First comes Love, then comes Marriage...

then comes a Mortgage! (Sorry parents - we only have grand-dogs for you for now)

We bought a house!

It's a charming little Cape Cod - 4 BR/2BA with a lovely great room with a fireplace and a rec room and lots of patio space. I haven't taken many photos yet on the inside of the rooms that were shown on the MLS listing, so I'll just post what I have for now. We're so excited about making it our own and finally having a backyard for the girls (Rosie & Daisy) and plenty of space for friends and family to come visit.

Here's the tour...

When you first walk in, you see the stairs and the living room. Notice the terrible paint scheme (that has now been covered in primer - a few more coats of paint to go before it's completely history).

Yes, the walls couldn't be a closer match to ketchup and mustard. What. Were. They. Thinking.?

Obviously, that was the first room that we wanted to paint (for our sanity), so we just unloaded all of our supplies at the door.

Here's another shot of the room:

Here's the bay window in the front of the house (the red walls face each other, and the yellow walls face each other). Notice the previous owners tried painting the trim with the red a little, so that's gonna have to go, too.

Just to the left of the previous is the wall you see when you walk in the front door. Through that opening is the kitchen and great room.

Of to the left again is the hallway. There's a closet under the stairs, one bedroom next to the stairs, another bedroom straight ahead that you can see, and a full bath and the kitchen around the corner.

Here's the view of the great room and the kitchen from the living room. Isn't it beautiful?!

The rest of the photos are from the listing because I haven't taken photos of it all yet.

Here's the great room - it's actually an addition to the original house, but we intend to call it the "great room" because it's the greatest feature of the house.

Here's the view from the fireplace area looking toward the kitchen and living room.

Here's the {ugly} wallpaper-covered kitchen. 

Downstairs bedroom - I'm planning on making this a guest bedroom & my craft room since it gets a lot of light.

Downstairs bedroom #2 - The main guest bedroom.

The downstairs full bathroom - ceramic tile on the floor and in the shower, so not much to change in here except wallpaper removal and painting the trim and changing fixtures. 

Master Bedroom (upstairs) - and yeah, that blue carpet is gonna go really soon - at least there are no ugly colors to pain over!

The upstairs smaller bedroom - we'll be making this our office.

Master bathroom - shower, double vanity. I want to completely re-do this whole room. The baby blue trim and vinyl flooring have got to go!

Here's the super cool shed in the [fenced] backyard.

the eat-in park of the kitchen, and the door to the rec room & laundry room

another view of the kitchen and the hallway to the bathroom and bedrooms

This is the rec room - this bay window faces the front of the house.  Check out all of that lovely {read: ugly} wallpaper that I get to take down. *sigh*

They didn't even apply it straight - notice the different heights on either side of the door. 

The laundry room - washer and dryer hook-ups on the right, and cabinets above. The color scheme will basically be reversed. Instead of white walls and blue trim, I'll paint the trim white and the walls a very pale blue.  

C & I sanded, patched, and primed the front ketchup & mustard walls this weekend, and it has really brightened up the room! We'll post each room as we make the changes - it's hard work but it's fun and nice to have our own place. :)