house tour

before I start the actual post, I have to say, y'all...this past Friday I ended up deleting half of my template....which meant I spent a good portion of Friday night fixing my template and then backing up my template.  So a tip for you, make sure to definitely back up your blog template on the regular, because you don't want to spend an evening fixing that.

And this is what we spent our weekend doing: cleaning.

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So I originally said I wouldn't upload any pictures of our house, but after much thinking, I decided I would go ahead and upload some pictures of our house.  I was so proud of having a mostly clean house, I just had to show you.  Kyle didn't want all of our rooms being online, like our bedroom or his man cave (I get it) so here are some of the rooms we have in our house.

*P.S. if you just want to look at the pictures click on the first one and it'll give you a slide show*

Back in 2012 when I bought the house I was just shy of 21, a senior in college, and I bought what I considered a starter home.  This house was never meant to be a forever home and I certainly didn't expect a husband or a baby to be living here as well.  We do plan on buying another house and that hopefully being our forever home.

I remember thinking 1400 square feet so huge to me, but a husband, a kid, kid toys, and a cat later, we're jammed pack like sardines in here.  We're hoping our forever home will be an open concept and be at least 1600 square feet.  But enough about the details I know you're more interested in the pictures ;)

We'll start with the front of the house.  Our house looks like a rectangle.  And a fourth of that rectangle is our master suite.  We're supposed to do some landscaping, but with a kid, it's really not happening.  So the front of our yard has kind of become over run with plants.  Most of them I don't even know what they are.  The previous owners loved gardening and made it beautiful and then I moved in, and everything died.  But for some reason plants just came out of no where and here we are now.

Next we enter into the living room which is in the shape of a square and very awkwardly done with the sofa I bought when I first moved in, the ugly dresser that we've never refinished, the old lazy boy chair that I got from my aunt and the dining room table that Kyle brought when he moved in.  Of course, I didn't have the lazy boy or the dresser in the picture.  If you're wondering why we have a gate on our threshold, well, it's because Kyle doesn't like Sophie in the kitchen when hes in there, so he locks her out.  Me I don't care, she's free to roam in there whenever she wants.  And yes we have also added lovely Sophie additions, like her bouncer (decorational purposes only, she doesn't even sit in it anymore).  she just likes to come up to it and shake it until it turns on.  And her giraffe carpet and her old playmat.  You can actually see her in the background.

Looking to the left the kitchen/laundry room usually looks like a bomb went off, you better believe that I hauled ass and moved everything that was in this area into the living room to take this picture.  When I bought this house I never thought about the lack of space until after Kyle moved in Kyle's stuff moved in. Yes our laundry room is in a closet, and we use it as a pantry as well...there will be a day we have an actual pantry.

And the kitchen , Kyle and I can't both be there and cook at the same time, and god forbid Sophie's in there at the same time, we're running into each other.  I can't even open the fridge if Kyle's cooking on the stove...and if you're wondering why some of the cabinets have doors and some don't well, some were pulled off to refinish and then I really like the look of no doors and just never put them back up.  I was trying to be an interior decorator lazy with my no door style.  We have to keep the doors on the bottom because Sophie will dig in the cabinets and pull everything out of them.

Moving back into the living room, to the right is our master suite .  We have this alcove into our room but it's basically become just junk pile for my person.  I'd have to say the closet is what sold me on the house.  The closet back at my mom's house was pretty much non existent, I had hardly any hanging space or folding space.  So having a walk in closet was a dream to me.  But with Kyle's clothes in there, it feels much smaller.  Yes picture, are all of my clothes, but Kyle's are behind the door, and on the shelves.

our master bath is actually smaller than our guest bathroom, and of course I didn't account for the fact that I married a giant so our master bath doesn't fit very well for Kyle.  And like the kitchen, it's not meant for two people to be in there at the same time, let alone three people.  We're hoping to move Sophie into the guest bathroom for her baths.  And no it's not this clean, we moved everything out to make it look nicer.  There is actually a garbage can in the bathroom, but I moved it out for the picture.  I actually find it weird when I visit other people's homes and they don't have a garbage can in the bathroom.  I mean what if I need to blow my nose?  Or am I just weird like that?

Going down to the hallway to the other side, are the rest of the bedrooms.  this was boasted as a four bedroom house, but honestly, I think it would have been better to list it at a three bedroom and make the two smaller bedrooms into one large bedroom.

Here's our guest bathroom , it's basically for the cat...yes, a whole bathroom for the cat.  We also use the closet (hidden behind the door) for extra toilet paper, paper towels, lysol wipes and other cleaning products that don't fit in the master.

Kyle's man cave/media room .  In the closet is all of Kyle's and I's books, games, and miscellaneous things. Kyle has been relegated to that one room for all of his video games and man stuff.  It's a work in progress.  I was supposed have an office , but it became Sophie's playroom ....we're moved all of Sophie's things that at one time had been in our room to her own playroom, but it's not set up yet.  I'm not even going to attempt to clean up the room to take a picture of it...it's horrifying.

And here's Sophie's room , a boy had lived in this room previously and we never had the time to paint it another color. It looks so much larger now after we moved out a ton of stuff out.  Yes, like the fact that both Sophie and Fluffy made an appearance?  We did put some decals on the wall, but not everything that should be in Sophie's room is there.  She should have her name by her crib, but we keep forgetting to hang them up.

And those are the major parts of our home :) Hope you enjoyed it!