So I can officially announce this on here - we're in escrow on a house! We're so excited! Our closing date is July 22nd, and we'll take some time to paint and do some minor cosmetic repairs before moving over officially.
Let's take a tour!
Kitchen area - this photo is from the staged house. They have since put in a black dishwasher (too short) and a white range/microwave and stove, and there is no fridge.) To the left of the fridge is the pantry which extends back underneath the stairs.
View from the kitchen into the great room. This room gets TONS of light. We will not be putting our dining area there, and would actually move it farther to the right, where that chaise is and have our livingroom area on the left side.
Another view of the great room area
Back yard...we need to buy a mower!
Another view of the back yard where you can see the trampoline set INTO the ground and a little of the patio area. We'll be getting rid of this...too much of a hazard with a toddler!
Master bedroom (staged, obviously). This room gets tons of light too. And we don't have that ceiling fan.
Master bathroom. To the left is the HUGE master closet. It's the length from about the middle of the first sink you see back to the back wall and is about as wide as from the doorway on the left to the tub area. The back door on the right is the toilet room. The bad is that this room has carpeting but we'll eventually rip it out and put finishers down for the bedroom door and the closet door to keep carpet in there, and put tile down in this bathroom.
Bath tub. It's calling my name. And since this room is on the back of the house, it gets TONS of light.
Bonus area at the top of the stairs. They repainted it a nice green, which we'll be keeping, before we saw it. We'll use this as an office space with our "L" shaped desk in the left corner, and Santi's play area on the right. Just to the left at the front of the photo is the laundry area. And there's one bedroom with a walk in closet to the left of this area, another bedroom with another walk in closet behind where you're standing in this photo and another bathroom (kids bathroom) off this area too. And the master is off this area as well.
What will be Santi's room - over looks the street and is over the garage. We're planning on doing the airplane theme that we have in his existing room, but we'll be able to paint here! :) Not sure what color to paint the walls but since his colors in his room are light green, light blue, tan and chocolate brown, we'll find some combo of that. Probably lead more towards the tan though since it'll be more neutral.
Santi's walk in closet - since he won't be needing all of that space for clothes, I'm planning on creating a little reading nook/fort/play area in there for him on the floor along with using it to store his clothes.
Laundry area (upstairs!) and part of the bonus area. We like this color and are keeping it. We'll be adding a couple of shelves in the laundry area.
Second room. It used to be blue and then they painted a pinkish color on it (but you can still see the blue.) So we'll be repainting this, although we're not sure what color.
Kid's bathroom. We'll eventually replace the counter tops (or put in a whole new vanity with a vessel sink?) and the flooring, but for now it'll do. We have to buy a shower curtain rod since they took that too!
Our room...Tito and I keep saying we love being adults and moving into a new house because we automatically get the biggest and best room! :) We'll paint in here as well, although we're not sure what color yet.
Our bathroom - like mentioned before, we'll eventually rip out the carpet here and tile, and then we'll replace the counters and maybe the sinks (the one on the left has a rust stain around the stopper that I need to work some magic on, but otherwise, we'll replace them. We love the vanities though - so much storage space!
Looking left into the master closet - we'll eventually do some built ins in here
In the closet - built ins will happen on the left wall and I want to build in a desk area on the back wall and use the area behind the door for shelving to house my craft stuff, and turn part of this "room" into my craft room. That way it'll be out of the public view, and I can work on something and shut the door to keep things from getting touched by little hands!
Our shower
View down the stairs - we'll eventually put hardwoods on the lower level
Garage! And our realtor and inspector! :) We'll paint this white or beige - we hate the look of bare sheetrock! We'll also probably paint the floor since they seem to have used it for some random spray painting and painted shapes on the floor (you can see one near our realtor's feet!) We'll also install shelving on the back wall and want to get some hanging storage so we can put things like luggage, etc up and out of reach.
We have a few repairs to do (it was a foreclosure so they took all of the shelving in the pantry, all of the forced air grates in the floors, and all of the outlet covers in the kitchen, as well as the towel bars and toilet paper holders in the bathrooms and the front door handle.) So we've got to replace all of that stuff and we'll be painting our bedroom and bathroom, the kid's bathroom, guest bedroom and Santi's room. We like all of the colors in the bonus area and in the downstairs, aside from the blood red 1/2 bath on the first floor, so we'll repaint that too.
There's also great crown molding in parts of the house which we're excited about. We can't wait to move in and spread out - I am going from having all of my kitchen/dining room stuff shoved into 11 cabinets and a sideboard to 26 cabinets and a pantry! I'm so excited!
I'll be posting more home photos as we get closer and move in! And then there's all of the personalizing and making it "ours!"
