Home Tour!

I am so excited to be sharing our very first new home tour! Eeeeeeeeek!  I wish I could invite you all to a real home tour, complete with cookies and chai, but alas, the internet will have to do.  Unless you live near me.  If so, then give me a call, yo.

Be prepared for a gillion pictures.  I narrowed them down from a gazillion.  You’re welcome.

So, we have a front door and we have a screened-in porch with a side door.  It’s one of those situations where visitors use our front door and close friends use our side door.  You guys would obviously qualify as the latter.  So as of moving day, this is what you would see when you came in our side door.

A pretty gigantic kitchen, complete with handmade cabinets.  A couple of the doors stick a little bit, and it just makes my heart swell with love.  This home has been loved!

The home was built in 1953 and the oven and range are original to the house.  Pretty cool.  Oh, and yes, that would be carpet in the kitchen.  You can tell it’s been there awhile, but there were no stains.  These people were meticulous!

 The corner window above the sink was one of the first things I noticed about the house.  Before it was ours I would park in the driveway and look through that window like a creeper.  I couldn’t help it.  (Thankfully, no one lived in it at the time of my “creeping.”)

And this would be the other side of the kitchen.  The side door is on the right and the sliding doors are the pantry.  Also important to note, whoever wallpapered this kitchen?  They knew their stuff.  It took four hours just to remove the paper on this one wall.

If you were to go in our front door, you would be met with our living/dining area.  Prepare yourself.

For the wall of mirrors!!!  Dum dum dum.  (Oh, and also the cute mid-century wood thing to mark the entry way.)

Just inside the front door is a coat closet.  It makes us feel super fancy.

But back to the wall of mirrors.  The mirrored wall.  The ballet dancer’s paradise.  The parent of a toddler’s worst nightmare.  And notice the mirrored outlet covers?  These people went all out.

Oh mirrored wall, how lovely are your panes.  We do adore the chandelier.  I just want to hug it.

The living room is a really great size.  That giant window just makes me melt.  And those curtains?  There are two layers of curtains on each window and both are operated on a pulley system like hotel windows.  Prett-ty fancy.

When you leave the living room, you pass the entrance to our basement.  I’ll share that tour for another day to cut down the billions of pictures.  Just know it’s 70s-tastic.

Then we have our hall.  Complete with handrails with tennis balls on the ends.

On one end of the hall is this small bathroom.  Super tiny with a wood slider thing for a door.  It’s adorable.  Both bathrooms have a very fancy little feature:

It looks like a piece of metal on the wall, but you just push in one end …

… turn it around …

… and it’s a handy dandy toothbrush holder!  Our house is full of little things like this.  The previous family designed and built the house and seemed to adore little gadgets.

The next room in the hall is the guest room.  I’ve never seen shutters like that on windows – so cute!

Then we have another room, which is now dubbed the “craft room.”

Further down the hall is a linen closet

There’s also another closet which has an entrance to the attic in the top of it.  The bottom part of the closet, however, flips out and turns into a little step stool to help you get into the attic.  See?  The previous owners were so cute.

I forgot to take pictures of our bedroom until we had already moved our bed in.  This does look like a sad “before” pic, but we love it.  Well, we love the size and the potential of it.  Not so much the greenish cream walls and the lacy curtains.

On the other side is our closet and a small handrail.  Nice.

The last room upstairs is our bathroom.  Oh how happy this room makes me.  That mint green tub is my new best friend.

Under the mint green sink is a laundry chute (LAUNDRY CHUTE!!!) that leads to the laundry room in the basement.  That will be fun when smaller Gothras fill the home.  Who am I kidding, this adult Gothra adores throwing things down there.  And then running downstairs to make sure my dirty laundry safely made its way to the laundry room.  Love it.

Timothy liked to joke about how much he loved those bathroom safety handles.  Problem was, I don’t think he was joking.  They lasted for about a week after we moved in.  Ha!

And on that note, I think this concludes the first tour of our new home!  Yay!  I’ll share a tour of the basement asap.  Just envision rows and rows of storage shelves and a storm bunker and that will give you a good preview.

After writing this, I just feel so unbelievably blessed and humbled.  God completely orchestrated this whole thing, and I am overwhelmed at His goodness.

~Whitney