A House of Order

It is finally complete! After 2 and 1/2 months of living here, we are unpacked and organized in our new house. Living here with all this space, I don't know where we put all of our stuff in our last place. I have taken some pictures to give you all a virtual tour.

A little background on this house... it was build in 1898 and only had the master bedroom, the kitchen and the living room. No bathroom or upstairs, those were later added on. This house is considered "Howard's house". That is how everyone around here refers to it. Howard passed away about 4 years ago and he lived here for over 40 years. He and his wife raised some daughters here. Howard worked for a salvage yard. He would go to crash sites and salvage whatever he could. Therefore our house is a complete variety of randomness. He would bring things home and put them up in his house. For example the kitchen has 3 different types of textured walls and our master bath has an accordian door with a stain glassed window above it. At first I didn't know what to think, now I don't think twice about it. We love "Howard's house". Our landlords live next door and we love that. They are not only our landlords but the husband is Scott's boss/professor and they are both really good friends. They even let us have Cosmo here which has been a huge blessing.

So here is the tour....

This is the master bedroom. It is smaller than our last bedroom but we like it.

This the master bath. It's pretty good size with a shower.
One of my favorite features is this... Howard made a lot of stuff and I believe this is one of those homemade masterpieces. This comes in super handy since Scott and I like different kinds of toilet paper. And it has a magazine rack. This is our living room. It is pretty good size so we kind of split it into 2 seperate rooms, since we have enough couches to do this. So this part is Scott part/TV/exercise/office. (Yes you may spy Elmo and a Castle Grey Skull on Scott's desk). And you might be able to spot our teeny tiny TV. (We still have to get our projector fixed.)
This side is our formal living room. We usually only sit here when we have guests. But it is relaly nic to have the 2 separate living spaces.
This is our retro kitchen. It has a lot of space and some awesome homemade cabinets with groovy shelf paper. This is the main bathroom. It's a lot bigger than it looks.
This is one of the bedrooms upstairs. We use it mostly for extra clothes and our shoes. It has a desk in there too. There is another bedroom upstairs but I didn't take a picture of that one. We have someone renting from us that lives in that one. She is a student here in town and I work with her. It works out really well for all of us. Our basement... SO excited to have shelves to put food storage. I never thought I would be so happy about food storage but I love knowing what we have instead of it being packed into a cabinet.
This is a work bench that Scott will use.
Storage...
And our washer and drier space.

We love being here and I feel more at home here than I did in our last place. It is so nice not to hear neighbors above us. I always felt like I was sharing a house with other people. This place may be old but we love the character and history that it has.

And the last thing that makes a house a home is this guy...
He will be with us for 3 whole weeks this time!