House Tour!

Our house is done.  Well, decorated, and everything is put away, and there are only a few things to deal with for now.  Like holiday decorating :-D. 

So come on in:

 Front Door

 Non-functioning fireplace and secretary desk.

 

Expedit shelving over desk

 Desk, shredder, maps and posters in a tube.

 Our living room

 What a sectional couch looks like when you divide it.

And into the dining room:

 Our massive table and a large amount of food.

 Our new curtains in the dining room.

There isn't much to say about our awesome kitchen.

And the finished bathroom/laundry space. 

And then upstairs:

 The beginnings of a gallery wall

 We're having some issues with it.

The bedroom:

 This painting over our bed is by my grandma.

The only two closets in the house. Race medals, ties, and belts are opposite.

The guest room:

 The painting is by my great aunt

The sewing room/office/second guest room:

 Husband's desk space

 The futon

 My craft area

All of my scrapbooking stuff is under the table. I'm still working on the organization.

And the bathroom:

Tada!

A Tour

It seems unfair to continue writing about the house without offering a tour.  So without further ado (all photos personal, please do not copy/paste/repost/pin)

 

Living Room

I don't think I'll ever get over opening the door to this.

 

Two ceiling fans!

 

Or walking through this.

Dining Room

 

Getting to cook in this:

Kitchen

Kitchen

A reno of this bathroom is in the works - that tiled portion next to the tub might become a closet/storage, and the plan is to add a much wider vanity and medicine cabinet with additional storage.

Upstairs Bath

Upstairs Bath - window and vanity

I love the wall color in our bedroom - it's a lovely sage color. 

Master Bedroom

The guest room, aka our bedroom for the first week we lived in the house while we awaited the delivery of the bed.

The office/second guest room.  I love this wall color as well.  I dislike that you have to walk through this room to go to the bathroom.  Everyone asks why this isn't the master, but it seems rude to have the master be the only room with access to the bathroom, and also you can't fit a queen sized bed and night tables in it because the doors are weird. 

Office/guest room

 

Box Spring Saga

In today's edition of, "Furniture that doesn't fit in a rowhouse," we will be discussing box springs.

If you live in a rowhouse and buy a queen sized bed, buy the split box spring. Even if you think it'll fit because you measured, just buy the split. Even with a low profile spring. It's not gonna fit. In talking to a number of other friends, it seems like if you live in any house except a rancher with a direct access door into the bedroom, you should just buy the split. 

Once our mattress was delivered and we established that yes, the box spring was not fitting, we found out that the spring + re delivery would cost over $150, we opted to go another way. 

 

We followed an instructable, sawed the wood in half, folded it, took it up, and then put it back together. Overall, it was pretty smooth although pretty late at night when we started, and a time consuming process. So yeah, just buy the split spring.