Wednesday 14 January 2009

New Home Update

I thought it was time to show you what our home is beginning to look like now.


This is the living room, sorry it's a bit on the dark side. We repainted the walls a soft green, replacing the original blue. There is also new flooring. We had the dirty carpets and various other layers of flooring removed. Our furniture was on the large size so we had to purchase a love seat.

The dinning room. We have not changed any of the wall colours but the new flooring was continued into this room and then into the hall area. It still looks pretty cluttered as all our pictures are either on the table, piano or propped against the wall. We have yet to decide where to put what pictures.

The kitchen has new fridge and stove; we brought our portable dishwasher with us and still need to remove the old built in one as it leaks everywhere. We've added a white shelving unit (that isn't in this picture) by the side of the stove and several of our extra small appliances live there.


You will notice the new burgundy paint on the one wall we are going to continue this colour to the right of the stairs; this is the front door wall, there is also a window on this wall which is reflecting burgundy wall making the paint look a bit lighter there. You can't see the new flooring but it is also in this area. We have a small bookcase to place where the box and cat scratching post are, this will probably be the new home for the photo albums. The stairwell wall will be where the family pictures will hang.



This is the largest of the three bedrooms and as you can see we've taken it over as our study. This room needs lots of sorting out as there are still boxes to be emptied and small display shelves to be hung ready for my thimble collection. This will also be used as a guest room. We are considering buying a futon to put here which will double as a comfortable place to read.

If you remember from the original pictures of the house this room was a dirty orange colour. Before the furniture arrive the colour was changed to blue. I'm really happy with this room other than it needs pictures on the walls.


This is the other bedroom which we haven't done anything to other than place furniture in the room again it needs pictures on the walls.

Slowly the house is starting to look like our home. The picture hanging will take some time as we have more pictures than wall space; and of course we have to finish painting the hall area. All in all things are working out nicely by Spring the inside should be done for now and it will be time to work on the outside.




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