Tour Our New Home
You guys may recall a couple of weeks ago when I announced that we had purchased a new home, sold our old home, and moved. Yay! As promised, I’m showing a tour of our new home. The photos of the interior of the house, are from the day we settled on it. So you are seeing it on day 1, with no furniture, no paint, nothing done to it yet!
Here’s the front of our house. It’s a fairly typical colonial home in a neighborhood of similar homes. We are excited to have brick on the front of the house, it’s such a nice classic look and more durable than vinyl.
This is our new foyer. I fell in love with the cherry floors in this house, that was a huge selling point for us! The planks are much wider than the floors in our Old House.
This is the living room. I’ve always wanted to have a home with a Bay Window, this home has 3 of them! And as you can see the Living Room has two of the three.
This is the Dining Room. It has a lovely tray ceiling … and a not so lovely brass chandelier! There is a matching brass chandelier in the Foyer. I’m itching to change out both of those light fixtures!
This is the family room. I love the big windows in here! The fireplace is almost exactly like the one in our old house.
This is the opposite side of the Family room. As you can see so far, nearly the whole house is a blank canvas, so many white walls to paint!
This is my husband’s office, as you can see the other Bay Window is in here and it has pretty French Doors leading into it.
The kitchen has Cherry cabinets and sandy colored granite. My dream kitchen was the White Martha Stewart Kitchen, from Home Depot, that I left behind at our old home, I’m just a white kitchen kind of girl I guess! But I can hardly complain about this kitchen. And the GE Stainless Steel appliances are really great, there’s even a convection oven! I might need some lessons on how to use that!!
The kitchen opens up to a light and bright Morning room with big beautiful windows!
The one area in the house that was already painted, are the master bedroom and bath. The bedroom is gray. It’s not a bad shade, so we will probably live with it for awhile. I don’t have any touch up paint though and no way of knowing what color it is, so it will need to be changed at some point, as there are some marks on the walls. I love the tray ceiling in here!
The bathroom is so pretty and the tile is nice and neutral!
This area is going to be used as my crafting area! I’m so excited to have windows { my old craft room had none} so that I can do my projects and photograph them all in the same space! Also, I’ll be able to stay toasty warm in the Winter next to that fireplace!
The previous owner used this space as a Gym, but I’ll be turning it into my office! My previous office had no windows at all, so again I’m really excited to have some light, even if the windows are a bit small, it’s still a huge improvement!
Now for the surprise!
Many of you may know my friend Johnnie’s blog, at Saved by Love Creations. Johnnie just moved into a new home too! While our home is in the suburbs… Johnnie and her husband purchased a Farm House in the Country! We thought it might be fun to coordinate our posts as we transform our homes, so that you guys can get twice the DIY/Decor inspiration for the price of one!! And when I say “price” of course we’re not gonna charge ya! Haha! We hope you will enjoy following our journey’s as we turn our houses into homes! You can see Johnnie’s Home Tour HERE.
Pendra says
Beautiful home! I love the morning room and I’m jealous, a fireplace in your creative space… I would never leave it! We’ve been in our new (old) home now for 2 years, and I’m still painting, I should have bought stock in a paint company!! It’s fun to take a house and turn it into a home and I can’t wait to see what you will be doing!!
Enjoy and try to relax sometime… you don’t seem to ever sleep!
Warm, happy, home hugs,
Pendra
thuy says
Thanks for the tour Karen.
The house is beautiful and dying for your touch. Hope u will post photos when u get moved in and share your projects with us.
Wish I could be thin and look as fit as u do!
Karen Watson says
Thank you Thuy! I will post more photos soon!
Julia says
Where exactly in Northern Virginia are you now? This looks like my neighborhood haha. It’s a lovely home, congratulations!
Karen Watson says
Hi Julia,
Nope, still in Maryland! I know what you mean though, a lot of the neighborhoods in this part of the country look the same!
Margaret A (Granmargaret) says
Lovely home. I look forward to seeing the craft room set up.
Karen Watson says
Thank you Margaret! I’m looking forward to having that area done, it’s taking awhile to get all of my supplies unpacked and organized into just the right spot, but it’s starting to come together!
Kendra says
Beautiful house! Where is it located?
Karen Watson says
Thanks Kendra!
Laura Strack says
So happy for you and your hubby! You are going to have so much fun decorating your new beautiful home! Thank you for the tour and for sharing this new journey. I’m looking forward to seeing the transformation. I just love before and after pics!! This is going to be fun 🙂
Karen Watson says
Thanks Laura! I’m a big fan of before and afters too, I always get hooked on those types of shows on HGTV, I never get tired of them!
Robin says
How Awesome!!!
What a Beautiful Home ~ It will be fun to see how you put your special touches on it!
Blessings
Robin
Karen Watson says
Thank you Robin!
Julia - Vintage with Laces says
The house is gorgeous, Karen. Congratulations! I love the floors, bay windows, French doors and everything else too. What fun this will be to furnish and decorate this place. You’ll make it a wonderful home for your family and I look forward to your posts about it.
Karen Watson says
Aw! Thank you so much Julia!
P.S. I’m glad you liked your feature from the other day, I love your style and I’m happy to feature you any time!
Judy H. says
I love how all of the windows in your home make the whole house radiate light!
Karen Watson says
Thanks Judy! Yes, I love that too, the light is really good in this home!