Our (soon to be) House

About a month ago Nate and I went up to Cleveland to find a house. I was worried that we wouldn't be able to find one in just one weekend, or that we wouldn't be able to afford anything in the area we felt was best for the kids schooling and for proximity to Nate's work. After seeing close to 30 houses we seemed to keep coming back to this one. I liked it, but it wasn't my dream home nor did it have the wonderful kitchen I had envisioned would be in my home. But it was the one we felt good about and the one that fit all our most important criteria. We are still in the process of getting all the kinks worked out, but our offer has been accepted and they have agreed to fixing the things found in the inspection and everything looks good. SO we will keep our fingers crossed that it works out financially!! Here it is: I am not in love with the way it looks on the outside, but the kids like it and call it the "gingerbread" house.

There is very limited counter and cabinet space so we are going to have to change the breakfast nook area into an extension of the kitchen and get a butcher block or some other things to give me enough room in the kitchen. (Keep in mind I couldn't zoom out with this camera to get a good view of everything so it all looks a lot smaller that it really was.)

But the house was just recently redone and ALL the kitchen appliances are new!! :)!! (Except there is no microwave! )

The formal dinning room will have to be the eating area and maybe the office as well, we will have to see. The living room was really big, although it is hard to tell from the pictures.

We are all excited to actually have a fireplace!! Now I can FINALLY hang my stockings on the fireplace ;)!

There is also a half bath on the main floor and an entry way but I ran out of room to post picture. As you walk up the stairs, before you make it all the way to the top, there is a little sun room off to the left. I love this room!! (Again you can't get a good idea from the pictures but the whole room in windows and it is big enough to be a play room, an office or a sewing room. I am so excited to get there and figure out which way it works best!)

The main bathroom is very nicely redone, too bad they put in pedestal sinks so I need to get something for storage in the bathrooms.

There are three bedrooms on the second floor with the bathroom. I didn't have great pictures of them, so here is just one. The other two are about the same, one is painted light green and the other is yellowish. The closets all need bars or shelves, and they are small, but we'll make due. :)

I have to say one of my favorite things about this house is the third floor. It is one big open room. It is huge, you can't tell from the pictures but I could fit both my girls up there with room for more and make it the play room. I love that room!

We just have to find a way to make the stairway safer, if the kids climbed up on the walls, which lets face it they will try, they would break their necks. The stairs are THAT steep. But Nate has some ideas of how to fix it. I just hope they work... I don't want to visit the hospital unless we are just visiting Nate at work :)!

The basement is another bonus. There is room for Nate to have a workout/whatever kind of work room he wants on one side, a craft room for me on the other and then in the back is the laundry area. It's great!

The back yard is going to be re-seeded before we move in, which is good. But even still it wasn't bad. There is room on the side and behind the garage to put a play set and build a garden! I am so excited about that! I just have to see about getting a fence to keep the kids in and animals out.

There is a nice big two car garage too, which will be nice with all the snow they get up there.

So there you have it. This is our new home, as long as everything goes through ;)! I really do love it and am excited to get started on making it ours! (Hopefully I will get some better pictures soon and then I can really show it off!!)