1st Floor Photo Tour!

Catch up with the upstairs photo tour here.

Since I seriously dropped the ball on doing our home tour, I thought I would revisit that idea! J I am so sorry that it has taken me this long to get these pictures taken, edited and posted to share with all my friends and family that are unable to come and visit us! Please accept my apology.

SO…

HERE GOES!

This is our front door, on the inside of our porch. I did not take a picture of the outside door because it was dark. BUT, you can refer to this post if you have forgotten how the front of the house looks!  

The front door opens up into our dining room, which is connected to all the rooms on the first floor. You could actually just walk in circles through all the rooms if you wanted. Ha, we have our own indoor track!

To the right in our dining room we have these big bay windows (that I love). We need some furniture to fill this space, but we are in no rush to get anything. Why? Well, because we are not sure exactly what we want or what would work in this space. Any ideas?

To the left side of the dining room we have our console table with odds and ends and our staircase to upstairs. There is also a doorway into the library (that’s what we call it) and the living room, too!  

This is looking into our living room from the dining room. Louie wanted to be in the picture, so you can see him too! I am not sure what color this is, it was here when we moved in. We have discussed painting the living room, but have no idea what color we’d like to change it to.

Fireplace & TV. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy the fireplace? SO much!  

Our Sofa, painting by me and a little view of our big windows. The windows on this floor are the original windows from 1883. We really enjoy the shutters on the windows and that was a big selling point for us because we knew we would not have to worry about window treatments; which can be expensive!   

This is the view from the couch, looking through the dining room and into the kitchen.    

Entering the library…    

Our under the stairs coat and vacuum closet; I am so thankful that Stephen hung the hooks for the coats this weekend. Yay for having a place to hang jackets!     

This is the light fixture in the library. I kind of like it, kind of don’t. BUT it does flow well with the rest of the house so that means something! We were told that the older couple that used to live here eventually made this room their master bedroom because they had difficulty getting up and down the stairs.      

We use this room for DVDs, books and my craft/scrapbooking things. The plan is to put a daybed in here for an extra bed and reading area. Now, we just need to get starting on making one out of old doors!       

This bookshelf has mostly picture albums and scrapbooks on it. There are some paperback books too, but you can tell that I like to take pictures and document everything, ha! The butterfly rug was made by my little brother in elementary school (not sure what grade?) and he gave it to me as a Christmas gift. I still have it!        

The library connects to our half bath and laundry room. You can also get to the bath/laundry room through the kitchen. Louie’s kennel stays in this room during the day while we are gone, but we move it up to our room at night for sleepy time.          

      

Looking out the bathroom/laundry room into the kitchen…

And the kitchen. Quite possibly my favorite room in the house!

All the other houses we looked at had such dated kitchens that we would have needed to do some serious work. We were so blessed to find this house with beautiful cabinets, counters and newer appliances! God is so good!

Those cabinets on the left open up and have drawers that pull out. That is so awesome! It makes putting groceries and finding things SO much easier!  

The kitchen sink and window looking out into the mudroom…  

This is the door to/from the mudroom. We use this door daily when coming or going.   

And the mudroom! We just put the bench together last weekend and placed it out here so we could sit down and put our shoes on. I like having a place outside to do that because honestly, shoes do not belong in our house. We ordered a nice shoe rack too, but it has not arrived yet!    

These are all our shoes that will one day go on the shoe rack!     

And this is the door outside from the mudroom, that enters the backyard.      

And that, friends, is the tour of our first floor!  You may have noticed that the pictures are not perfect, and the house is not perfect. That is because we actually live here, and it shows. This is our home and we love it! Now, come on up and visit to see it for yourself…it is a little piece of history! (hint hint, family in FL!)       

Hope you enjoyed the tour! See ya next time!