The New House!

So we're not quite all put together, but it's getting close enough to share some photos.

So we'll start in the living room:
I am in love with the windows but the entire neighborhood can currently watch our every move. Wood blinds are on order & should be here in a week or two.
Not sure what to do yet with the book shelf. All of our decor is still packed in boxes so I have to decide what to do with it all.

This is another view of the living room from the top of the stairs... you can see one of the two trapezoid windows... the other is in the kitchen. I am anticipating moving our dark brown reclining furniture into the living room once we get it out of Anna's basement because it will go with the dark wood really well & give this furniture a rest until the basement is finished.

Apparently I only caught the bottom of the window in this picture, but if you put this one and the previous one side by side, that would be the whole green wall.
The cabinets are birch, the flooring is wood laminant (Bill & his dad did a beautiful job installing it!) and the sink is black! Yes, Black Swanstone to go with the black appliances. The diswasher is in the island next to the sink. I'm loving it!

Take a quarter turn in the room and you see the dining room with a sliding glass door to the deck and back yard. The blinds are also on order with the rest of the house's window coverings. Our table fits very nicely in the space! Not near as crowded as the previous house!!! Now I can't wait to have people over to eat! The design on the table top also goes very well with the front door. Didn't even plan it!

This is a look at the beautiful staircase. The spindles are oil-rubbed bronze and the wood is poplar, as it is throughout the house. Upstairs you'll find three bedrooms and two bathrooms... but we'll leave those photos for another post. Go downstairs and there's an unfinished family room, bathroom, laundry room and closet. Do down another 1/2 level and there will be a game room, fourth bedroom and the utility room.

And complete the tour around the room and you see the closet and font door. The white door, which you see a bit, takes you out to the three-stall garage. Something else you can't see are the speakers in the ceiling. We'll at some point have them throughout the house & hooked up to different audio components, but for now, the ones in the living room & kitchen are hooked up to the receiver for radio. I forgot just how much I missed not having a radio upstairs at the old house!

More photos to come as we continue to make ourselves at home!