So as of five seconds ago,
we decided to try to sell our house and move. Because it's not like I'm not 100 months pregnant or anything. (But as anybody with small children knows, there is never a good time to do anything because you will always be this poor and this tired.) Anyway, we're still doing stuff to prep the house for sale like replacing a few windows and packing up the majority of our belongings so it appears that we are in fact organized people. So I don't have any fancy pictures of my house yet. Our plan is to try to get it up on the market by mid-July. (Of course, I would love to avoid this because I am 100 months pregnant, so if you want to buy my house right now, you should do it!)
Still, some people have been asking me for some more stats and pics. So I did the laziest thing in the whole universe and I looked for pictures I already have to give you the cheapest house tour ever. Enjoy!
Our house is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath shotgun in the Original Highlands. When you open the front door, you're in the living room.
What you can't see: two big windows, wooden blinds, fire place, etc. (You know, all the stuff you care about.)
Here's the other side of the fire place. Those shelves will stay (and will look awesome once I vignette the heck outta of them.) We painted so the walls are a nice silvery color now and not that obnoxious yellow.
Like I said, it's a two bedroom shotgun, but it has a hallway so both bedrooms are private. Just to orient yourself, we're now looking down the hall towards the front door. (See the one window in the living room? I told you!) MH's room is on the right. Those are some billy book shelves that are anchored to the wall and will stay.
Now we're in what I call the "bathroom lobby," right after the hallway. That's the bathroom door on the left. Behind that is the door to our bedroom and off of our bedroom is a huge laundry room. Straight ahead is our kitchen which we built completely from scratch a few years ago. Note how thin Desmond is, placing this picture sometime in 2010.
Another kitchen shot. This is when MH was an infant and Jonathan is sponge bathing her on the kitchen table. Already Harper can sense that he has been exiled from our affections. What you probably care about: there's a huge window, ample room for table and chairs, tons of cabinet and counter space, and appliances to remain.
And this is the room off the kitchen (which actually was the kitchen when we moved in.) Both this room and the laundry room were originally the back porch and refinished by drunk people sometime in the 1960s. We took both rooms down to the studs, reinforced everything structurally, put in all new wiring and sheet rock, etc. This is now the dog's room, but could be used for an office, a small dining room, or a kick ass mud room. It has a ton of windows and leads to the backyard (which I can't find any pictures of, but is totally fenced with new privacy fences and has a new shed.) There's also a cellar that has outdoor access, Wizard of Oz style.
So what isn't pictured: either bedroom or the laundry room. The laundry room makes sense because why would I ever take pictures of that? (Just so you know, it's about the same size as the dog room and has the same pergo flooring.)
But it's kind of sorry that I have no pictures of my kid's bedroom. It's really cute. It has built in shelves with glass doors original to the house and a huge built in shelf/closet deal that Jonathan did right before she was born. There is a TON of storage in there. It also has a window, which is unusual for an enclosed bedroom in a shotgun house.
Both bedrooms have the same pine floor that's in the rest of the house (which is original and I hear kind of rare if you care about that kind of stuff). Oh, and our bedroom has a fireplace mantle just like the one (you couldn't see) in the living room.
Anyway, I have to go because Apartment Therapy keeps bugging the shit out of me about doing a house tour. Okay, okay, I'm coming! Keep Calm and Carry on, will ya? (Hipsters can be so impatient.)
