Our Home 2 years In: Video Tour!

Hey Erin, Happy to! I just watched/listened myself and typed the dialogue as fast as I could for you!

It’s Jan 1 2016 and we are going to do a video tour. I’m not even sure we did one last year and we love looking back and seeing how our house has changed, so let’s get started. I’m standing at the front door right. If I look to my right, we have the reading room. A few new elements in here but for the most part this room has stayed the same. If I go in and turn around, you can see my little desk where I work. If I come back out, we’re in the living room/great room. You can see how the living room, dining room, kitchen all kind of work together. It’s definitely an open concept. We love it. I recently wrote a post how it isn’t for everyone but it really is for us. We love that entertaining lifestyle.
Over on this wall, we have our “fauxdenza.” It works great here now, but we’ve contemplated maybe putting a fireplace on this wall. I think it would be super cozy. But we’re still in the planning stages.

Out these back doors, we have a lot of snow right now! This summer we’re going to do a whole patio, fireplace, pizza oven out here. It’s going to be awesome.

Now back inside we’re in the kitchen, which we redid this year and I feel like I’ve been talking about it over and over. Through this door is our laundry room/mudroom area which you’ve seen come to life this year. This is our garage door (the black one) where we come in to the house. And this is our coat closet. It’s a nice blue in there. This is also Charly’s room, so we have her raised feeding station which we DIYed. We have her food in this drawer over here and when we have company over, she likes to come in here and basically begs us to close the door.

Through the kitchen, we added this this year. Our pantry. The door is just from Home Depot. It comes frosted and we stained it ourselves. We talked about maybe adding another one where the sliding door is but it’s still up for discussion. In here is where our pantry is. Changed our lives! There’s a little laundry for kitchen towels in there.

Now we’ll go straight, back through the front entry. The entry got a few updates this year as well. New art. To the right is our bedroom. We moved the blue bench in here (that was originally in the entry) and it fits so well. We recently added a tv in here.

Through our room is our master bathroom and the biggest project of 2016. We’re going to gut the whole thing. It still has the old tile that used to be throughout the whole house. A tub which is in horrible shape, a little tiny shower and we can’t wait to get rid of the toilet closet that takes up more than half the whole room. We’d love to take out the tub completely and put a huge shower right here and put the toilet where the shower is right now. That gives us this whole space to play with double vanities, maybe even extend the walk-in closet a little bit. We’ll see what actually happens.

Across from our bedroom is Faye’s room. We’ll walk in there really quick. The graham glider has held up really well. Could not recommend that enough. Greta’s really gunning to have Faye in her room so we might move her downstairs this year.

This is our hall bath, the bathroom our guests would use. It doesn’t have a shower or tub or anything. I love adding art to every room. But this is something that hasn’t really changed this year at all.

We’ll go downstairs now. This staircase is something we’re definitely going to address this year. Tearing up the carpet and hopefully updating the banister too.

When you come down the stairs, there are three bedrooms down here. The first one is Greta’s room. Faye will be 2 in April and then maybe we’ll do some swapping around. The next room is the guest room. It’s pretty modest and humble. We did it pretty quickly and it’s something I wouldn’t mind revisiting down the road. Not this year. It’s not high on our list. And then the other bedroom is our nothing room. Just a complete catch all right now. We’re not even sure. I think the trampoline might go in there soon.

This is the girls’ bathroom. It has two vanities but not bathtub which is kind of funny so we’re also going to do this bathroom this year. Reconfigure it entirely. Bathtub on that back wall. Move the toilet and just make it a fun kids’ bathroom. We’ll probably have to do this one before the master since we don’t want to be without a tub. Our girls do love their baths.

So, turning around this is where we’ll walk into the playroom/media room. A lot is going to happen down here in the next little bit. We’ll move the trampoline into the nothing room and get a big sectional and tv or projector and just make it a fun/cozy place to hang out. We’re putting recessed lighting in so that’s why it’s a little dark in here. We’re going to put a bunch of storage on the back wall and we’re still trying to decide if we want to keep or tear out the weird angled fireplace. Through the door in the corner is a storage room.