Company.

Me, Clark, Brian

 

In May, we had our first overnight company.  Clark and his family were driving through Portland, and stopped to spend the night at our house!  Clark is getting so big!  He’s walking and “talking” and just so cute!

Table & Chairs.

After all of the money that we put into the remodel, we figured we’d be eating Japanese style for a while.  But, we were lucky enough to find a great deal on a table on craigslist.com! 

However, the table didn’t come with the chairs, and I had a tough time finding a great set of chairs that matched.  After a lot of searching, I finally found a set of 4 chairs that seem to match the table pretty well.  Unfortunately, the seat on each chair was a different fabric AND color.  Together, Brian and I (but mostly Brian) reupholstered the chairs.  I love how they turned out!

  These were 3 of the seats before.                                                                              Brian cutting new wood for the seats.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      After!

Celebrate!

Months ago (May, to be exact), Brian and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary. 

It was also around the time of Mother’s Day.  Brian bought me a pizza stone!  We use it at least once a week-- usually more.  We love it! 

Here’s our first pizza:

   We used to get our dough from Trader Joe’s and Winco.  But, I have since learned how to make whole wheat dough that is fantastic! 

Yum!

He also surprised me with these beautiful flowers Sunday morning:

 

This first year of anniversary celebrations is so fun…a little party every month.

House pictures (4)

I thought I was done...but I forgot about the family room.

View of family room from kitchen:

Another:

And another:

View from garage door:

View from sliding glass doors:

Fireplace:

Panoramic view:

Another:

I would show you the garage, but I can't imagine that any stage of the project (especially now!) would be clutter free.  But you should know that there is molding above the doors and windows in there too.  When the Harris' do something (and I'm not talking about me and Brian so much here, but the Harris' he came from), they do it big!  (At one point there was molding above the tile IN the showers...I think we all agreed that needed to come down.  It's a lovely idea, but I'm just not that fancy).

House pictures (3)

I saved my favorite room for the last post-- I love our kitchen!

This is the view as you come from the dining room into the kitchen:

This is the view from the family room:

Another view from the family room:

And even further into the family room:

Around the corner from the dining room:

And another looking into the dining room:

That's Brian's dad.  We are so grateful for all of his help.  He, Barbara, Chris, and many, many others made this all come together.  Thank you!

House pictures (2)

I covered the north side of the house in the last post-- now onto the next section of the house.

View from the entry way into the north side of the house-- the bathroom is at the end of the hall:

View from hall bathroom into entry way and then dining room:

View from hallway into step down living room:

Living Room:

Living Room-- view from dining room:

View of entry way & dining room from living room:

Dining room:

View of dining room from hall:

View of kitchen from dining room:

More to come...

Home sweet home!

Drum roll please...

I'm finally posting house pictures.

Bedroom 1:  (Before on the left, after on the right)

Bedroom 2:

Hall Bathroom:

Master Bedroom:

(picture on left was taken before it was sold)

Master Bathroom:

This is a lot of pictures for one post.  I'll post more in another post.

Pictures taken by Chris Harris (thanks!)