House Tour Part 2, The Master Bedroom

I like to decorate, one of my favorite things about being a military family is that I get to move into new houses all the time and decorate them, we have lived in some that I just could not do much with but most I have been pretty happy about.

For this room you will have to use your imagination some (well you will in most rooms as I do not have them *just right* and probably never will LOL). This room is lacking a headboard which I intend to make soon, a mirror that I just ordered and art work, in other words the walls are a little bland.
So this is the view from the foot of the bed. This room is small for a master bedroom, at least by American standards, it's about 10x11 feet, this is a king size bed, there is literally just enough room for our bed a table on either side a large wardrobe and a small table all of which you will see latter. Like I said we are lacking a head board, I'm going to make a padded head board as soon as I can get downtown and buy the plywood and foam for it. I have an iridescent taffeta in brown that will go great with this set.
To the left of the bed, my jewelry cabinet makes a small bed side table, just the right size.
To the right of the bed, this is a wash stand I got from someone who was selling off extra stuff.
The main clothes storage area, I have the drawers and the double door of the wardrobe, Justin has the single door and the rolly carts.
This is my dressing table, the mirror I ordered is going above this, you can also see out the door down the hall that leads to the kitchen. The curtain is covering a french door that leads out to the patio/courtyard

Thats the master bedroom.

A look into my home

I want to get better at blogging, both as a creative outlet and a way to share my everyday live with others.

There have been a few people who have wanted to see what our new home looks like so bit by bit I will post photos. This is my work room, just one shot of it. It's one of two downstairs rooms in the flint cottage part of our house.

Swimming!

What started out as an attempt to teach Olivia about pouring liquids into containers turned into a fun afternoon of swimming. She's still small enough to fit in a wash basin :).

This is our back yard, the smallest we have had yet, and a postage stamp to our last one.

She spent a lot of time just lounging like this. We are going to buy a wading pool this weekend!

Home Tour

So here it is the promised post with pictures of my house!! There are things that are very normal for a British house in our home and there are things that are not for example it's pretty open feeling even though it's not really all that large it's laid out so that there are windows on both sides of the living room and kitchen which help to give light all day and let them feel larger.

So onto the tour....

This first picture is the entry and our downstairs cloak room (half bath). To the right there is a small room that is either a study or small bed room, it's my sewing room but due to lack of furniture its a mess so I'm not showing that room today, sorry.

This is looking into our lounge (living room)/dinning room from the entry. We use this area for living room/play room/office, and we will have a dining table there in front of the fireplace once we find one, the one we had didn't fit.

Here is looking at it from the other side by the fire place.

Here is my kitchen this is the side that has all the cooking stuff. The stove is 21" wide by the way. All of my baking stuff fits in it except for on pampered chef pizza stone that I just bought last year :(

This is my kitchen from the other side, basically a view of my laundry area, allot of people have a hard time with the *small* washers here. I must have been given a larger one by the base because I don't have an issue with it, I can't wash blankets like my king sized washer in the states but it gets my clothes clean and that's what matters.

Here is the breakfast bar and drink station. The cabinet with the lock on it is the snack cabinet and it's the only one I have to keep locked or Olivia will tend to pour cereal all over LOL.

Here is the upstairs cloakroom and bathroom. The cloakroom has a toilet and sink, the bathroom has a bathtub and sink.

This is Olivia's Room.

This is the guest room, this is the only room in the house that is completely decorated (with the exception of needing a bed frame) mainly because Justin couldn't take most of his military stuff to work at this office so we had a surplus of things that just really did not fit in the rest of the house. If you ask him this is his room LOL, it's where he comes to get away and play his video games.

This is the hallway entering into the wing of the house we use for the Master suite. One of the minor drawbacks to this house is that it doesn't have a proper master bedroom and the bathroom with the shower and such is next to the two smallest bedrooms which are coming up. We decided to cope with it by using the whole section of the house as one large room cut into different sections. What you can see here is the dressing area, which is a very nice feature to have since you can't plug anything in in a bathroom here, there are no electric outlets in them (sometimes there is one for electric shavers). I think it was a law thought up by a man who was tired of all his wife's stuff on the bathroom vanity LOL. Anyway in this area is a vanity, a very small built in closet (one of three the other two are in Olivia and the guest rooms) a dresser and a built in cupboard with shelves (linen closet).

This is the big bathroom in the house. It's called a family bath. to the right and back a little is a large shower. The floors are radiant heat and we found out the radiant heat can be uncomfortable if turned up too high and you have wet feet :)

This is the fourth and smallest bedroom, right now it's kinda a catch all room-like my sewing room but neater. It has a wardrobe for my hangup clothes because the other closet is not big enough. We would like to make this a full on dressing room and/or use it as a nursery if/when we have another little one.

And this is the bedroom, nothing fancy literally a bed in a room. Not much room for anything else. We were hoping to be able to get a king bed when we moved so that our guest could have a queen bed to sleep on but there is no way that a king bed is going to fit in this room so if you come visit I will promise to make you a comfortable as possible.

And that's our house. Hope you enjoyed the tour.