House Pictures

Today I officially turned in the keys to the apartment, so it feels quite nice to only live in one place. No more rent and morgage and no more double bills! I've been horrible about updating the blog, so here are some pictures of the house now that we are actually living here.

Here is an updated picture of the front. I've done some planting and we've added the Georgia flag. Our challenge now is maintaining the professional landscaping and keeping the stuff I planted alive. It's been fun to see things sprout up out of the ground this spring. We never knew these plants were here when we bought the house. Oh neighbors, please don't tattle on me for violating the watering bans in the broad daylight! =) Clearly, I'm not an environmentalist!

Here is the living room with our new TV, which he purchased as our "pain and suffering" reward from the accident (which we haven't even received yet...but we couldn't wait any longer!). Eric is amazed at the awesome picture it gets with the Blu-Ray player. Lost looks pretty darn good on this screen!

The kitchen still continues to be the highlight of the house for me. I didn't know I could LOVE a refrigerator so much. The express defrost drawer seriously has the the best invention ever. Throw frozen meat on the cold plate, set the draw on express defrost...and defrosted meat is ready in a few hours. Ok, I just got way too excited about defrosted meat. No fridge will ever compare to this again! Hope it doesn't die...I'm not sure we could afford a replacement! The fridge is actually built into the cabinents, so I'm not sure how we'd ever replace it with something else. Oh well, not going to worry about that for now!

Also in the kitchen we have used our new indoor grill on the stove. It was fun to grill inside, however, we quickly learned that our smoke detector works just fine and is very sensitive! Apparently we can bake brownies and cook casserole in our convection microwave, but I haven't ventured to try either of those yet.

This is the dining room with the cute table that my parents donated to us.

Our bedroom

And a view into our huge cloest. And of course, my famed "wall of shoes!" I told Eric that I wanted all of my shoes to be "happy" in the new house. I was nice enough to give Eric 2 shelves for shoes. I've got the other 7 of them...and then there is still some flip flop overflow.

Here is the guest room. I am hoping to update it with new bedding and paint next year. The other bedroom is the office, but it's not quite set up enough to post pictures.

And the hall bathroom

Projects for the near future include...buy new end/coffee tables and a rug for the living room, hang up some pictures on the walls, but patio furniture and set up our outdoor fireplace, refinish some spots on the hardwoods, replace some dead plants...and for me to figure out how to back out of the driveway without running over the drain spout on the gutter. Hey, I only crumbled it three times. It's metal...it bends back together! =)