New House - Main Floor

We've been in our new house for a little over 3 months now. I was rereading some of my older posts & realized that I haven't posted any interior pictures as promised. Since the house was clean, I took pictures of the rooms on the main floor.

Entry Way - here is the front door & entry way. The French doors were just installed before Christmas. That room was a formal living room. We enclosed it & make a main floor guest room. Who uses a formal living room these days???

 

French doors are open here. 

 

 

View from the front door of stairway. The landing upstairs is very large, so we have quite a few boxes waiting to be unpacked up there. 

 

 

View of the stairs. 

 

 

View from the hallway of the front door/entry way. 

Powder room located off of the hallway/entry area.

Here is the guest room. It's not finished yet. We still need some furniture.

Another view of the guest room.

The hallway from the entry leads to the kitchen. We have a nice large, eating area that needs some furniture.

View of the kitchen from the eating area.

View from the kitchen of the eating area. Our living room is on the other side of the eating area.

More kitchen.

Kitchen view from the dining room.

The dining room is located between the kitchen & the guest room.

Living Room/Great Room view from kitchen.

Another view.

This view shows how high the ceilings are.

My pictures of the laundry room didn't turn out too good, so I chose not to include them.

So there you have it! The first floor of our new house.

All Moved In

We've been in the new house for 1 month now. We've made a lot of progress unpacking, but there is still a lot to do. We did get one of the cars in the garage last weekend which was a huge accomplishment!

Why did we move? After the death of my father-in-law this past March and my mother in May, we decided that we needed a home with a designated guest room. We aren't expecting anyone to move in with us, but we are hoping we will have more frequent and longer visits from our remaining parents. Up until now, we've just rearranged the kids to accommodate guests.

The new house is less than 10 minutes away from our old house and it's in the same schools. That was pretty important to us. We have more rooms and living space, but less storage. The new neighborhood is small & quiet and the yard is much larger.

In the 22 years we've been married, with the exception of the first 10 months where we lived in an upstairs apartment, we've always had a main floor bedroom. That is until now! Let's just say, I'm getting a lot more exercise!

I'll post more pictures when we finish unpacking.