I've had multiple requests to post photos of the living room with the new rug. I was hoping to get the curtains up too before I posted the photos, but I just learned that my curtain rods are on back-order until the end of February! So, you'll just have to imagine some maroon curtains on the windows for now. :-) I'll post another photo when they're up. I'm also going to look for some endtables to go on either side of the couch...

Pippin loves having all of our furniture back...

And in case you didn't hear, yesterday was Christmas with Uncle John and Aunt Linda! Jason and I hosted it here at our place. It went very well, except for the fact that I made a dessert with cool whip in it, but that's a whole other story. Anyway, here's a photo of our Christmas present from Aunt Linda, which we have hung proudly in the foyer...
And, one more thing! We only have room for one endtable in the family room, and we really didn't want to put a coffee table in there because we like the open floor space, but we felt like we needed something for people to put drinks on. So, we found this perfect solution. This square ottoman is easy to move around, it provides extra storage inside (for blankets and things), and the top flips over to be a tray when you need it. I saw them in a Crate and Barrel catalogue first, and then we found them in Target for half the price! They work great...

That's all of the updates for now. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Hi everyone!

I found a few spare moments tonight to snap a few pictures of my new room and kitchen. The house is a gorgeous home, built in the 1930s I believe. This means lots of interesting architectural elements, and nice, solid building materials, along with a lot of quirks (i.e. doors that take an extra push to get them to latch)



Currently, my desk chair is that rather small balance ball...a la a suggestion from Manda. It's really a terrible chair, but it'll tide me over til my new one arrives!

My favorite part of the room...these gorgeous built in little step/shelves (my room is over the front entryway downstairs, hence the stair outcroppings. I'm quite the fan, however. The blue parasol up in the top corner was my Christmas present from Stephan :)



Love the tile work in the kitchen, and all the dried herbs and plants from the garden..

And here is the infamous washer/dryer. I tried to use it last night, and it took me 2.5 hrs to wash/dry a small load of jeans...well mostly dry...and the jeans came out so wrinkled I had to iron them anyway. Damn! Guess I'll be putting in some quality iron time for a while ;-)

I'll put up pictures of the outside of the house and the garden soon!