I’ll finish our one-year house tour with the yard. I won’t lie, our front yard looks a little scrappy. It’s shady, which is nice, but the downside is there isn’t much grass. Also, that red gravel path really is the pits. Small children love to pick up the rocks and transfer them to various other parts of the front yard so that the whole thing has a kind of speckled effect. But isn’t the porch nice and inviting? Don’t worry front yard, some day we’ll give you some love. As you know, we’ve put our efforts into the backyard this year. And by “we” I mean “David.” We did hire…

I’ll finish up the inside with the hallway, bathroom, and kids’ room. You get one look inside our current bedroom which is in-process. The bathroom door is in the hallway to the left, linen closet straight ahead with a bedroom on either side. Here’s the bathroom, which other than having a ventilation fan installed, has remained untouched (well, I mean, except for lots of cleaning). View looking back toward the kitchen. Our bedroom at the exact time of this blog post, looking a little sparse and a little messy, which goes to show we are real people. We never did settle into the room this year — hang curtains (which have…

The kitchen has probably been changed the least since we moved in. It’s old, but perfectly functional. David removed some of the cabinet doors when we bought the house, painted the walls, and we bought the island, but other than that, this is basically how the kitchen looked. It’s a tiny kitchen but has lots of light and there’s a good-sized pantry. I have a whole Kitchen board on Pinterest with ideas for our kitchen remodel, which may or may not happen in a year or so. I don’t think we’ll take out any walls; just update the cabinets and light fixtures, backsplash, and maybe some appliances. It’s fun to dream.…

This week is our one-year anniversary of buying a house! Can you believe it? We own a house! Sometimes I still have to pinch myself to believe it’s real. I thought I’d celebrate with a little updated house tour throughout the rest of the week. Let’s start with the inside, shall we? Some of you have asked about how the layout works. When you open our front door, you’re in the living room, I took this photo from our “entryway,” and straight ahead is our tiny hallway with two bedrooms to the right, and the bathroom (that’s a closet door directly ahead). Head into the hallway and turn left and you’re in…