photos...

These are all pictures we took before we moved in...the house may not be any cleaner, but at least it's got our stuff in it!

We've done a lot since we moved in, taking out a few vastly overgrown juniper bushes (apologies to those who love them, but these were awful!), painting the house a more fifties shade of yellow, and taking that darn sign out of the yard, but here's the view from the street. The house is on about a half acre, so there's a lot of space front and back, plus five big trees (yay!) and myriad bushes. Josh's words to me after his inital driveby were "well, it's sure not plain jane!"


Here's a view of the living room (if you could look to the right you'd see the dining room). We loved the ceiling and paneling, but the stone fireplace and the big wall of windows really sold us on it. We could just imagine being back in Los Angeles, looking out at a pool and the city lights....well, maybe not. But at least we open the drapes. Those nasty things hadn't been pulled--or cleaned!--in years!




Here are two views of the kitchen...one from the entryway, the other from over by the fridge. If you looked right from the fridge, you'd see the laundry area and door to the backyard. We're trying to figure out what to do here. It seems like we're going to refinish the maple cabinets since they're so solid and were built on-site for the house (okay, okay, and it's cheaper than replacing them!), do new countertops and flooring, and replace the cooktop and oven with a gas range. The appliances are cool, but the stove is burning out one element at a time, and that oven gets so hot you can burn yourself walking by. Cool, but not functional. Anyone looking for matching electric Hotpoint cooktop and oven, stainless, vintage 1955?


And here's my favorite bathroom. Most of the fifties-seventies houses we saw had a teeny master bathrooms, but this one had a tub AND shower, plus gorgeous tile. This one is really my favorite, with the pink and brown...although its rarely this tidy :/
The powder room pink and black with a turquoise sink and toliet, while the downstairs bath is turquoise and black with a pink sink and toilet...and plastic tile. Hmmm. Oh, and each bath has a neat shower door...I'll have to post more photos :)