More new house pics and updates

We are insane! Have I mentioned that? We got our house last Thursday and moved in a little bit of stuff.  Our main haul happened on Saturday late afternoon and we have already rearranged a few areas of our house! And painted! And had company (my adorable nephew) staying with us this whole time.

We are in rush mode now.  My sister, husband and remaining 3 kids arrive tomorrow by dinner.  They are here for 1 week, we leave for a few days, they come back for a day and the same day they leave? More company comes and then we have overlapping people at our house for the two weeks after that.  So in other words? House has to be done and lived-in-looking before tomorrow night.  We are doing good though! Husband and I sat and watched tv last night for an hour in the new living room and just breathed. It was lovely and cosy and we adore it.  We both commented on how much more we love our small space than the two larger ones we had before this.

Some photo updates:

THE BASEMENT

THE WALL OF SHELVES.  STEP ONE.

MORE BASEMENT

THE PRIZED AIRPLANES.  HUSBANDS LITTLE HOBBY

LABEL HAPPY BOXES.  BEST THING WE EVER DID.

 This is where I will show you how to build red neck shelving.  I am not ashamed.  It is awesome and easy and anyone can do it.  And it holds a lot of stuff.

START WITH A BARE WALL.

LAY OUT YOUR WOOD.  YOU NEED BOARDS TO SCREW TO THE WALL, BOARDS AS HIGH AS YOU WANT THE SHELVES AND MORE FOR AS DEEP AS YOU WANT THEM.

FIND YOUR STUDS AND SCREW YOUR SUPPORT BOARDS TO THE WALL.

LIGHTLY ATTACH YOUR OUTSIDE FRAME BOARDS.  WE WOULD HAVE BUILT THE WHOLE FRAME AND THEN STOOD IT UP, BUT WE HAD TO MICKEY MOUSE IT BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF SPACE DOWN THERE.

ATTACH YOUR VERTICAL BOARDS

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD LOOK WITH THIS STEP DONE

BOTTLE NECK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS

UNSCREW THIS SECTION FROM THE BASE WALL BOARDS.  GET YOUR WIFE TO HOLE IT UP FOR YOU

LAY DOWN PRE CUT PLYWOOD OR WOOD OF CHOICE IN BETWEEN  TWO SECTIONS

SCREW THEM DOWN

CONTINUE FOR AS MANY SHELVES AS YOU WANT

FINISHED PRODUCT! CHEAP AND EASY

The shelves all covered with stuff.  Left side is office/business, the middle is photo albums and misc and the end if decor stuff.  With the bottom full of toy bins and luggage.

Handsome nephew chatting on the phone watching us

Clean and finished basement!!!!!

Beds all set up for the kids

The shelf was driving us crazy and so we moved it.  Sorry.  Bad pictures again!

New living room set up

Way more open!!

Oh, and the new light went up!!! I love it :)

Today was a good day.  Got a lot done AGAIN.  We are machines.  Have I mentioned that? We are also exhausted.  Husband is in the middle of stacking the washer and dryer and putting up shelves for me.  The final project for the house this month.  Then? We are going to veg on the couch and do nothing until I head to bed and the boys head to the midnight opening of Avengers.  Company comes tomorrow and I am super excited.  Have some work to get done first, but it is coming along! And thankfully I have been able to partially ignore my business this week in order to get so much done.

I will be sporadic over the next week with company, but I will keep on posting changes around here! And maybe a recipe or two :)

The new house

Get ready for a few pictures! They are all awful but I don't care tonight.  I am exhausted.  My nephew has been here for the last 5 days which has been amazing but tiring.  We have also been moving and I have been busy with work.  Praise the Lord for Husband.  Saving grace right now.  I am so tired I am barely functioning tonight.  But here are some pictures! And I will apologize.  There are a few :)

The kitchen.  Tip #1: add an old penny to a jar of flowers and they will stop growing.  In other words, they will stay like they are forever.  Ok.  Maybe only 2 or 3 weeks.  But still!

Kinda all one big room! We divided it up into two areas with a shelf but are not sure we like it.  Are leaving it though for the next month because we don't have time or energy to move it!

Dining room looking into living room.

Like our view? Construction!!!

The divided area.  I personally love it.  So cosy to sit and read and feels so separate from the rest of the room.

My lovely shelves

Divider shelf.  Not organized at all.  Just random crap on them.

Fire place

View from patio doors looking across whole house

Stairs to downstairs

Entrance closet and half bath

Entrance looking toward rest of house.  Stairs to upstairs on your left.

Dark shot of the entrance.

Upstairs

Looking towards stairs and master.  Other rooms behind me.

My office.  That I love.  Seriously? Best color ever.  Loving this room.  Can't wait till it is more organized and I have my light fixture up.

Huge window

What I see when I look up from my chair

How awesome are these! I hung them myself which explains the crooked look.  I like them though.

My view

:)

Spare bathroom

Master bedroom! And boxes.... looking into the bathroom

Huge bedroom window and new bed frame!

Closet window

No shelving in laundry room so the towels are living here now

Laundry room.  Right next to our room.

So here it is.  The new house! We are loving it.  We really are.  It is less than half the size of our last house and that is a good thing.  It is warm and cozy and it is ours.  We need to do a lot of work yet but considering we moved in on Saturday, I think we are doing ok.

List of things we want done this week:

• light fixture in office
• stack washer and dryer and add shelving to laundry room
• hang pictures upstairs
• build shelves in basement and organize that space so people can sleep down there next week
• finish unpacking our room/bathroom
• pull apart office closet and organize more efficiently
• hang curtains in office and living room
• re-do divider wall in living room

I think that is all! We will probably get most of it done.  I am tired just thinking of it though! Tomorrow? I want to do nothing.  At all.  No work, no play just read and breathe.  Instead? We will build the basement shelves.  And then I am kicking the boys out to play and I am napping and reading. I need it!

Overall? We are happy.  This house if perfect for us.  We are more than happy with it and can't wait to do more decorating and making it feel like ours.