The House of Windows and Cupboards

 

When we moved into our first house I had an irresistable urge to start singing. I even had the perfect song.

Our house is a very, very, very fine house

With two cats in the yard...

Actually, our yard is cat central in a dog-heavy neighborhood, so there are frequently more than two. It's very cute, they use the sidewalk through our yard to get from the alley out back to the street out front, rarely treading on the grass.

Now commencing virtual tour, all aboard!

 

Coming in the front door, we find the living room. I love the bay window, especially. This room has a fireplace which would be functional if we called in a chimney dude to unseal it and check for integrity and all those other expensive things. It's hooked up for gas, though, so we're waffling (they're handier, but Ken and I both like wood fires). At the moment it's another cat den.

Stepping through that dark blue bordered french door we enter the office. This is the room with the most windows in the house, so we have to keep some curtained to keep glare off the monitors. There's room for all the work-book shelves, though, and I love the wood panelling. There's even a built in book case, and shelving all around the top.

Back out and through the open arch to the right we have the library. Other residents likely used this as the dining room, but we need a library far more desperately than we will ever need a dining room. Most of our dinners take place around the coffee table anyway. This is where all the leisure reading goes.

Moving on through the peach colored door we enter the prize of this house, the kitchen. It was pictures of the kitchen that first inspired two people who had no intention of buying a house to drool and look at each other and say, Do you suppose it's still for sale and can we call them up and see? Oh, it's such a wonderful kitchen. There's a gas stove, and enough oak cabinets for all the dishes and pans, and a lovely little dining nook that holds our dining table. Even if the dining table is far more likely to have book bags and mower parts on it than dishes.

The door at the far end goes down to the basement, but that's a mess, so let's go back out to the living room and up the stairs.

At the top of the stairs is the bedroom. At some point we need to paint that blue wall some other color. Probably a nice green. Funky little nook, isn't it? That's kind of my walk-in closet space, since the real walk-in closet around the corner went to Ken.

Just across the hall is our miniscule bathroom. The one really serious home improvement we're considering is a second bath on the ground floor. This one is nice enough, now that all the pink drapery is green instead, but there's barely enough room to turn around in there.

Next to our bedroom is the sewing room. Actually it's the stuffed animals, musical instruments, spare closets, and sewing room, but I put the sewing stuff in there specifically because it has enough floor space to cut out patterns on. I have plans to sponge that teal wall with metallic bronze; won't that look neat?

At the end of the upstairs hall is the spare room, with a built in closet which has become the linen closet. We actually have more cupboard space than things to put in it; I nearly fainted when I realized.

This concludes our virtual tour. You can see perhaps why I have to stop whatever I'm doing every so often just so as to gloat over having netted such a wonderful place. Oh, happy hardwood floors, and ceiling fans and a real yard with a real garden...

*gloat, gloat, gloat*