The Allisons

I know there are a few people who have been anxiously waiting to see pictures of our new house. I wanted to wait until all the clutter was gone and everything had found a permanent home. HOWEVER, I've come to realize that it may never get to a point where I could post pictures of a perfect house. I have two children after all...


At this point, there is still clutter, but I feel like that's still well within my rights, having only been occupying the house for less than 3 weeks. If I waited too much longer and there was still clutter, I'm not sure I would have much of an excuse. So here it is; for better or worse.







This is the house from the street. It's a duplex, but all of what you see here is ours. You can't really tell, but the driveway is a steep incline down to the garage. This is from the street looking at our front door. The triangle window is the 1/2 bath, the square window on the left is the kitchen, and the 2nd floor windows are for our bedroom. I especially like the long, up and down window. Skyla loves to lay on the floor and look out the bottom window at the street.



This is ALL of our backyard. The end of the pic on the right and left is where the fences are. Skyla is standing on the patio, and then the rest is grass. It's tiny, but just big enough for Skyla to do her business, and for Ezra to run around in the sun a bit. That is, if it will ever be sunny in this place...

This is just a little piece of the yard that goes down the side of the house to the garage.





If you are walking in the front door, the 1/2 bath is on the right (opposite in the picture), and the kitchen in on the left. As you keep walking straight, the dining room is on the left after the kitchen, (there is a wall separating them), and the stairs are on the right. Then still walking straight, you would go down 3 steps into our living room.



This is our 1/2 bath with the triangle windows. Kind of quirky huh? I love that they even open.

This is our kitchen. We have 3 little pieces of counter space. We are using our tiny German fridge, and put our American fridge in the basement. BUT, there is a dish washer! Hooray for dishwashers!!

On the right is the dining room. There is a 1/2 wall separating the dining room from the sunken living. And our scary stairs are on the left (in the picture). If you thought our stairs in Italy were bad... Also, you will notice a pile of clutter that is waiting to be loaded up and donated, and our coats that don't have anywhere to go yet. Downstairs is the guest bedroom/bath and laundry room. Upstairs are the bedrooms.





This is the living room. The top left pic is taken from the stairs. You can see through the big, double, glass doors to the backyard. Skyla ran smack into the doors, her first night here. Ha, ha. They were very clean...



The couches are on the left and the computer desk and TV(s) are on the right. Yes, we bought a new TV which is atop the entertainment center for now, because someone (Mike) just couldn't wait until Christmas to play with his toy. So we need to sell the other TV and entertainment center. You can also see the stairs that go up to the dining room. Also notice Jonas in his swing and Ezra on the beanbag watching Baby Einstein. :)

This is the laundry room with our FULL SIZE washer and dryer! Yea! Not only are the full size, but we can run them at the same time without blowing a circuit. Hooray!


This is the final frontier: the guest bedroom. It still needs a little work. But have no fear, it will be in perfect order by the time we have our first guests. It even has an attached bathroom. Yea! And a closet? Well, kind of. It has rods to hang things in a little alcove. No door though. Also, even though it's in the basement, it has a window. This is the view. Ivy covered bricks and the snow-laden evergreens in the front yard. Interesting huh?


















Now back upstairs to the bedrooms. This is the master. Don't you love the windows? We are not, however, crazy about the sloped ceiling. Our bed has to go there, because there's obviously no way a dresser would fit, but we have both bumped our head on more than one occasion. I think we're getting used to it though.


Down the hallway to the kid's rooms. Ezra's is the one straight ahead and the bathroom and Jonas' room is on the left, just around that corner.


This is the bathroom with more triangle windows. I don't know if you can tell in the pics, but the ceiling slopes down on either side of the bath, right above the two shelves. I also like that you can sit on either side of the bath. I like the bathroom because it feels like I'm inside a star. Mike isn't such a fan, because he feels like he's going to bump his head (even though he hasn't yet...). There is a seperate shower, and double sinks (Mike's isn't pictured--it's on the other side of the door on the left--which also isn't pictured).

This is Jonas' room. Ezra passed down his old furniture. It will be a lot cuter, now that we can order all his puppy dog stuff to decorate.
This is Ezra's room, with the valence that is ridulously too small for the window, but I insist on putting up anyway.


Well, that's pretty much the house. There's an attic, but that's pretty unremarkable so I'll spare you a picture. One last picture of the kiddos. I just spoiled the cuteness of the Christmas cards, for those of you that will be receiving one. Although this picture isn't on there, this is what they are wearing.