms along with a 'toy room'. I was so thankful that this living room was so large. It made hanging out with our friends and our kids much more cohesive - i.e. husbands could watch football along with 'watching' their kids at the same time!
Basement Bathroom
This bathroom was pretty small, but served it's purpose. We added another store bought mirror versus using the standard building grade. I hung up a few pictures and called it good.
Kid's Bedroom #1
This is my oldest daughter's room. I made a circle stencil and spray painted silver sparkles on her headboard wall to add some fun! Most of the wares are HomeGoods, Ikea, and Target (obviously).
Kid's Room #2
This is my youngest daughter's room. She moved rooms shortly before we put our house on the market, so it isn't as fun and cute as a little girls room should be. I found that awesome octopus print at HomeGoods. I adore it. The bed was made from converting her crib into this full sized bed.
Outside
I'm not going to post outside photos of this home just for security reasons. But I wanted to share what we did. Obviously, since this was a new build, we were tasked with landscaping, grass, etc. Here's all that we did:
Installed a sprinkler system ourselves (it was a lot of work)
Planted grass (and picked LOTS of weeds until the grass was thick enough)
Created landscaping around the entire house and electrical boxes (paving stones, plants, mulch, etc)
This was an incredible amount of hard labor and work, but I think I was the most proud of this. I was proud because we did it all ourselves instead of hiring it out. The only thing we hired out was the grass which was hydroseeded. Maybe some day I'll add some of the landscaping photos.
So that's House Number 4. We put a lot of work into this home - both inside and outside - and I'm so proud of it. I was sad to leave, but so thankful of the wonderful memories we created there. It had been the longest we lived in one place! Amazing! I hope you enjoyed the short tour and come check out our new home and all that changes that brings!
