Woznation

We cant thank Brian enough for finding us an awesome rental house.  There were a few places I saw online that seemed ok from the pictures, and then Brian would check them out and give us a big fat ‘NO’.  I was starting to get nervous and wanted to pick a reject, until we saw this place and Brian gave his approval.  Thank goodness we listened and waited to him.  This place is perfect for us for the next year while we start to search for a long-term home.  Here is a tour of the new place —

View from front door, south side of the house, facing the street:

Looking back at the main room from the piano:

Turn the corner to the dining room on the west side of the house:

Walk straight into the kitchen, with a window on the north side of the house:

‘Eat-in Kitchen’, the kids love it 🙂

Turn into the play room on the north side of the house with sliding doors out to the back yard:

Looking back at the playroom.  Man we love this space.  It keeps the main family room free of the kids clutter and gives them a room where they can throw balls, build and knock down towers, scream, dance, and do whatever they want!!

If you head up the stairs, there are two rooms on the north side of the house.  Evie is on the east:

Wil’s room is on the west:

Then directly across from Wil’s room, on the west side of the house is a guest room:

Down the hall, on the east side of the house there is a guest (kids) bath:

Then the master bedroom is the entire south side of the upstairs.  We are able to have our bedroom set and office-area up there.  It also has a nice sized walk-in closet and master bath:

Blank walls.  Still working on filling out the space –

Master bath:

We arent totally in love with the curb appeal of this house, but thats the least of our worries:

Most of the yard was fenced, but Phil needed to put up some stakes/fence on the sides.  Its been working out great.  Its amazing to be able to open the door and let Barney out to run around:

I left out a few pictures of the garage, laundry room, and downstairs bath (which is so awesome to have, given we only had upstairs bathrooms in the row house).  There is much more livable space, but slightly less storage, other than the garage. I love living in a neighborhood where the kids can run around in the back yard or outside on the sidewalk without me worrying about them. I love having a garage/drive-way so that I always have a close place to park and unload groceries and kids, especially on rainy days. Living in a house is getting me that much more excited to start looking to buy a home soon!