Come On In

I've been trying to figure out the best way to do a blog tour of our 'new' house...I still haven't figured it out, but I'm going to go ahead and give it a try.  At the end of my last post, I said that I was going to start with the kitchen...change in plans, I'm going to start at the front door (makes sense, right?), and go from there.

So, here is the view from the front door...

This is one of my favourite parts of the house - I have a lot of 'favourite parts', so get used to me saying that! :)  I made my first purchase for the house last week, and it is something for the staircase - I bought two sets of picture frames from Winners (14 frames in total)...I can't wait to decorate that wall on the left!  I brought them home and I think Curt was even a little excited about the purchase...I guess I'm not the only who felt like that wall was calling out for pictures, lots of pictures!

Another view with better lighting...

So, the wallpaper and carpet will obviously be torn down/out!  And, the stairs and bannister will be refinished - not sure if we'll go with the same finishes on the stairs (white with dark brown), or if we'll change that? 

OK, from here we'll take a look at the living room - in the pictures above, you can see a small part of the living room door frame on the left side of the picture.

First, you walk through these beautiful French doors!  Yup, you got it, another 'favourite part'!

I think I mentioned in my last post that the current owners have been using the house as a bit of a storage unit - the cabinets and furniture you'll see in these next pictures all belong to them, but it's in our contract that they empty the house before our closing date, so just picture the room without the 'extras'. 

This room is DARK right now, so a coat of paint (or three!) will be necessary, for sure! 

North wall...

East wall...

South wall...

Behind that couch is a set of doors, right now they lead out to that horrible cinder block 'deck' that I talked about in my last post.  But, in the future they will lead out to a screened in porch!  As you can see, this room also has a fireplace - this is the first of three fireplaces you'll see on your tour! 

So there you have it, the tour has officially started and you've seen the first room...there's plenty more to come, I just need to find the time to create the posts...I'll try my best to get another post a two up this week.