I realized that I never posted pictures of where we are living now. Originally upon moving to KC, we lived in an apartment on the seminary campus. I posted pics of that precious, miniature apartment when we first got here :) Oh, and how did we get to five homes? Well, the "bat" house we rented in Ramsey, the house we bought in Ramsey, upstairs apartment on campus, downstairs apartment on campus and number 5 - the duplex. Wow!
In December (I know that was 5 months ago!), we couldn't take the 700 square foot apartment anymore! Well, maybe I couldn't take it but friends, coming from a 1400 square foot 3-bedroom, 2 bath home...with a giant kitchen, garage, shed, yard....ohhhhhh, I still miss our house SO much! :( Anyway, I refused to cook and/or bake in our apartment because the small kitchen stressed me out so much. And if you know me, you know that's a big deal because I love to bake!!!!
BUT, back to the point, we moved into a duplex about 15 minutes campus right before Christmas and jetting off to El Salvador. In all the hustle and bustle, I must have forgotten to post pictures. We spent the last two days doing lots of rearranging and organizing on the main floor of the duplex. Why you ask? Well, sometimes I tend to dream a little big. I sort of figured we would be able to move (again?) after just living here a year, which would be in December. Fortunately, by December, we will have a much better financial picture, but we won't be quite ready buy a house. So, I have come to the realization that we'll be here for probably another year and a half or so. Might as well make the space like home then, huh? We have 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, as of right now 2 living rooms (one which would become an office/guest room if a baby ever lives here with us!) and a garage. Our garage is currently filled with boxes from organizing the storage area in the basement. Oh, did I mention we have a washer and dryer too? Oh, that apartment...I am just not cut out for seminary life, not a good seminary wife!!!!
The only negative to the duplex is that it's on 4 levels. Lots of steps! The main level houses living room number 1 (which before yesterday was a dining room with a couch in it) and the kitchen. Go upstairs to the two bedrooms and one bathroom. Down from the main level is the garage and living room number 2 (we'll call that the "man cave") and then down a few more steps from that is a storage area, nook area (which I use as a home for my jewelry business), bathroom and laundry area. There are many people near and around us that have families in the duplex...our shared-wall neighbors have two kids and just down the street is a family with 3 children. Once again, I don't know how they do it! It could be a possibility that we may have one kiddo here (no, not anytime soon) but we'll see. I would really like to own a home again in the near-ish future!
Anyway...here's some pictures...(I wish I had before pictures for you!)
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| This is what you see when walking in the front door. Living room #1. |
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| You can barely see a light hanging in the left corner...that's where our kitchen table used to be. This is the other half of the room pictured above. Now we've turned the area into a library, if you will. Still searching for a round storage ottoman to go under the light (those suckers are expensive!) |
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| View from kitchen into living room #1. You can barely see the pallet housing pictures on the far wall. Another one of my favorite things in the house! |
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| The kitchen is much bigger than the apartment, but still not huge. Especially with the table in it now! |
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| Other half of the kitchen. That giant white wall is begging for something on it! |
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Where we spend most of our time, in front of the TV! Until yesterday, the coffee table was where that cute little bench is. The bench takes up SO much less space, really opening the room up. This room also houses Luke's football and baseball jersey's on the walls, along with lots of sports memorabilia. There's even a sign that says "Stadium Entrance" above the entry. A "man cave" I suppose. This is the room that could potentially be a bedroom (although there is no closet).
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Well, there's a few pictures. Our bedroom is pretty well put together, but I would have to make the bed in order to post a picture and I don't really feel like doing that! :) The guest bedroom/office needs some serious decorating help, but we'll get there. I really do like the duplex. The location is great: 7 minutes from OG, about 10 from Dick's Sporting Goods, 3 minutes from Target, 3 minutes from Hy-Vee, 10 minutes from Zona Rosa, 5 minutes from church, and about 1 minute from the hospital! Really, a good location - unless ambulances annoy you, because we do hear those often. I am happy to say we'll live here for a while longer - our landlords are a super cute, nice older couple as well. And we have plenty of room to house visitors here..... :)
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