The House Tour, Part 1
I realized the other day that I haven’t really shared many photos of our duplex yet, and I decided that now would be a good time to change that. Our little home is tiny, but we love it. It’s definitely not as personalized as we would like it to be, as we are limited on what we can do (since, you know, we’re renting) but we did our best with what we have.
When you walk into our house, this is what you see:
Sorry, my boys were all being lazy and I couldn’t get them all to move long enough to get a good photo. This is probably more accurate, anyways.
On a side note, do you see how cute those dogs are? Seriously, I think we need a close up:
Love them.
Anyways, if you turn to your right, you’ll see my least favorite part of our entire house:
Ranger’s massive kennel. It’s a huge eyesore, but we don’t have anywhere else to put it, so we deal. Hopefully when we move we’ll have a laundry room or something that this can hang out in, so it’s not one of the first things you see when you come into the house! There’s also a bike behind it – Corey rides his bike to school sometimes when the weather is nice and, once again, this is the only place we can keep it as we don’t have a garage and he doesn’t want to leave it outside. Sigh.
If you’re hanging out on the couch, this is what your view looks like:
Our house is small enough that it’s really difficult (read: pretty much impossible) for me to get a photo of the entire living room all at once, but here’s the television, which is sitting off to the left of the couch:
Yes, there is a door missing from that cabinet. Our dogs ran into it while it was open and cracked it. My dad’s fixing it for us.
And opposite the television is our photo wall. It hasn’t been updated in forever…hopefully the next project I tackle will be to get some wedding photos printed so I can change this up a bit!
And that is our living room! I’d say it’s probably one of the most “finished” rooms in our house, although the wall with the television really drives me nuts. We didn’t want to paint too much in the house, since we have to paint it all back before we move, so we ended up leaving one wall in the living room white. It doesn’t look terrible, but that wall looks so blank and boring compared to everything else!
I planned on sharing a bit more of the house today, but everything else is messy and I am too lazy to clean right now, so that will have to come later this week.
So, tell me, do you have a big eyesore in your house like our kennel? What have you done to conceal it? Any tips for us?
Where did you find those letters on your photo wall?!? I’ve been looking every where for LOWER CASE wooden letters but most of the craft stores only have upper case!
We got them from Kohl’s a while back, but I think I’ve seen them there since then. Hope that helps!
I LOVEEE house tours too!! I love your coffee table, where did y’all get it? We’ve been looking for a new one. Sooo hard to pick out!
We got it from Ashley Furniture a few years back! I don’t know if they carry it anymore, but they may have something similar! It’s really huge, and perfect for game nights. 🙂 We love it.
CUTE PUPPIES!!!
Our tv’s/tv stands look very similar. I love your sofa and chair and half! This made me want to take pics of our house.
Love your picture wall! Our apartment walls are all cement, so it’s basically impossible to hang anything from them. Our next place, I am definitely doing one of these!
I love your photo wall! I’ve been meaning to do one of my own in our living room, but I can’t quite figure out how to make it look “right”. Yours is great inspiration! 🙂
I love house tours! I’m so impressed with how neat your bookshelf is! Mine are terribly clutters with tchotchkes.
Yeah, I’m a bit anal when it comes to random trinkets in my house. We have a lot more of them in the guest bedroom, which I’ll show later this week. If it were up to me we’d get rid of any of the random tchotchkes that don’t go with the rest of our decor (which would be most of them) but Corey gets emotionally attached to things and won’t let me get rid of them!
Ahh! I love this idea to give us a tour of your home! I might do the same thing!
And the boys look WAY too adorbs on the couch. I love the grey walls too!