We bought a house!

This is kind of old news, but Andrew and I bought a house! It is our first house and after nearly 6 years of renting, we are glad to be homeowners!



We are super excited to share with you some of the projects that we will be doing around our house, but first here are some before pictures. This is how the house looked when we bought it.

We both really like the front elevation and especially love the color of the brick. We will eventually redo the landscaping in the front and most likely take out the shrubs and replace them with flowers.

When you walk in, my craft room is on the left and you walk into the formal dining room. We are currently making this into our second living room which really hasn't taken too much work.

This is the craft room which faces the front of the house. I love the windows and floors in here! For my birthday, Andrew bought me some pieces that have helped me organize all of my stuff since there is no closet in here.

If you continue walking straight you will find yourself with this view of our kitchen. Our old kitchen only had 2 drawers, so when we saw the peninsula had 10 alone we got pretty excited! We like the layout of the kitchen and will only replace the back splash, lights, sink, and counters as well as install a built in microwave. A double wall oven would be a dream of mine, but we'll see if it happens in this house!

If you were to go around the kitchen to the right, you would go down a small hall straight into the living room. Some people don't like brick fireplaces, but I think that's the way they should all be! You can also see the breakfast nook to the left of this picture and it's big enough to fit our table of 8 and not feel crowded. The only thing we are doing in these two rooms is decor and paint. We will eventually have to replace some windows that don't stay open.

This is the view from the opposite side of the living room and you can really see how open this part of the house is. I really like that I can be cooking and still see the tv or be apart of the conversation without everyone being crowded in our kitchen.

The view from the breakfast nook. That door way near the center left of the picture leads to the laundry room and master bedroom.

Our bedroom has a great bay window. Maybe we'll build a window seat for it which could double as a dog bed. The dogs love sitting on Andrew's window seat in his room at his parents' house.

Our bathroom is a very nice size! The closet is about the size as our guest room at our rent house! And the toilet has it's own room. We weren't expecting to get all of this out of our bathroom. There is nothing urgent that needs to be done in here, but we will eventually replace the counters since they both have burn marks, update the mirrors, add shelves by the tub, and replace the shower with tile and a new surround.

Guest bedroom #1 has lots of space and the closet is huge! No issues here besides it facing the West and getting real hot in the afternoon.

Guest room #2 which will be used as our workout room and Andrew's office until a little Hohlt comes along.

The hall bathroom was recently updated before we bought the house. We have painted and put our own style into it, but the only thing we will replace is the toilet. I think it is 20 years old and is even short for me!

The backyard! We have 2 pecan trees and 2 oak tress back here as well as this giant deck! This is the type of backyard I have always wanted. The trees provide a lot of shade of the dogs in the heat and once we paint the deck it will be awesome of entertain on (of course it needs to be cooler). Over on the right side is a brick patio where Andrew keeps his grill. We will be creating some raised garden beds and attempting to have a little vegetable garden next year.

Another angle of the backyard. These pictures were taken in early March and you can see the trees aren't very full and green. Right now it looks totally different. I'm not looking forward to all the leaves in our yard come fall, but the dogs love jumping in piles of leaves! The fence doesn't look too hot in this picture, but we thought it would survive until the winter when we could replace it in nice weather. However, when Ava broke a board and almost escaped we tried to nail it back on and found that its all rotted. So our plans to replace the fence will probably come much sooner than expected. We are planning on doing it ourselves after getting quotes that were nearly twice the materials.






I hope you have enjoyed looking at some pictures of our house. We fell in love with the yard, all the windows, and the space that it provided us! We have many projects planned that you can keep up with here. First up is scraping down all 2300 sq. ft. of popcorn ceilings in the house before we can move in! Stay tuned to see how we did this torturous task!