House Tour 2013 (Before Move-In)

As you know we moved back in out home

last Saturday

, we are so happy to be home! The morning before we 'officially' moved into our home (again) I snapped some pictures to share our home with prior to moving in. Our living room opens to our newly painted cheery shade of

chartreuse front door

. I'm so in love with this color, its such a fun color next to our grey house. 

Here's a view of our living room looking in from our dining room area. 

Our new wide doorway between our living room and dining / kitchen area really help our home feel so much more open and spacious. One of the best decisions we made during the rebuilding our our home was to make the doorway extra large. Beyond our dining room and kitchen is our new laundry room addition. More details about our laundry room in below. 

Here's a glimpse of our kitchen, its still in need of some finishing touches, but I'll get to all that in a later post along with more pictures. I can tell you this, I'm blown away in love with our kitchen and could not be happier! It's truly my mini dream kitchen and I love the space!  

Here's a better glimpse of our new laundry room space. I plan on using this space as a laundry & mudroom combination. I'm so happy we went a french door with glass panes instead of going with a full door, it really lets so much light in and gives the appearance of a much larger space. 

For flooring in our laundry room, we went with wood look tile, it looks really seamless with our hardwood floors. 

Bam! Another pop of color is awaits when you open the door to our back patio. I'm so thrilled to have access from the inside of our house to our back yard. Before we were only able to access our backyard though a side gate, though the garage or Avery's room [sliding glass doors, but we didn't use the doors] I'm super happy that now when we have guests over they have go though our laundry / mudroom verses walking though a hot garage [huge plus] I have big plans for this little space. 

View of our front door looking in from the hallway. 

Glimpse of Tabari's bedroom, he loves his over-sized light fixture. He's really excited about his bedroom and can't wait to put is personal stamp on it.

Avery's bedroom, we replaced the slding glass door with twin windows, they let so much light into his bedroom. He already loves looking outside while playing in his bedroom. 

Our main bathroom is so much bigger and brighter, more details to come on this space along we details of my plan to upgrade our basic 'off the shelf' vanity. It's going to look super upgraded once I'm done! 

I shared

our master bedroom

a few weeks back, here's one more reminder our the space prior to moving in.

Now that we are all moved into our home, I'm starting to get everything organized and my ideas for our home more settled. I'm not planning on focusing on one room until its done, but to tackle projects on the list of my priority. So they'll be lots of in progress posts of our home, DIY projects along with before and after posts of a variety of projects I'm working on along various everyday happenings around our house [ trying our new recipes, organizing etc] 

I hope you all enjoyed the tour of our house, there's so much more to come! 

There's No Place Like Home

Hi Friends! We moved back home on Saturday and we couldn't' be happier! I had visions of knocking out some great posts this week, but as they say the 'Best Laid Plans of mice and men often go Awry.' 


Saturday was a busy day {with dilemmas and mini drama] filled with moving our belongs home, trying to remember what light switch turned on what. Realizing in the morning we had NO hot water, since the pilot light wasn't lit & being newbies to lighting a pilot light, I was a little freaked. I called PG&E but that meant waiting until the first appointment which wasn't until Tuesday [today 6/25/13] Luckily after reading & re-reading the instructions we were able to get the pilot light lit and have HOT again, glorious hot water. We spent most of the day waiting for deliveries and setting up our kids rooms up. I also discovered we had NO internet working & no dial tone on our land line.

I breathed a huge sigh of relief, because Avery slept in his bed all night! Sunday friends and family stopped to wish us well, it was SO nice sharing all the details with everyone and entertaining! Such a blessing to welcome friends & family in our home again. Sunday things took a turn for the 'not so good.'  Avery getting the stomach throw up bug and spaghetti is NOT fun to cleanup. I adore my new washer & dryer and got a chance to take it for a spin and use all my fancy settings. We now have Internet as of one hour ago [hallelujah!!] & still no phone service, boo! If you follow me on Instagram, then you no my little guy is still sick, huge boo! I took him to the Doctors, and we have to ride this bug out until he gets better. I'm slowly introduces fluids and praying for the best, its been a bumpy ride since Sunday night. I'm just looking forward to the return of my little rambunctious toddler. 

To top it all off, today my little munchkin Tabari, turns 13 today!! Happy Birthday Tabari! I love him so very much, your dad and I are so proud of you! I'm feeling bad our plans didn't happen today. I planned to take him and Avery to a movie and then dinner out with the whole family, followed by a stop at his favorite yogurt spot. Needless to say everything has been put on hold until Friday night. Luckily he's being a good sport and more concerned with Avery getting better. We are renting a movie tonight via Amazon & ordering in [pizza] 

I plan on going though pictures, I snapped over the weekend before we officially moved it and called it ours again! I hope to share them on Wednesday.

Ever had a weekend, were you had all these 'plans' and nothing quite happened they way you intended?