From House to HOME!

So as I have mentioned before, Bryan and I got our keys to our new condo on June 1st. East week we progress on making it more and more like a home. Bryan spends many of his days off putting stuff together, putting stuff away, decorating and moving stuff in. He has worked so hard on trying to make our house a home...even though no one is living in it just yet. Here are some before and after photos to introduce you to our home. As you can tell, we still have quite a bit of work to do, but we are so thankful that the condition of our condo was better at move in than when we saw it for the first time. The owners put down new carpet, painted all the walls and cabinets and left the whole place super clean! What a blessing to not have to move into a "fixer upper" for our first home.

So after Bry and I put all this time and effort into our new place, we actually were able to entertain some guests for the first time. Our great friends (and my bridesmaids) Katie Johnson and Jennifer Draper and Katie's boyfriend Kyle came over to hang out at our new place!!! It was such a big deal getting snacks and drinks for this MAJOR EVENT! I told Bryan that we needed more food because Iwould be so embarrassed if we ran out of food (that's the Italian in me coming out). Even though we don't even have couches, we had a great time. I felt like we had finally arrived! All of a sudden, household chores were so much more fun...doing the dishes next to my future husband after our guests had left was a blast! Accidentally spilling water all over our kitchen floor and using all our kitchen towels to mop it up was so much fun! Doing a load of laundry the next day because well we used all of our towels was so rewarding because I knew Bryan would appreciate it! Life has gotten so much sweeter!Here is our dining room area (before our table)...check out that storage against the back wall!!! Love it!

Here is our bathroom

Here is one of the beautiful tables Bry refinished

This is our fabulous kitchen!

This is our hall way to our bedroom (to the right) and bathroom (straight ahead)


This is our bedroom...1 closet

2nd closet in our bedroom! 1 thing that is great about our place is the storage is FABULOUS! And a window to our patio.

Here is our dining area, looking into our kitchen. Thank you Bry for assembling this table for us!

Here is half of our patio


Here is the other half of our patio (before we fixed it up of course!)


Here is our living room (photo taken from the dining room area) Yep...that right there friends is my very own "christmas tree window!" I am very very excited about our bay window!