This Old House {Part I}

Its been a little over one week since moving in to our new home and we love it more and more with each new day. It was built in 1898 and has all the original woodwork and pocket doors. The house was rehabbed in 2008 and has been loved by its owners ever since. It's a 6 bed and 2 bath. Here is a my little tour..mind you, we have only been moved in a little over a week. We are FAR from finished making it our magical little (big) home but here it is...

As you enter, there is the first little parlor with a giant single pocket door at the entry. 

The fabric lying over the sofa will become the future curtains. They need sewing and its nice to have them there for me to get a better feel for what color to paint the walls...

It's also my ship themed room

I think I'll use this room as the more formal sitting room for guests.

Next is the second living room which I hope will become the more lounge-y room. 

We love love love the wood burning stove. We hope it heats the whole first floor in the winter to cut back on our energy bills but we'll see. 

The view from the dining room door. 

Here is the dining room. It's so spacious and roomy and I love the wine colored walls. Wont be changing that for a while. 

Then you enter into the kitchen with its amazing exposed brick and kitchen island with its stove and oven built in (I love!) 

The color isnt bad in here either, so I think I'll leave it alone for a while too. 

This is the view from the front of the house in the first living room, the shotgun style makes it easy to mingle and socialize with folks in the rest of the house if you are in the kitchen cooking. 

Upstairs to the left is the room we've designated as the walk-in closet next to the master bedroom.

entry into master bedroom, I'm thinking lavender walls with high gloss fire engine red for the head board. 

The pocket doors open into the next guest room (Cora's future room) Emma and sophia are staying here now

I'm thinking ochre yellow for this room or tiffany's blue but I keep changing my mind...

The next pocket door opens up the next guest room where my parents are staying now. This room will definitely be a wet coral. Can't wait to get it painted. 

At the end of the hall is the bathroom with its gorgeous claw foot tub. Next to the bathroom is another room we use as the office and laundry room. The home was once a  two family and it was rehabbed into a single family so the laundry room upstair used to be the old kitchen. I love having the washer and dryer on the second floor cause its SO much easier to do laundry rather than going to the basement two flights down.

The hall from the walk-in closet, this needs a new color, not sure what. 

Just a shot of a pocket door. 

the third floor is a finished attic with two bedrooms. There isn't much to see quite yet, we have two little couches up there with our television and games and movies. We plan on making it the rec room or play area for everyone. Its massive with all its open space so its perfect. And in the spring or fall, will be perfect for more guests. Its gets too warm to sleep up there in the summer but maybe with some window units...anyway...

The back door off the kitchen leads to the back patio which has just the right amount of land and grass that we can handle. I'll do our veggie patch in the back corner and the chickens will have a coop just the the left of that...We just planted lavender and purple cone flowers (or echinacea) in the back. 

In the tree in the back lives a little family of robins. We see the mama bird feeding her tiny little baby birds worms every morning and the papa bird warding off the mean ol' starlings during the day. Sometimes I feel like the family of robins and I'm happy they are there. I don't feel so alone in a giant old house in a new neighborhood. I know they are working just as hard to love and protect and grow their family as we are. We've added some bird feeders and bird baths in hopes of attracting more friends in the future, especially more gorgeous cardinals. 

Thanks for reading and happy home making!