This week, the piano got serviced and tuned, we opened up checking and savings accounts at a new bank, and I started sewing for a new Days For Girls group. We watched three more Pirates of the Caribbean movies and have just one left to go. We took lovely daily bike rides around our new neighborhood. We enjoyed the Saturday sessions of General Conference yesterday with Melanie Johnsen who drove in from Columbia for the weekend (our first houseguest). But, in this blog, I want to introduce our new home:
our front door and our side door. Next spring, I will have pots of flowers and herbs on the right side of the side door steps. The close up of the rocks that we have collected over the years. I think I might line up outside window sills with them once the window people come to do their fixing.
Here is a view of the house from the garage with a closeup of the deck. Also a view of our garage waaaaay in the back of our property. The only yard work I have done so far is to extend an already existing iris bed further to plant the saved iris rhyzomes I brought from Columbia. I might have pushed it as far as storing them so I am not really sure they were viable when I planted them. I guess time and next spring will tell.... I have also dug up grass around the garage and back by the gate to plant daffodils and later zinnias .
Our living room and kitchen/dining room. The living room is where I teach my cello lessons using the chairs by the window. Someday, we might swap out the pink couches for a sectional....maybe. We bought the island and the metal shelves in the kitchen to provide additional storage space. There is a wall curio shelf that will go above the table but we failed in our attempt to install it so we'll have to get a professional to do it.
Just off the dining area is the libary/family history room. Chock full of books, CDs, DVDs, and shelves and tubs of family history (including in the closet). My beloved organ-turned-desk is also there. Next door is the TV/sewing room.
At the back of the house is our bedroom and the full master bath. There is also a full bathroom off of the hallway with a linen closet. We have two additional closets off of the hall which we use as pantries.
The downstairs - so much room for everything! Laundry area, tubs of holiday decor, food storage, Steve's trains and sports, toy area, our guest bedroom (to eventually have two additional walls to enclose it) and our huge guest bathroom complete with two cedar lined closets.
The basement windows are glass tiles to allow great light. There are large ledges to display some of our many, many knic knacks.
Finally, our garage that is surprisingly large. There is plenty of room for a car, bikes, tools, and garden supplies.
