Thursday, November 12, 2015

We are officially moved in! + Touring the Upstairs

I can't believe it's been almost two weeks!
We moved in October 31st! Above is Evelyn & Will with our newest addition and protector of our farm - Haus! He has lived here since he was a pup (11 years ago) and we were so excited to have him greet us when we drove up!
Home sweet home!

There was a LOT of cleaning to be done on move-in day but my family (parents, siblings + their families) completely rocked and helped nuke the entire place while furniture and such was being brought it. Less than 24 hours after move-in Tommy went to Detroit to work for the week but that gave me some time to settle in with the kids and get as much unpacked as possible without wanting to dive-in to renovations right away. I was excited to be completely "box free" on the main level by the time he got home Friday night - there are still a handful of things in the basement that need to come up (mainly books and decor) but for now the upstairs is starting to feel like home!

Here is the general layout of the upstairs (by no stretch is this to-scale!)
Here are a few pictures of the living room from move-in day (pre-cleaning mind you...) and then a few of now as we're "settling in".
 Walking in the front door.
 Larger part of the living room.
 View of the front yard.
 Small part of the living room (which is now the "play area").
Big living room cleaned up and getting settled in!
The long shelf was used to hold the previous owners oil lamp collection (she had over 300 of them!) I'm not sure if we will keep it up forever or what I'll put on it but it's staying up for now at least.


Here is the kitchen (pre-cleaning...)
 Cleaned and moved in.
 We had to replace the faucet as the old one was broken.
The side door walks into the laundry room on the other side of the kitchen. There is also a half bath and a large closet. This will probably end up being our main mudroom area for shoes and such for now so this week I made a little bench and coat hooks.
 Half bath (this was from when we came to visit a few months ago)
Laundry (again, from a few months ago).
Also - I am in love with main floor laundry! Outside of the side door is the wider part of the deck where we have the grill and eventually plan to have a table to eat outside at.
 Side deck looking towards the front of the house.
And looking back!
This peninsula divides the kitchen and dining room. Right now I have the bottom cupboard storing all our extra homeschool materials/books, etc.
The dining room is one of my favorite rooms. The windows, doors, and skylights make it SO bright. Also - the incredibly view outside! We changed out the lights in here when Tommy came from his week at work and I have a few other things I plan to do in here to update it a bit (once our first big renovation downstairs is done). Before pics...
And some moved-in pictures with the new lights!
Next is the master bedroom.
I didn't love the idea of having a main floor master (or just having our bedroom on a different floor from the kids) but it is a nice big room with great closets and a great bathroom (although it needs some updating)... so no complaints! It also has a walk out onto the back deck (which is currently blocked by kids Beds.
Cleaning the doors to the master bath... whew!

And that's it!
The entire main floor is actually really big - over 1250 square feet! And even though it's not the layout I wanted at all (I'm a two story-house lover) I'm learning to love it and appreciate some of the aspects it has to offer.

This week Tommy's been busy finishing phase one of the basement renovation... which includes one of the three bedrooms (which the kids will share for now) and the basement living room... which will be the kids main play area. And I've been busy continuing to clean up trash and leaves outside, explore the area, paint the rest of the chicken coop, and of course we're anxiously counting down until gun season starts Sunday!

Fresh coat of paint on the garden shed door.
Three sides of the coop/garden shed are painted - one more to go!
 Picture of our road while getting the mail.
 Early morning deer-watching (we see at least a half a dozen if not more during breakfast!)

The creek is nice a clear/algae free right now too.

Basement tour to come soon!
Blessings!

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