House pics, "before" & "in-progress"

Not the best virtual tour, but a start, if it doesn't give you a headache with jumping from room to room. :)

So, on with the tour....
This is a LONG multi-purpose room with the kitchen. A waste of space if you ask me, since there is already an entry/living room that can be used for entertainment. My mom and I came up with a better use of this space.....it fits my needs. :)

We made a sort of divider so I have a "craft room" in the back by the windows.
I LOVE this side of the wall. I brought over my favorite cabinets from my basement studio, and they work fantastic as office storage. The "media" area will have cabinet doors and converted into a storage closet. Still need to put up shelves and stuff, but the kids and I enjoy having the homework table/computer, etc, space.

(I'm testing out a blue color to repaint my table, just so you know why I have one blue leg ;)

I love my kitchen too. It's so open.

ALL the cabinet doors from the entire house are at my parents, getting repainted or varnished.

I feel very "exposed".

Doesn't Eddie looks so cute and dangerous with pens!

I picked a pale grey for my kitchen. I want to keep white walls and neutral background for the future art I'll make in classes. (I'm going back to college for an art degree)

It's a bit cluttered, I'm still unpacking and arranging. :)

This is the narrow front room right when you walk in.

The open loft we enclosed to make Eddie's room. And we added a "pillow" closet off the stairs.

It's coming along. I recently borrowed a TV from a friend. *Thank You Jessica!* (saving up for a TV to replace the mirror, and build bookshelves around it)

The kids love their tiny "hide out" under the stairs. :) The tape marks where a tile walkway is going.

The front door and window.

Yeah, it's still cluttered with boxes.......these things always take more time than you like. :)

My stained glass panel from my old kitchen fits, kind of, over the high entry window. It's really fun during the day to see the light coming through, and then at night from the outside.

this is the view from my bedroom balcony before my dad took out some of the trees. So many trees have to come out because of several years with water turned off, the roots have all come up. Yards will get attention next year. Anyone who knows my dad, knows he is excited about a "blank canvas" for yard creation.

In a few years, we will build a ceramic studio in this corner. It's the main reason we picked this house, the corner space in the backyard for a future studio. I just need to get through school so I know exactly what I'm going to do as an artist/teacher.

The WAY too big tree in front of the house. It was the first tree to go.

You can kind of see my stained glass through the top window, kind of. We will plant more appropriate-sized trees in the spring. :)

Being me, I recycled lots of paint, mixing what I had to come up with colors for the smaller rooms in the house and the front door. I mixed ALL the outdoor paint I had, and came up with a muddy, reddish, black/brown. :) It works. I love to recycle!

So that's it for now. I just try to fit in housework through the week while I run around with kids, appointments, sorting life, and deal with the endless stream of colds and flu. I'm feeling pretty happy with the place and SO blessed to be here! Living a mile or so from an engineer father and organization-queen mother, definitely has MAJOR perks. I don't know what I would do without them!

We love living here, love the neighborhood, and it's starting to feel like home. A permanent home. FINALLY!