More New House Pictures--on the Inside

By request, here are pictures from the inside of our new house.  It is such an upgrade from living in a single wide that I'm not sure my brain can really wrap around it yet!  I'm trying not to get too excited about the wide open spaces inside the house, because I remember how much bigger our current tiny place looked with nothing in it, but having an upstairs area for the kids and a basement is a big enough improvement that it should all work out great, no matter how exactly we fill the house.

This is my small, but bigger than current, kitchen.  There is no dishwasher, which will be an adjustment, but there doesn't appear to be any critters, which is a major plus!  The counters, cabinetry, and plumbing all looks new as well.  I love the retro flooring as well!

This is the dining room.  It is huge in my eyes, about the size of our current living room.  I'm sure it will shrink a lot when I have our small chest freezer, hutch, homeschooling shelf, and table for six in it.  This is the view looking from the living room, toward the kitchen.  The shut door off to the right leads to the upstairs, which will be the children's domain.

And this is the living room.  I am so excited that there should be enough room for the couch, love seat, and coffee table and still have enough room to move around them!

This is our bedroom.  It's considerably smaller than what we have now, but with all the extra room in the rest of the house, I doubt I'll miss the space!

This is the mudroom, right inside the front door.  I doubt we'll use the front door much, except to get the mail (how awesome is that that our mailbox isn't a quarter mile away?), but I'm very excited that there is a designated area for coats, shoes, and all that nonsense that we've always kind of tripped over all over for the past couple years!

Our Michigan basement won't house some of the projects I'd been toying with, like a full blown garden with grow lights (which might attract the wrong sort of attention from the police anyway), but will be adequate for storage and as emergency shelter in severe weather, something I've sorely missed the past eight years that I've been living in a trailer!

This was taken from the stairs, peering into the children's domain of upstairs.  There's a large common area here, which will be the playroom and toy storage area.  There is also a common closet that they will share for hanging clothes (of which they don't have many, so that's okay). 

This is one of the two bedrooms upstairs.  The only difference between the two is which side the window is on, so of course the children are already arguing over which set of kids, the boys or the little ones, gets which room!  Kids!

So that's pretty much it.  That's the grand tour.  I didn't show you the bathroom, since you don't need to use it, being on the other side of the internet (and if you came over, it's impossible to miss just inside the back door, where everyone would come in), but it is a pretty good sized room that has a stacked washer and dryer, cabinets for towels (a first for our living spaces, like, ever) and bathtub with a sliding glass door in addition to the "necessaries".

This is going to be so much nicer than trailer living!  And once we get moved in, inside and out, I'll announce the name of the new homestead!