Home Sweet Home

The house is still not exactly the way we want it...we are still looking for a couch and a bookshelf--dear lord, it is so hard to find a flippin' bookshelf.  I have taken this as cold, hard evidence that people no longer read.  

We may still be missing key pieces of furniture, and we may have filled the empty spaces with some rickety rattan pieces and piles of broken down cardboard boxes, but I am super in love with my new home.  

Bryan and I love the view and the breeze, and I'm super duper excited about our big kitchen.  I made a Chilaquiles Casserole for lunch today.  It was delicious.  I will probably eat more of it before heading to work in a bit.

Until then...a few photos of the house that I snapped especially for you.  There will hopefully be more as we continue to get settled.

{the front of the house}

You can see my green beast of a car hunkered down on the curb to the far right.  The whole house is broken down into four apartments.  The front of the house is a three bedroom apartment where a trio of girls live with a dog (hence the fenced in yard on the right).  There is a small studio space in the middle, Will and Ashley have a one bedroom towards the back of the house, and we have the one bedroom apartment on the second floor.

To get back to our place, you have to walk towards the garage area and down a walkway along the left side of the house (just past Will and Bad Ash's red truck).

{back of the house}

The lower section of the house belongs to Will and Ashley.  To get to our place you need to walk up the stairs.  Note the small potted plant at the bottom of the staircase--that's a Hawaiian chili plant.  Teeny, tiny but incredibly hot (pica!) peppers grow on that thing.

{T-Bone}

T is looking especially dejected because his people, Will and Ash, left for Europe this morning (I drove them to the airport!).  But don't worry, he is going to get loads of love and attention from all of us at the house.

{coming up our staircase}

The first sliding door opens up to our living room/kitchen area and the sliding doors further back lead into the bedroom.  Both are fitted with screens, so we can keep the doors open and enjoy the breeze.

{living room}

As you can see, the kitchen in the back opens up into the living room, so it's a great space to cook in.  Bryan brought up his huge coffee table (directly up front in this photo) and a small kitchen table with chairs (tucked to the far right under a window).

The boxes on the kitchen floor under the kitchen bar are filled with books.

{bedroom}

Please notice the two fans angled towards the bed.  This is the "fan zone."  Even though we get a nice breeze most of the day and night, we definitely need the fans going through the heat of the summer day unless we want to lose our sanity.  But once again, much, much cooler than either of our previous homes.

I have the classy dresser on the left there while Bryan has repurposed a wooden chair as his bedside table (after I suggested it).  I want to get him a little clip-on reading light that we can attach to the back of the chair.  How cute would that be?  I'm really digging his nontraditional bedside table.

Yup, you saw that right, that's Gingerbread on the bed.  He really has traveled the world with me.  I'm very glad that he got thrown in the washer and dryer before our move.  Now he's clean enough to hang out on the bed again.

I hope everyone enjoyed the house preview!