Welcome Home!

I cannot begin to tell you how many houses we looked at after we sold our old house.  Our Realtor was great and was able to point out all the bad things about each house.  We decided to build because it would be so much easier since we couldn't find anything we liked.  Our Realtor came to help us look at the last 10 houses on our list before we signed on the dotted line to build.  We had 2 houses left to go and we were frustrated.  Nothing looked even "okay."  We knew what we wanted and we weren't finding it.  I had to leave to pick Cooper up from school so Nick stayed with Shelley (our Realtor) to look at the last 2.  I got a call saying "I found our house."  Right.  After picking Cooper up we drove to the house Nick, Shelley and Wyatt was at.  I drove up and thought "its okay."  We opened the front door and HOLY COW.  Its exactly what I wanted.  And its what Nick wanted (and let me make sure you understand neither of us like the same things...ever).  As I walked in my mouth dropped to the floor.  Each room I walked into got better and better.

The home builders were transferred to Seattle.  They had build this home as their forever home, but had to leave it only 3 years after it was built.  It was empty and calling our names.  We walked through it the one time and said "this is it."  We had some crazy things happen while buying it (another lady was trying to get it at the same time...but we won!!!!).

We closed on the house November 9th, 2012.  Welcome to our home :)

Front door

Front Hallway.  Picture taken from standing as if we just walked in the front door.  There is a hallway to the left that has a spare bathroom, laundry room, and downstairs spare bedroom.  The office is directly to the right. The dining room is the cutout on the right.  Straight up at is the living room (where the windows are).  The kitchen is to the right of the windows.

Office

Dining Room

Kitchen nook.

Kitchen

Family room

Master bedroom

Master closet

Master bathroom

Master bathroom

Garage with stained concrete floor

Downstairs spare bedroom

Downstairs spare bathroom

Upstairs gameroom.  Directly to the left is a porch but I don't have a good picture of it, oops!

Upstairs hallway.  All 3 upstairs bedrooms and the upstairs spare bathroom is off this area.  I'm taking the picture leaving the gameroom.

Coopers bedroom.  It is now a medium orange color.  Its awesome.

Jack and Jill bathroom as you leave Coopers bedroom.  It is now a bright aqua blue.  Whale theme. The door behind me (taking the picture) is a full storage about all 3 car garage spaces.  Its HUGE.

Boys bathroom shower/toilet.  Shared.

Wyatts bathroom nook.  It is now John Deere Green.  WOW.

Wyatts bedroom.  It is now chocolate brown.

Upstairs spare bedroom.  This will become my craft room.

Spare bathroom upstairs

Backyard:

A little about our house.  We live in Lantana, TX.  It is one big neighborhood.  Lantana (the city in which we live) is one neighborhood... that's it!  We have 2 elementary schools and one middle school in the neighborhood (they are about to build a third elementary school though).  All are rated "exemplary".  Our HOA covers the lawn maintenance (all weeding, moving, edging, trimming of shrubs, etc of the front yards.  The neighborhood wants every house to have good front yards and look good so they take care of every single house making sure we all look the same and good).  It also covers the security system in our homes, basic cable/phone/tv, all gyms and workout centers located in the neighborhood, all 5 pool and water-parks in the neighborhood...  Its amazing.  Lantana has been voted people's choice community every single year for the past 4 years.  I love it here!