Let me invite you in...

Well I am finally ready to post pics of our house and give you all the grand tour! I have been working on this post for some time and every time I was ready to publish it I would finish another small project and want to update it...so here I am almost a month later actually ready to publish! Since we have family and friends all over this country and world, for that matter, consider this a chance for us to invite you into our home!

We have much more room than we had at our house in Arkansas so furniture/decor has been shifted around and we have purchased some new things. So sit down, relax, and enjoy the tour!

Guest Bedroom

This room inherited our old bedroom furniture and our old living room curtains...a new combination but one that worked out really well! We actually painted this room although you can't really tell...let's just say I thought the paint I chose would have a little more color in it...oh well it works for now!

This is the smallest room in the house and somewhat of a tight squeeze for the furniture but we made it all work. It has an adjoining bathroom as well for our guests to use as well as a big closet that serves as storage for all of my decorations and such!

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Dining Room

This room is huge and we really didn't have much furniture for it so we bought several new pieces to fill this area. We have our dining room table along with a small sitting area and it works well. I was able to put my cross wall up on the opposite wall and plan to refinish my Grandmother's desk and transform it into a table to sit under the crosses. Just in case you were wondering I am working on filling the frames with pictures so they look funny now with the same pic of some random little girl in them!

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Living Room

I shared some pics of this room before but here's a few more! We LOVE this room and spend a lot of time here...it's completely open to the kitchen which is what I have always wanted so I can be involved in play time or TV watching even if I'm cooking or cleaning up! Our couch fits just great and that's pretty much the only furniture we have in here.

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Kitchen

We didn't really do too much here...I thought we might paint it the same neutral brown color as the rest but considering we were way in over our heads on the parts of the house we had already committed to painting it did not happen! We may paint it eventually but for now this is how it is...I did make some curtains for the windows and that's about it!

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The Unpacking Stage...craziness!

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Master Bedroom

We were lucky to receive a king size bed from my parents and new bedding as well! We flip flopped some furniture around and bought a few new pieces as well to make up our master bedroom and we love it! We have an adjoining room which works perfect as our office / craft room and it's a great use of space! We have an antique dresser that I still need to refinish and paint that will go in our bedroom as well...pretty much my last project...woohoo!

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After...Miss Riley's Room

Riley has a bigger room than she had before and I am still hunting for a few additional wall hangings but all of her old decor works just great! We painted her room a peachy pink color that looks perfectly girly! Riley has a bathroom across the hall where she gets her baths so I made a new shower curtain and it's now a shabby chic bathroom that she can grow into!

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Playroom / Overflow Guest Room

With the models that our neighborhood offered there was an option to have a third car garage or a 4th bedroom...the original owners opted for the 4th bedroom and it works great as a playroom / overflow room for guests! It is sort of a hidden room as you have to meander through the laundry room to get there and it's awkward in the sense that it's shaped like a third car garage and it has no closet...yet more reasons why it's a perfect room for what we are using it for!

We ALL love having a separate playroom for Riley...a place where she can not get into trouble and can make a complete mess! She plays in here alone if we need to get ready or get something done...we play in there with her often as well...and sometimes we pick a few toys and bring them out in the living room / kitchen! We used our old guest bedroom furniture in here so if we have extra guests they have a bed to sleep in as well!

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Backyard

This is one of our favorite parts of the house...we haven't spent quite as much time out there in the past few weeks because it's been pretty cool in the evenings...we're looking forward to a heat wave!!! We love to eat dinner out here and just sit out and hang with the dogs! Riley loves to play out here as well. We have golfers drive by all the time but it doesn't bother us at all! We've added a few flowers and our patio furniture but that's about it!

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I am taking a stab at growing my own herbs...so far I have basil, parsley, thyme, and cilantro...all is well except for my cilantro...I might have to try that one again! We use the basil ALL the time and it grows back so fast...it's so great!

Is this not the coolest looking flower ever?

My neighbors gave me a clipping of this cool plant...they couldn't even remember what it was called but they have gotten several other plants out of single clippings so mine is planted and I hope I get a few more of these awesome looking flowers!

Well that's our crib...hope you enjoyed the tour!