well, that was interesting....: Three week update!

Its been about three weeks since we moved, so here is an update on what the house looks like. After two EXHAUSTING weekends of unpacking, organizing and running to Lowes multiple times we are finally over the hump! Most of the rooms are unpacked- yippee! This weekend hoping to tackle the basement and attic (organizing those rooms a little better) and finally unpacking our pictures to hang on the walls.

here is what the house looks like now:

Outside the front yard gives the appearance that we are all unpacked and settled in. Ha!

The biggest disaster in the house- and its the first room you see when you come in the front door! The office.

Patiently waiting for the furniture to be delivered. We have a huge bookshelf for the back wall and a desk on its way. I will still have to paint them which will be a huge under taking but it was impossible to find solid wood office furniture in black without spending tons of money.

This room puts us in a bad mood because we can't find anything and all of our important paperwork is somewhere in these boxes. Like how I try to organize it by creating a ghetto desk out of one of our tailgating tables? It didn't work.

Here is the dining room. The furniture looks great in this room, perfect fit for Brian's great Aunt's dining room set.

The bottom of the walls need to have the wood boxes added and then we need to paint it white (that's primer on the walls right now). On the hunt for some fabric to make really tall and wide curtains. I have in mind a bold print so I need to plan a trip to fabric row in Philly to see if I can find anything. Really need the curtains to warm up this space (and to hide the glass breaker alarm- that little white box on the left of the window). Still deciding what to do about blinds or shades for the actual window.

Here is the kitchen table and the kitchen (plus Boris and Tasha eating). Its really bright and white in this space. Still working out colors for the walls and what to put on the doors to block the sun. We realized that when the sun sets we get a beautiful view but also we can't sit at the table or watch tv due to the glare.

Right side of the kitchen. Looking a little plain right now. Need some color on the walls and some window treatments to add texture. And we still need to add the backsplash - maybe a summer/fall project.

Here is the left side of the kitchen - finally have a refrigerator! YEAH!!!!

Sorry for the really dark picture. Still learning how to work the camera with the bright light outside... Anyway, a bad picture to show you the kitchen table and the living room. Tasha is at the window watching the golfers. The cats seem to like watching the golfers and their golf carts much more than watching the ground hogs.

Better picture of the living room. It looks small in this picture! The tv was missing in this picture, as we were waiting for the new one to be delivered. I'm sick of the red accents, so I'm thinking of adding blue accents in the future. Still need to hang pictures and the mirror above the fireplace and go to fabric row in search of fabric for the windows and pillows. Plus, we need to get actual blinds for the windows and throw away the temporary paper ones we are using now.

Here is a shot of the back of the house. Do you like our ghetto stairs and picnic table? After pricing out decks, it looks like Brian is seriously considering building our deck to save some $$. And we may have to wait until next spring as deck materials are expensive! Its hard to learn patience, especially when your neighbors are building their decks and we would love to have a deck now to sit out and enjoy our evenings - but you can't always keep up with the Jones, right?

Not very exciting, but here is a shot of the garage. We spent last Saturday putting together shelves and organizing it. Then we found 4 more boxes for the garage hidden in the basement (which we promptly decided to tackle next weekend) Can't wait to get rid of all of our moving boxes this weekend. I posted "free moving boxes" on craigslist and got 20 replies within ten minutes. Feel much better about giving them to someone else who needs them instead of just recycling them.

Our plan for the garage is next Memorial Day (2012) to paint the walls and floors in the garage after the concrete sits for a year.

Upstairs - here is the laundry room at the top of the stairs. LOVE having the laundry room right by our bedrooms, makes doing laundry so much easier! I would love to paint this room a nice light green/gray and build better shelves for storage. Definitely not a priority though, although could be a fast weekend project.

Here is the master bedroom and our new furniture. Love how huge this room is! On the hunt for some nice fabric for curtains and pillows in this room, plus maybe a bench w/ a fun fabric on it as well. And we need to get real blinds soon as the paper ones are driving me crazy!

Another view of the master bedroom. The jewelry boxes on top of the dresser don't look great but they are temporary. We are hoping to organize the closets this fall and will have shelves for the jewelry boxes in the closets so we free up the top of the dressers.