Real-life House Tour!

Welcome to our little home! I'm linking up this (partial) house tour to the Real-Life House Tour Party over at Transforming Home. (Great idea, Danielle!) I'm only featuring the "core" of our house for now - the most presentable rooms at the moment. Plus, I have some projects currently in the works for some of the other rooms and don't want to show them quite yet. But you'll still see some parts of our house that I haven't shown yet, so I hope you enjoy!

(I apologize if some of the pictures are a little blurry... apparently I still have not learned how to use my new camera.)

Front door, which I plan on painting soon! Come on in...

This is what you see when you walk into our strange entryway. We've had those temporary paper shades in our living room windows for about, oh, two years now. I like the arches, which give the house some character. The ceilings throughout are also 10 feet high, which makes the small rooms feel much more spacious than they are.

To the right of the door is the rest of our "foyer" (for lack of a better word). The sideboard was a wedding gift from Luke's parents - our first real piece of furniture!

Next to the living room is the archway leading into our dining room. Normally we have piles of paper on the table, but I cleaned up a bit for the tour.  :)  Note: We have an exciting project in the works for that big empty wall!

And this is the view of our dining room from the kitchen - notice the hole in the wall, which we added (errr...subtracted?) ourselves!

Here's the view from our dining room looking back toward the hallway and staircase (which leads down to our unfinished basement). To the left is our guest bedroom, and to the right is our hall bathroom and office. Note: My talented hubby made the ladder shelf - more on that some other time.

We have a nice little ledge in our staircase where we're currently displaying some photos and souvenirs that Luke brought home from when he studied abroad in Europe a few years ago. When I look at this picture though, it looks like we need some larger artwork to fill up that wall! This photo makes the walls look kind of orange-y, but they are more of a reddish-brown.

Lastly, our hall bathroom. I was pretty pleased with how the Target shower curtain coordinates so well with the wall color! This bathroom is small, but cozy. I prefer it over our master bathroom sometimes!

FYI - We haven't painted any of the walls yet since we moved in. These were the colors that the builders selected, which luckily we happened to like! (Although their paint job left a little to be desired - all the rooms could probably use another coat. )

That's all for now, folks... thanks for visiting, and stay tuned for some fun projects! :)