House Tour

Yesterday we headed over to the house to finally open the door for ourselves. We wanted to go through each room and make a list of what needed to be done prior to moving in. Here is the house tour before we put our touches on it.

The outside:

The right side of the house from the driveway:The left side of the house and side entrance:
The old dug well surrounded by flowers on the left side of the house:
A view from our yard:

Lily enjoying her new yard:
This is the side door entrance into the kitchen/dining area. We are going to keep the colors in here. I like the yellow against the dark wood beams. We are going to give everything a new coat of paint though.This will be our bedroom. We are going to paint it a new color. We can't decide between "Lyndhurst Gothic Tan" or "Almond Oil." They are both very similar. It should lighten the room up a bit and will go nicely with the quilt I am finishing for our bed.
This is the laundry closet. The wall paper has got to go and we will just paint it.
The bathroom needs a new coat of paint. Probably a mauve color similar to what it is now to match the floor. The tub needs new caulking too.

This is the entry from the back addition to the original part of the house:
Here is our living room. I LOVE the fireplace with the old beehive oven. We are going to put a woodstove in.
This is the front entry way. Check out the old lock on the front door.This is going to be Finn's room. We are going to paint it "Emerald 3," basically a soft green. We have talked about painting some monkeys around the room, but that may come later.


So that it the new homestead. We begin deep cleaning on Sunday. Then we are going to start painting and we want to seal the floors. We are having the radon mitigated on the 20th and the 24th is the big moving day. I am so excited!

We met one of our new neighbors, Art, and he was wonderful. He and his wife and a few of his children live behind us. Art has 9 boys and 2 girls and all of the boys are red headed! He has 40 hens and told us to help ourselves to eggs any time. He also has beautiful veggie gardens and said he would bring us some. He was driving his tractor around and hauling out bamboo that was completely overgrown at our property line and he offered to take away ours as well. He also pointed out some wood that he chopped down for the previous owners after the ice storm and said he would help haul it out for firewood. Super nice. He filled my heart with joy. Country living, here we come!