House Tour

I'll be adding a house tour to Take the Side Street in a permanent position tomorrow, but since I've never done anything like this I wanted to go ahead and post it too... enjoy!
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We bought our home in the summer of 2009 when we fell in love with its charm. Ever since then we've been making slow but steady progress to update it and remove the hunting lodge vibe (which my husband was okay with, anyone surprised?).

I don't know if we've actually completed one single room, due to my chronic ailment: shiny-thing-loving-distractable-squirrel-self...osis. But here's how it looks right this very second. Or, you know... recently.

Front Yard

Living Room

We've been working on the living room for 2 years now, no joke. Raise your hand if you just want it to be done...

That was me, raising my hand in case you didn't see it. We are oh-so-close to being done. The windows and doors are trimmed out now, but there's no baseboard. The two built-in cabinets housing electronic components need doors. I want cuter pillows and a slipcovered sofa that's a touch smaller, but that last one will probably have to wait.

Kitchen

We'll be knocking down a couple walls in the kitchen to open it up to the surrounding rooms and we'll also replace most everything... just not yet. So far we have painted walls and cabinets, the dishwasher and leaky faucet have been replaced, and that's about it.

Also, I'd just like to announce that the big square light in the kitchen is not a flourescent light, it's a killer skylight that opens by remote control. Yet another reason I lurve my house.

Dining Room

All we've done in the dining room is replace the light fixture and paint the walls, which has already made a big difference. I have some plans in this room's future, though...

Upstairs Bathroom 

Our upstairs bathroom required a a mini overhaul which you can read about here, and this room is almost done. I need to install baseboard here too, and finish caulking around the tile backsplash.

Master Bedroom

The master bedroom needs (wait for it...) baseboard! Plus I haven't painted the crown moulding yet (I apparently have an aversion to trim?). So to answer your question, no the crown is not supposed to be MDF-brown. I'm not trying to start some crazy weird trend, I'm just lazy!