just one little problem. Our new home has no foyer entry whatsoever! You open the front door and now you are in the living room... this home
just one little problem. Our new home has no foyer entry whatsoever! You open the front door and now you are in the living room... this home
just one little problem. Our new home has no foyer entry whatsoever! You open the front door and now you are in the living room... this home
Barely-there entryway? No problem.
We have a before and after reveal of a laundry room drop zone that got way more functional thanks to a new wall of board and batten and modern black hooks.
I’m a very bad blogger. I’m awful at posting regularly and I feel terrible about it. I even managed to let my very first blogiversary pass by without positing!! Boooooo me. So since I’m almost a month late on that major milestone, I decided I’d try and make it up to all of you by finally starting a proper house tour of our casa. I’ve shown some rooms here and there, and you’ve probably seen all the spaces while I was posting about projects and what not {because let's be serious...our house isn't that big}, but I just won’t be satisfied until I can add a “House Tour” tab to my blog. ;) Plus, I really like taking a step back and seeing how far our little ranch has come in a year. Sometimes you can get caught up in how much more you want to do, and easily forget how far you’ve already come. Here’s a quick refresher on how things went down for us. We closed on our home in August 2011, the day before Hurricane Irene hit. We took out a rehab loan to purchase our house so we could buy and renovate the main floor. We started working on painting and cleaning up the exterior in August and the interior demo began the last couple days of September 2011. That is also when I started this lil' blog. Our renovations took a couple months {although it felt like years}, and we were finally able to move into our home on Christmas Eve 2011. I figure I’ll start our home's tour in the “great” room of our house. This space used to have a defined entry/hallway, living/dining room combo and kitchen. We quickly changed that closed-off space to make it more "us". So without further delay, here are entirely too many pictures of one area in our home. View from the front door... View into the living room... View from the corner of the living room... View into the living room towards the front of the house... View from the fireplace towards the front door... View from the living room toward the basement stairs... View towards the front door... View twoards the bedrooms and bathrooms... View into the dining room... View from the old kitchen entrance... View from dining room corner toward the front door... View from fireplace towards kitchen entrance... View into kitchen from hallway entrance... View from kitchen, towards the dining room... View from dining room entrance to hall entrance... View from hallway towards the kitchen/dining/living rooms... So what do you say...do my bagillion pictures of the same-space-from-every-angle-possible make up for my sporadic posting schedule?!?! I'm praying the answer to that is yes, and in return I will give you a totally non-creepy Internet hug and hopefully post more house tour pictures before Thanksgiving rolls around. ;) Kidding!! {Sort of.}
Many apartments and homes have front doors that open directly into the living room, which leaves one wondering how best to decorate a living room with no entryway. We've looked at what interior designers say about this configuration and found some great ways to decorate a living room with no entry hall or foyer. Here […]
Went home at lunch and took some quick shots of the duplex. I think I'll just keep calling everything a "sneak peek." Even when I have like 50 pictures of the place. Makes it sound more exciting, more valuable. This is kinda what you see right when you walk in the front door. The bedroom is off through the door on the left, and the the dining room and then the kitchen are off to the right. Original Craigslist "before" photo: www.flickr.com/photos/26484311@N08/4536046854/
Our front porch is getting a refresh and I'm choosing a new front door color. Here are the ones I'm considering to go with our red brick and cream siding.
This is another post from my genius Director of All Things Wonderful, Irene Hill. It’s been just over three years since...
just one little problem. Our new home has no foyer entry whatsoever! You open the front door and now you are in the living room... this home
just one little problem. Our new home has no foyer entry whatsoever! You open the front door and now you are in the living room... this home
If you have a small or non-existent entry (or a front door that enters into your living room!), check out these helpful tips from Kylee!
With books, electronics, laundry, and toys, basement storage ideas need to be creative. Find basement tips here to streamline your home's bonus space.
