Parade of Home.

It’s what you’ve been waiting for! The big home tour. You may have lost sleep in anticipation of this, and I promise that you will not be disappointed. Actually, if you did lose sleep over this, you will definitely be disappointed. There isn’t much that is worth losing sleep over, at least in terms of virtual home tours.

Since pictures don’t always say 1000 words, I thought I would shoot a little video as well. That way, whatever words the pictures don’t say, I can just say instead. So let’s start with that. Enjoy!

Now, let’s move on to the before-and-afters! We’ll start with the living room. No painting job done here, just some set-up and organization.

LIVING ROOM BEFORE: Just a pile of stuff and 2 sleeping boys.

AFTER:

Next, it’s on to the dining room! As you can see in the 3rd picture above, it is situated just off of the living room, where the patterned curtains are. That picture is taken while standing in the front entryway.

DINING ROOM BEFORE:

AFTER:

In the right-hand corner closest to the camera, there is a built-in white hutch that we can’t see in this picture. One of the cooler features that reminds us that our home was built in 1933. We did include it in the video above, and who doesn’t want to watch a home video where a china hutch is taped and discussed?

On to the kitchen! Goodbye, purple. Hello, blue.

BEFORE SHOT #1:

Please excuse my appearance in this picture. I think its pretty obvious that we haven’t had running water for a day or two.

AFTER SHOT #1:

BEFORE SHOT #2:

Yikes!

AFTER SHOT #2:

Aaah. Much better.

Now, the bedroom.

BEFORE #1:

This room has so much personality, don’t you think?

AFTER #1:

BEFORE #2:

I get anxiety re-visiting this mess.

AFTER #2:

Just waiting for a comforter to arrive that matches those pillowcases. Its a very Zen space, I think.

Now one of my favorite rooms…the Reading Room/Future Guest Bedroom. I guess we should include ” /Workout Room,” since that’s where we use our treadmill. So really, its a room devoted to physical and intellectual exercise! If you know how much we love books, it comes as no surprise that we devoted an entire room to the consumption of literature. And if you know how heavy that treadmill is, it comes as no surprise that we left it in the space closest to the front door. And by “we,” I mean “not me because the boys were here so why would I do any heavy lifting.”

BEFORE:

AFTER:

The treadmill is in the front right-hand corner. We LOVE this space.

Since the bathroom didn’t undergo any dramatic transformations, I’ll just include the “after” shot:

And one quick shot of the outside:

And that concludes our basic tour! Hope you enjoyed our “Parade of Home” and our first home video. With all the before-and-afters, I feel like we did an incredibly amateur version of an HGTV show, without that montage in the middle that shows all the work being done while a clock ticks away in the corner of the tv screen.

Seth’s mom is heading out to visit tomorrow, so we look forward to exploring more of the area with her. You know who else should come visit? YOU.

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