As I mentioned a few days ago, I am in the process of buying my first home.  The process is moving on along.  At times, it seems really fast.  While at other times, I feel like I play the waiting game way too much.  I guess that is the nature of the beast that is home buying.

I went by the house yesterday and took a bunch of pictures inside and out of the house.  As soon as the keys are mine, we plan on doing a bunch of painting and floor cleaning/replacing so I wanted to have a set of pictures that I can use to compare to later on.  Plus, more than one person have asked for more pictures of the house.  This kills 2 birds with 1 stone.

Here is a quick tour of the house followed by a link to a Flickr photo album with these photos and more.  I’m going to hold off sharing what our preliminary plans are for wall colors and so forth.  I do want to let you know that the paint color on all of the walls (minus trim) will be changing.  Plus, the carpeting will eventually all be replaced (with wood laminate, more than likely, in the dining room & master bedroom and then new carpet everywhere else).

Let’s start with the exterior of the house.  Right now, the yard is not fenced in (except for the sides where the neighbors’ fences are & a barbed wire fence at the back of the property line where it separates me from a large field).  It is a great shaped yard, though.  It will be perfect for my dog Gracie to run and play (after a fully enclosed fence is put up).

This is a view from the front door looking straight ahead.  The doorway to the right is the formal dining room.  The little closet ahead is the coat closet.  The staircase to the left leads upstairs.  The door to the left is a little half bath for guests.  The back room is the living room.  The 2nd picture is a view down to the front door from the upstairs balcony.  As afraid of heights as I am, I’m going to have to rely on people who climb ladders to clean and decorate that ledge.  Haha.  The 3rd picture is a view from the back of the house to the front door.

This is the dining room.  I love the light fixture.  I actually love all of the light fixtures in this home.  They are the colors I would pick (not a gold-tone person so I lucked out & have none of that in the house).

The dining room has a doorway that leads into the kitchen.  (You can see through to the dining room in this picture.)  I love this kitchen!  (You’ll have to excuse all of our junk sitting on the counter.  There is a sink in the midst of that clutter.)  On the right hand side of this picture, between the refrigerator space and the top cabinet, there is a door.  This is a good sized pantry.  To take this picture, I am standing in a breakfast nook area.

If I make a 90 degree turn to the right from where I was taking the above picture of the kitchen, I can duplicate the next picture.  This is a view from the breakfast nook into the living room.  The open glass door on the right leads to the back covered patio.  To left of the fireplace is the utility room/garage and the master suite.  I love all of the windows on the main level of this house.  There are 5 in the living room/breakfast nook area plus the glass backdoor.

Here is the master bedroom, bath, and closet.

Now, let’s head upstairs.

On the 2nd level there are 5 rooms – 2 spare bedrooms (pics 1 & 2), an office (pic 3), a bonus room (pic 4), & a full bath (pic 5).

That does it for the walk-through.  You can check out the full photo album here.  I’ll start posting during/after photos as soon as we get started.  I’m hoping that is very very soon!