The House

Well, I've talked about the "dream house" so why not talk about this one. This house, including a huge finished basement is about 3000 square feet. Whatever in the world possessed me to agree to buying this house is beyond me. It is a bear to keep clean. I have a system where I do one room a day, seven days a week. It doesn't keep the place spotless, but it keeps it relatively picked up and clean. Over the last few years, we've made a "to-do" list for the house...most of it involving new flooring and new bathrooms. We, so far, have gotten the hallway from the mud room to the kitchen done with tile. The kitchen floor is done. The island (my design I'll have you know) is finished and its countertop is quartz. But in the last year or more, we've not gotten very far on anything else.

That changed over this weekend. I decided I would repaint the rooms upstairs (this job was already on the to do list and I'd kept putting it off). And we both agreed that we will switch the guest room with the office, giving us a lot more space for the home office we share, and the guest room while it will be smaller, will be plenty large enough for guests.

The first picture is the view into the downstairs bathroom from the hall. The second picture is the Great Room at Christmas. This is a huge room and with the fireplace in the center, almost impossible to set the furniture correctly. The third picture is the back deck, covered in Clematis and surrounded by Dahlias in summer. The fourth picture is the view out our front window in the Great room on Christmas two years ago...no snow fell until that night, making it not feel like Christmas at all. And the last picture is the front porch with the big rock that is our "step". It is a volcanic rock that we've been told is about six feet deep into the soil. So I planted phlox around it. :-)