The House Rental: part 1

Welcome to our new home! Here is the unmeasured, estimated floor layout, for your reference.

 We enter through the front door to see the family room on your left and the TV room on your right. I didn't get a photo of the front hallway, just use your imagination. It has dark, matte, rosy red walls with old worn orange carpet.

Now, on to the family/dining room. We love the bits of character the house has from the arts and crafts era. Most prominent of those is these lovely dark wood built-in pillars and half-walls.

We inherited the organ from the homeowner who basically said, "I don't want it but couldn't get rid of it, now it's your problem." It only kind of works... but that's a different story. If we're counting fire hazards in the house, the organ is tentatively number 1.

The second fire hazard is the fireplace itself which is crumbling on the inside, outside, and through the floor. Suffice it to say, we will not be building any fires in it, but it adds a lovely decor element and will be fun to decorate for Christmas. You can see more of the arts and crafts details in the below picture. Look at the wood relief above the window, and those windows are bay windows. Lovely!

If you saw our Catching Rainbows post, you know we catch rainbows at our house almost every morning. We get a myriad of light refractions from these beautiful cut glass windows. This is another detail we love.

Here is an angle looking in to the dining room. You can't see very well, but the half-walls have shelves with glass doors on them. Our folding table is temporarily in the dining room until we can get a smaller desk that fits our needs.

Here is the TV room. It's a little cozy, but we like it that way.

The futon in this room can function as a guest bed, too. Or, as our bed when guests come and sleep in the master bedroom, which is how we've done it so far.

Speaking of master bedroom, here it is! Henry naps in here, so we always have had the pack-n-play in our room with us.

Scott complains about our room saying there's so much poo on the wall. Oh, I mean pooh. There are 53 poohs on the wall, actually. I'm pretty sure I exaggerated the size of the closet on the floor layout because the closet in this room is not very large at all. Coming from a lovely walk-in master closet with built in shelves to this is an adjustment. Until we can get a dresser, my clothes are in neat piles on the floor below the biggest Winnie the Pooh home mural ever.

The largest closet in the house is actually in the kids bedroom, but it overwhelmingly smells like old cat urine mixed with a little bit of dead animal smell, so we use it sparingly. So I guess that segues us to the kids bedroom!

Grace made her own bed this day, can you tell? It's actually not too bad. In the window of this room was fire hazard number 3. After deep frying our electrical cord and filling the house with a burning plastic smell, my sister rescued us from the archaic AC window unit that was hours away (or less) from bursting into flames. It is now dead in our back yard, and fans have replaced it... fans that let in bats.

If you didn't catch the wall by Grace's bed, here is another shot of it. We're not quite sure what's going on here.

The photo doesn't capture the texture, either. Previous owners have tried (weakly), and failed to tear down the wallpaper, so they painted over the torn continent-shaped remnants with alternating brushes dipped in white, off-white, and blue. The rest of the wallpaper that is still "on" the wall isn't faring so well, either, as evidenced by the scotch tape barely holding it up.

Part 2 of the House Rental will be up when I get the time to blog again. I bet you can't wait!