virtual tour

I finally got around to taking pictures of our place. Don't judge me on the less-than-clean rooms...we live here. ;)

This is our bedroom. It's slightly smaller than the office, but the closet has a lot more hanging space. It's also on the back of the townhouse, so there's not really road noise (I'm not sure there would be anyway). We got 2 of the dressers for free from Craig's List and the other for cheap at a garage sale. All of them are definitely used, but we like cheap. We'll get nicer furniture eventually. :) The white bookshelf came from my bedroom at my parents' house - I use it as a nightstand, just like Mom does. ;) And notice the hot air balloons on the box spring? What's even better is the dinosaurs on the actual mattress. (Don't worry, we got them brand new.) Maybe some day we'll get a bed skirt.

These are the bathrooms. The one on the left is upstairs in the hallway between the two bedrooms. I got really excited to decorate, and I especially wanted to have a cute shower curtain. (Everyone has their quirks, right?) I like how it turned out. We got pretty much everything at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, I think. And yes, that is a shampoo/conditioner/soap dispenser. ;) Brian tried the one at my parents' house and decided he liked it enough to get one himself. (Thanks for deciding Mom needed one all those years ago, Scott.) The bathroom is plenty big, but there's not much storage space, so we also got that cabinet to go over the toilet. There's not much to say about the half bath downstairs (main floor - right picture). It's a bathroom.

This is what we originally called the guest room/library/study/office. I think we finally settled on "office" (or I did, anyway). But then Mom came to visit and graciously made curtains for us out of sheets. :) (Window treatments are expensive - the people we're renting from don't provide blinds - so we decided on homemade curtains. Mom did a great job!) When we realized the natural light coming in the window cast a red glow on the room, we jokingly began calling it "the red light district." Of course, as often happens, the name stuck.

Here's the front door and living room. The door is brand new because it was apparently dented, as if someone had tried to bust it down. (And since they were replacing our door, they decided to replace all the doors in this building.) It opens right onto the staircase, which is fine until you have to move a couch or washer or dryer into the house. We had some fun maneuvering. :) The living room is currently a little sparse, and it will probably stay that way for a while. We have a leather couch (courtesy of Craig's List), an end table, a tv stand (both from a garage sale we raided - we also got the computer desk, filing cabinet, and computer chair there...and fit it all in my Camry in one trip), and 2 Walmart lamps. We might get around to hanging pictures eventually. ;) (We haven't even printed wedding photos yet.) By the way, leather does pick up smells - I had convinced myself that it doesn't - so we're still working on getting the dog smell out of the couch. It's slightly better than it was. At least it wasn't smoke.

Here's the kitchen and hallway back to it. Plenty of counter and cupboard space, just the way I like it. :) We aren't even sure what to do with all the cupboards right now. I'm sure that will change once we start having little Casadays. You may or may not be able to see them, but the bar/hooks on the cupboards above the sinks came from Ben and Laura. I didn't know we had them but was ecstatic when I found them in a box of other stuff because I'd been coveting the ones that some of our friends have. Check out that brand new stove too! We were without one for the first week or so after moving in, but I think it was worth it to get a new one. I didn't take a picture of the dining area/table because there were papers all over and I was too lazy to move them. ;) The hallway has 2 nice big closets - one with all shelves and one huge coat closet. Oh yeah...did you notice the dishwasher? We haven't used it in the month we've been here, except as a glorified drying rack.

Last but not least, the basement. Neither room is finished, but we don't care - we're just happy to have the extra room. We got the shelves at a garage sale and the washer and dryer from Craig's List. Brian rigged up a hanging rack for me (he loves me!!) out of PVC so I can hang stuff as I'm pulling it out of the dryer. Not much else to say about the basement, other than that I love being able to do laundry at home, whenever I need to, instead of having to run to the laundromat. :)

So that was probably longer and more boring than it needed to be. Thanks for coming on the virtual tour of our house! And there's plenty of room here for friends/family who want to come take a real tour. :)