Settling In

For those who might be interested in how the house is looking now (my mom), I thought I'd post some progress pics.



Exterior

But before we go inside, let's start with the exterior. This is what the house looked like for most of the time we lived there.

And here's what it looks like now. We had it painted the week after we left for Australia, and then right before we moved back in the garage door broke for the second time and they were looking for an antique used part to fix it...so we decided just to get a new door. I think it makes a HUGE difference in the curb appeal. Who knew you could get so excited about a garage door.


Play Room

We made the front room a play room/guest bedroom.

Going to get cork tiles to put above the bookcase for posting the kids' art work.


Currently searching Craigslist for the right sofa bed to make the guest room portion happen. It will go where the chairs are now.


Children's Bedroom

This room was my first priority so that we could get Gus settled as quickly as possible. (Hopefully the humidifier by the crib won't be a permanent fixture...) Gus is still in the crib for now, but we're hoping to transition him to the twin bed soon. Baby girl will probably be in our room for the first few months, but by the time we move her to the crib I'm hoping Gus will be long done with it.


Still several things to put on the walls in this room, but at least it's a working room. (That cable cord is courtesy of the renters...sigh. I need to figure out how to make it go away.)


The "closet door" fabric is from Ikea. I'd picked it out for the original gender neutral nursery I was planning for Agustin. It makes me happy.

Inside the closet could still use a little work.


Office

The office is the biggest bugaboo, but then it always is. It actually already looks better than this because I worked on it some more today. But I'll save that for another update.



Master

I had a picture of the master, but it's just not worth posting. Our clothes are in the closet (mostly), the bed is made, but that's about it.

Hall Bath

Presentable!


Kitchen

Like I said, the kitchen's been functional since day one with our dishes and cooking staples, but we're still living amongst clutter there. Particularly that bar area--since the Possum can't reach that high, that's where everything dangerous goes. Or anything I'm tired of picking up off of the floor.


Dining Room

I keep telling myself that tomorrow is the day I declutter the dining room table for good, but as soon as I remove a few things, I use the space for other stuff. Eventually it will be a full dining table again.



Living Room

...is functional. Or it mostly was--today I sort of threw up pictures and picture frames all over the place. But here's what it looked like before I did that. Pictures are not where they will actually land.


Hall

I'd always been meaning to do gallery walls in the hall, and today I finally got it started. Granted there aren't pictures in all of the frames, but the frames are placed!


Backyard

Some friends of ours (Hi, Ru!) got their patio furniture at Ikea, where I hadn't thought to look before. We ended up getting a similar (if not the same?) dining set as well as a reclining chair and a couple of ottomans (we're going to get a second reclining chair, but they only had one at the time) and that storage bench against the wall. We can't wait to hang out out there with friends!