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Welcome to Indiana! (our new house tour)

January 3, 2015 By Erica Deuel 2 Comments

Do you hear Taylor Swift singing “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you” as you read my title? Just image me shouting loudly “Indiana” over her as she sings New York. My poor family has had to put up with that for two months now.

To catch you up quickly, we packed up our trucks a little less than two months ago and moved north.

It’s been a packed two months! We started off by putting all our stuff in storage and living with a sweet family for a little over a month.  We found and closed on our new house after months of searching. We pulled our stuff out of storage, moved in and had a week in the house till we left and traveled back home to Georgia for Christmas with our families.

It’s been a wild ride, but one that we have loved. We have now officially been in our house for another week. It’s been so exciting. I constantly walk from room to room and think how much I love this house. The previous owners renovated it so beautifully. We are enjoying unpacking our stuff and setting this house up to be our home. As we find places and learn about the house, I continually think how it feels like the sweet previous owners were preparing this house for us. It is just perfect.

We bought a ranch, so we went back to our roots in some ways. We started our lives together in a little old ranch and now we are back in one. I love it. It’s crazy to me that this our third home to share with you. Our first home we lived in for our first 8.5 years of marriage, our second home we lived in for 18 months, and now we are here. Life is an adventure, and I am excited to show you some of our latest one…

backyardThere’s a few features that quickly had me fall in love with the house. One of them is the huge, flat backyard with a woods and a creek. I know there will be lots of sports played on that grass and I can’t wait for the kids to go trumping through that creek this spring. We want to build a bridge over the creek to the woods too. Our last house did not have a good backyard, and we really didn’t want to make that mistake again.

When you walk in the front door you are immediately in the living room. I love the fireplace. It was also a must on my list with the long winters here. To the right is a guest room that will also double as our foster care bedroom. Yes, we are getting re-certified!

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guest_roomIf you turned left in the living room, you would go down a hall way to a bathroom and two bedrooms. Reagan will get one bedroom and the boys will share the other.

bathroom2Reagan’s bedroom came with an electric fireplace. She is thrilled :).

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Reagan's_room1The boys bedroom was the previous owners’ office, so there are lots of lights and closet space!

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boys_roomSince we don’t have a basement, a lot of storage stuff will be in our guest room closet. At our last house we stored a lot of the school, games stuff in that closet. I’m so excited that the boys have two closets and one can be dedicated to holding lots of those bigger toys and games now.

If you go back to the living room and walk around the fireplace, you are in the three seasons room. It’s my favorite room in the house, and definitely one of the reasons we bought this house!

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sun_roomAll those windows are a dream! When we wake, we all find our way to this room. Matt and I drink our coffee in here and the kids play beside the fire. It’s amazing!

We also fell in love with the kitchen. It’s dark beautiful wood and the open floor plan has us dreaming of lots of fun gatherings in here.

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kitchen_renovatedThe master bedroom is off the kitchen. It has a little walk through with a desk and closets till you get in it. Matt and I have our own closets. We “temporarily” set up our tv in that little nook, so we have been watching movies as a family on our bed. We might have to get another tv for the living room, but I also like the cuddles so maybe we wont :).

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bathroom1If you walked through the kitchen, you go into the laundry room that also leads into the garage.

laundry_room Also, tucked back there is my new craft room!

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craft-ROOMThere’s huge windows and our pups can even fit through that doggie door. I wish I had made a video of us teaching the dogs to go in and out it. That was pretty funny!

Well, that’s our house. We feel so incredibly blessed. It truly feels like our heavenly father went before us and planned this house for us. We were so upset when we didn’t find a house right away or even a house we wanted was already under contract, but now we know we were just waiting for this house to be ready.  Thank you so much for your prayers and well wishes as we have been on this journey. We have truly felt them!

There are some cosmetic things we are changing and ways we are adding color and our touch on the place. I can’t wait to show you what we do! We have started painting the boys room and my craft room, and it’s so exciting to see my ideas come to reality.

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Old Home Tour

February 23, 2013 By Erica Deuel 10 Comments

We laughed with our realtor yesterday about the use of the term “house” versus “home.”  There is a difference between the two words.  One seems matter of fact and the other is personal.  Since we began this house attack process, our living residence was a “house” in most of my frame work.  I had a list of to-dos and I just kept at them.  This week, the list of to-dos got less and less until we were done.  Now that I am not in task mode and breathing (and able to sit once again), I am getting sad about leaving this place that we call home.

Our Home

 

We changed this old 1952 house from Matt’s bachelor pad to a place where we started our marriage and our family.  So many memories exist here.  Although I am excited for this next phase of life, it will be sad to close a huge chapter here.

