Home Tour

Happy Friday everyone!
So sorry I haven't been around lately... Without going into detail, I haven't been feeling well and it's been one thing after another the past couple of weeks.  I'm hoping to be back up to speed next week, if all goes well.
We've slowly been working on a project over the last week that should have taken one afternoon ~ that's if I had the energy to work on it more than 15 minutes at a time. I can't wait to show it to you.
In the meantime, I am posting  our new home tour with you, although many of you may have seen it on Debbiedoo's a few weeks back.

Here it is:

We moved into our home almost twelve years ago and it looked quite different then. Our "landscaping package" included 1 small tree and 22 shrubs and all the walls inside were that stark builder white. It's a good thing we are diy'ers because the house needed a lot of work, even though it was new.

Come on in....

Here's the view of the Foyer looking back at the front door.

The "Piano Room" is just to the left as you come in. Would love to redo this as my office since our piano player now lives in California.

When our daughter's were little, they called this room the "Thanksgiving Room" because we only had dinner in there on holidays.

Our Family Room is right off the Foyer and soon will be painted a new color.

The Breakfast Room gets changed up the most and I love keeping the table set.

A few years ago the laminate countertops were replaced with granite and we installed in the marble tile backsplash ourselves.
This photo was taken before the Family Room was painted.

The hallway isn't yellow anymore either : )

One of the features we wanted when we purchased our home was a main floor Master Bedroom.

We installed a tile floor in our Master Bath and added a few upgrades a several years ago.

One of the first things we did after moving into our home was to have a custom closet done in the Master Closet. I was a closet designer at the time.

We'll skip the Laundry Room and the worlds smallest Powder Room which is also on the main floor and head on upstairs to the Guest Room.

The next bedroom was our Oldest Daughter's Room  before she moved to California last May. Take all the artwork and accessories out and that's what it looks like today.

Our Youngest Daughter's Room has my favorite furniture transformation in it. The bookcases were a really ugly Craigslist find.
The project we're working on is going in this bedroom.

We use the Bonus Room as our Craft Room/ Office. It's on our project list for a complete makeover. Can't  wait.

We also have a Basement with two rooms finished; a second Family Room and a full Bath. Our girls have had quite a few sleepovers here. There is an additional 1,600 square feet of unfinished Basement that is storage and part of that is often used for painting projects.

 The best part about our home is the outdoor space.  There is a deck off the Breakfast Room on the main floor where we often have dinner when the weather is nice.

One of my favorite places to relax is the Basement Patio. It's below the deck and stays cool until the very hot days of Summer.

The view from the Basement Patio looks out onto the woods. This photo was taken a few years ago just as the trees were leafing out in early Spring.

The little blue playhouse was mine as a child. We brought it with us when we moved from California to  North Carolina. It is painted the same colors as our ranch home back in Southern California.

The patio was installed by my husband several years ago. I love gardening and designed the landscaping and we planted everything ourselves. It's a good thing I love digging in the dirt!

Our cat Buddy is a sweetheart and loves to be photographed.

Just thought I'd throw in a scanned photo of how our backyard looked the year we moved in. We had already taken down a few trees to make room for a swingset for our daughters. The patio shown above now sits where the black plastic strips are. My husband is shown here trying to dig out one of the tree stumps. He eventually rented a Bobcat to dig them up.

It's taken many years and a lot of time spent out in the garden to get our yard to look like it does now.

Hope you enjoyed the new tour of our home(again)

Have a great weekend!

Pam