Home Sweet Home #3

We moved into our rental house on July 1st, after spending two weeks in TLF on base.

our first house!

front door & front room

front room

kitchen

kitchen

This house came with a built-in coffeemaker! And toaster oven. But a coffeemaker! 

How cool is that? Especially since ours has been in storage since we moved to Germany and hasn't arrived yet. It's the little things : )

view from kitchen

door on the left is the pantry

living room

view of kitchen/hallway to front door from living room

hallway off of living room that leads to bedrooms/bathrooms/laundry room

view of the office (right) and guest room (left) from hallway

view of guest room (right), laundry room (middle) and guest bathroom (left)

laundry room, which leads out to the garage

 above & below: guest room

 
guest bathroom  

 above & below: office

above & below: master bedroom

 above & below: our closet
We've never had to share a closet before, so it should be interesting...

 above & below: master bathroom

right corner of the backyard

middle of the backyard

left side of the backyard

more of the left side

side yard to the right, facing the back of the house

side yard to the left, facing the back of the house

We had been assured by our landlord that the house would be cleaned before we moved in, but we soon found out that if it had been cleaned, it had not been done very well. We had him bring in a cleaning service to scrub the hard water deposits off the shower glass. Other than that, we decided we could do the rest and therefore be a blessing instead of a burden. I spent a week and a half straight scrubbing, with some help from Nathan. Every single surface of this place has been touched by some kind of cleaner and it's all looking much better.

 One evening we borrowed the neighbor's vacuum and cleaned all along the baseboards. There was a.ton.of.cat/dog.hair. Gross. 
Quotes while we were working:
"Oh, this is so nasty!"
"Look how big this hairball is!"
"We are never having pets. Ever."
"Ok, we're apparently super clean people."

 We cleaned about half of the carpet the afternoon before our stuff arrived. It was so dirty. Look at that water! Gag me.

above, below & following: some progress in the backyard

Plants have been planted and bark chips been laid down in almost all the beds. Nathan, with some help from me, has worked hard to get it looking nice.

 working on getting all the beds covered with bark chips

There were two rose bushes in the backyard when we moved in. They looked terrible, but with the tiniest bit of care, they have really taken off.
There are two things in this house that remind me of my grandparents' house: the rose bushes and the gas stove. Makes me miss occasionally spending the night on weekends and eating big lunches after church every Sunday over there.

 A beautiful sight! Our stuff arrived yesterday. It's great to be sleeping in our bed again.

I was tasked with marking off the box numbers as they were unloaded from the truck. It was really nice to have a job and not just stand around while everyone else worked.

More pictures to come once we get everything unpacked! We're also planning to buy some furniture, like a headboard for our room and a new sofa for the living room. Also, there may be some painting. We'll see how confident I feel in taking that on.

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