Yesterday, I showed you a quick DIY Initial I made to complete one of my staged shelves.  Today, I want to give you the full tour of our house.  Almost the way potential buyers see it…a full video walk thru.  I will be updating our Home Tab at the top with more pictures soon, but I want to get them organized and edited properly first.  Until then, please come see our house!  Welcome in!

 

If you made it through the whole video, you saw we have two huge beds for these rascals.

My dogs

I don’t talk much about our pups, but they are fun (and trouble) and nervous wrecks right now with all the moving and changes that have been going on.  You also saw in the video I couldn’t take down all my boys’ art in their bedroom.  I took down LOTS of pictures for staging, but I just couldn’t take down all their art.  The video goes from our house to our apartment out back that I have mentioned we rent out to my brother and sister in law.  Tony is the wood worker that I always refer to, hence the big pile of wood at the foot of their bed.  The last thing you see is Matt’s office that Tony and our friend Zach helped create.  Its one of my favorite places on this property.

Well, there you have it!  That is our home!  I will be back soon with lots of pictures and some DIY of items you saw featured.

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Savannah, Georgia

October 18, 2012 By Erica Deuel 7 Comments

Last weekend I got to get away with three friends and spend the weekend in Savannah, Georgia.  It was a complete blast!  We went sightseeing, shopping, and did lots of eating.  It was the perfect girl’s getaway!

We ate lunch at a Mellow Mushroom right outside Savannah for lunch on our first day.  My boys have flipped over two of our lunch dates that were also eating there.  All four of us are moms of boys and took lots of pictures of the restaurant’s decor.  🙂

While sightseeing, we lived by the “block system” and the free maps located around Savannah.  I wasn’t very good with them, but I was very thankful to be with friends who were more proactive with figuring out the way to go.  My tendency is to think “let’s start walking, and we will find it”, which is not ever successful with my mind’s GPS.

They got us to this very cute store, The Paris Market.  Inside there were some real eye candy displays.

I absolutely love those glass lights.  I have no idea where I would put them, but I dream of having some somewhere someday!

I brought the boys home a bag of those beautiful marbles each.  They have been carrying them around like crazy but have had moments like in Hook where they are so upset they have “lost their marbles”.

I left that gorgeous store with those string balls on my to-do list.  I HAVE to make a bucket of them.  They are so colorful and fun.

This gorgeous drift wood elephant stood inside one store.  I have a thing for elephants and this one is perfection!

As we strolled from one store to the next and ate in lots of restaurants, we saw a common thing were these shelled chandeliers.  They really grew on me, and I kind of want to try to make one of them too!  We fell in love with a lot of the cute stores in Savannah.  There was one other store we just loved like The Paris Market, and I can’t remember the name.

We did lots of walking!  We walked all over on our own, and we also did two walking tours while we were there.  We did a ghost tour one night, and a cinema tour one afternoon.  They were both highlights of our trip!  Good thing they had one of my favorite stores in this town…

There were some beautiful candy stores along the river.  They provided lots of good treats to enjoy while walking around.

The squares around town are filled with Spanish moss trees, and I couldn’t get enough of them!

I had never been to Savannah and the beauty with the trees and architecture/buildings was so fun to take in.  The tours really helped us learn more about the city as well.  The Cinema tour was fascinating to see the parts of town which have been in movies.  We saw the square and restaurant that were used in Forest Gump.

I had never seen Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.  If you too have not seen it, it is a true story that took place in Savannah and then was also filmed there.  It was fascinating to see clips of the movie while we were looking at the real building.  The night after our tour we watched the movie.

This little history part of our trip was fascinating to all four of us, and we are all now reading the book that was written based on the movie’s plot.

I just adore all the features of these old houses.  I want to live in an old house with some of these fabulous features!  I love the great big front doors, the porches, the metal work, and definitely all the huge windows!

This is the main house in the Midnight of the Garden of Good and Evil.  So much history right here!

I love the color used on this house front.  So beautiful!

We had a lot of fun talking, laughing, and enjoying long meals with out the worry of a child losing it.  It was good to come home to my family though too!  It’s amazing how just a little space can be so rejuvenating and strengthening to go home and keep pouring into those cute, yet needy parts of your heart.

If you haven’t been to Savannah, GA, I highly recommend it!  Some of my favorite places were The Paris Market, Rocks on the Roof of the Bohemian Hotel, Huey’s, and The Moon River Brewing Company.  Oh, and you have to do a tour!!  For more gorgeous pictures from this trip please visit my friend Erin’s blog!

I hope you are all having a good week!  Check in tomorrow to see what item is in my Friday Project Spotlight!  It is something I haven’t made in a while, but I love them!

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