We finally closed on our house January 15, 2010. The house buying process was pretty easy peezy until we got to closing and then the bank selling the house became pretty greedy and we had a long 2 week fight with them. NEVER deal with Chase bank. They are horrible. But all in all, it wasn't that bad, and we are very happy with our new home. Now to the good part... pictures! Blogger makes it kind of hard to organize so they might be out of order. (Captions are underneath the pictures).
The front at night. I will get a better picture later.
Welcome to our home!
Our New Address!
Our front window before being frosted.
Front window after being frosted. Yay for privacy!
The powder room at the front entry.
This is our bedroom.
More of our bedroom and new furniture.
Our new dresser.
Our bathroom.
Under the stair storage. IT IS AWESOME.
The right side of the kitchen with our new appliances (A Christmas present from my parents- We don't normally get gifts like this but they took Mattie to California for the National Championship game and they don't like doing for one without doing for the other, so Thanks to my families obsession with UT football (and their love of course ;)) we have new, beautiful appliances.) We LOVE them. They really finished off the house.
The left side of the kitchen. Our stove/range was damaged when it was delivered so we are waiting on a new one.
A view of the whole kitchen.
Another view of our Living Room. Our bedroom is the door to right of the front entry.
View of Living Room from Dining Room. Complete with lazy dog.
View of Living Room from entry way. It is long and narrow so we had to get creative with the couches. Notice our lazy dog sleeping on the couch again. :)
TV area in Living Room.
The guest bathroom upstairs.
Another view of the guest bathroom.
The larger extra bedroom (AKA The grandparent's room- hint, hint- come visit!)
Another view of the larger extra bedroom.
My home office in the loft area.
The smaller extra bedroom/ Heath's Office. (AKA The Longhorn room)
Heath's study area in the smaller extra bedroom.
New front door hardware.
Old door knobs. I am not a fan of gold so these had to go.
Our new beautiful bronzed oil door knobs installed by my very own handy man Heath.
Old Sliding Door Handles
New Sliding door handles
The jungle up front that we need to tame.
My new nemesis- the common weed. I will kill them all!
Ally loves her new backyard! And we love not having to take her out on a leash!So there you have it. We love our new home and have enjoyed getting settled and making it our own. The best part- Not having to move for like 5+ years and not having to live in an apartment! We feel truly blessed right now, especially as so many others struggle over in Haiti to survive after that tragic earthquake. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected in any way by this sad event.
If you haven't already, please head to one of these sites and donate for the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti. Every dollar helps. We did the really simple text option and it will just add our donation onto our cell phone bill.
www.helphaitinow.org
www.redcross.org
www.clintonbushhaitifund.org
3 comments:
I love it! Congrats on your new home. I'm glad the closing wasn't too bad, banks can be really hard to work with. Enjoy!
Yay for pictures, love your house! Can't wait to road trip it down there and see it in person! So jealous you got your appliances for free...dude, that's awesome! I love that Ally is just laying around in the pictures, so funny!
Hey, congratulations on the house! Our bookshelves look similar, but they're a bit different (ours is actually a kids one...the bottom shelf is a little tray that can hold big toys or stuffed animals). We got it for Christmas, but I think it came from Target like yours (I found the bins really cheap on Amazon.com). You mentioned our curtains looked similar, but I didn't get mine at Target, I got them for $5 at Walmart a long time ago. Good times :). House looks great, though! I like the UT room :).
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