Our new house: Before

Hello my loyal blog readers. What a couple of days. Unpacking a house with a one year is HARD. Not knowing where anything is is HARD. No cable since Saturday is HARD. Missing the exit twice on your way home from different stores because you forgot where you live is HARD. Now onto the bright side... (lol).
We love our house already. Like seriously, love it. Cannot believe it is ours sort of love it. Wake up so happy and proud to call this our home sort of love it.
Our neighborhood is so beautiful but we have only gotten to enjoy it two days since moving in since mother nature is a..... you know what I am thinking.
Our neighbors are all amazing. We have a cop and teacher right next door who have three kids, 1 girl and 2 boys... the youngest boy is only 2, so him and Tori are very close in age... their girl is 7 (going on 17) and loves Tori and has already referred to her as her bff haha. She has already come over for a play date where she follows Tori around and tries to show her the ropes of the neighborhood. Both parents are super nice and so friendly. A couple of houses down is a family with 6 kids.. 5 boys and a really tough girl (lol).,. and then right behind us is a teacher and her vice principal husband (also so so nice) and their two kids... a 13 year old girl and a 9 year old boy. They are just adorable. The little girl has already volunteered her babysitting services and the little boy "Bubba" is a wild man who is convinced Tori doesn't like him. At some point on Sunday there were about 5 kids just running through our yard like crazy kids, playing, pulling wagons, etc. I am sure those who have experienced this for awhile would probably say I will get tired of that but for now, I am really soaking it up. I love a family neighborhood, neighbors you can trust (and who drop off champagne for you with a note on it that says "Welcome to the hood" haha), kids who are going to babysit your child, kids who are going to grow up with your child.., ride the same bus as her, etc.. Grandview heights, I love you.
So, the house. One big thing we knew right away going into the home that we were going to change is converting the home from oil to gas. I called around and got oil prices on Monday and it confirmed that we absolutely need to do that. The price is just insane. I called and confirmed everything with UGI and we are expecting to get the contract in the mail this week to get everything started so for now we are committing to not using up all of the oil we have left (it heats both the water and heat) by not using the heat which of course then brings 30 degree weather this week where our house is freezing and we have small heaters running in Toris room (at night) and the living room(during the day). The previous owners of this home had their garage converted to a bedroom and their first floor bathroom made into a handicap accessible full bathroom because they had a son who was in a freak accident and paralyzed from the neck down. That part of the house is so beautiful and new, and then the rest of the house is old fashioned and beautiful. They took amazing care of the house and had the whole thing painted for the sell, etc. So here are some pictures that were featured on the MLS and I plan to do a room by room update once we move along with décor and painting and stuff.

Front of the house:

Back of the house:

Dining Room:

Kitchen:

BTW, I want to do a chalkboard wall in the kitchen, do you think on this wall looking straight into the kitchen or in the picture under it which is the wall that has the door leading to the basement?

Downstairs full bathroom:

Tori's playroom:

Sunroom:

 

Living room:

Bedroom:

They all 3 look the same except the master has a large closet

Upstairs bathroom:

 

*And for all of you interior decorator types: let me know if you have any décor ideas! I pretty much have the kitchen set except for the chalkboard wall and Tori's playroom is done except for some wall décor. So I am open to ideas :)

 

I hope you enjoyed the 'before' tour. Enjoy this hideously rainy day.