The Bailey Family: More house

So people were complaining that I did not put good enough pictures on the blog of the house... so here are a few more.

I will start with the yard since that is were we have done the most work. I mean real heavy duty work. The are we live is known for their rocks. Make two new flower beds and turning some good soil into all the other beds gave us at least 20 five gallon buckets full of rocks! Not to mention the 1 - 2 foot boulders we were pulling out either. Besides the rocks we pulled out huge railway ties. They had them all over the yard. They were 6-8 feet long and pounded in with re-bar it was awful. Caleb did not want to deal with taking them out but I hated them so much that I just went out and pulled them all out by myself while he was at work and could not argue. Yeah I am nuts but I love my yard now so it was worth it.

So this is what it looked like before. I hate wood chips, especially by my back door where Joshua liked to dig and track them all over my kitchen. Also the railway tie dividing the wood chips from the porch was raised about five inches. So Joshua and Caleb and I tripped and hurt ourselves several times.

This is what it looks like now. I planted star jasmine to climb the fence and am going to palnt ground cover between all the stepping stones.

This is our kitchen garden, basically just herbs some tomatoes and peppers, which grow all year round here!

We added a peach, naval orange, meyer lemon, apricot, and liquid amber tree. I also have honey suckle, boston ivy, and morning glory climbing the fence. My goal is to not be able to see any fence in a year.

We have a nice lawn for the kids which we actually extended by shortening the porch a little and using the pavers to connect the back door to the porch. It is so much cleaner and greener. I love it.

Inside we have not done much besides decorate. I am going to start painting this week. This is our kitchen. The walls all over the house are going to be a light yellow and I am planning on painting the cupboards white as soon as possible. But I love the size an lay out it works great for us.

This is our staircase, entry, and living room. It has really high ceilings. The whole house has a very open light feeling. I love the floors. Again the walls will be yellow and all the wood white.

Joshua's room is scary! It is going to be painted Martha Stewart lemongrass and white trim. It is a really pretty green color. This is the first room to be painted.

This is our family room. Last week we finally got couches. I got black leather couches! Yeah I know not what most people would pick for me but I wanted the, to be stain proof and durable. We found them on craigslist for super cheap, and the next day I was walking through target and found a perfect picture table for the corner on clearance! I was so excited. But it was still not looking "me" enough so I decided it needed some black and white pillows to soften and warm them up so....

Before and...

After...

We have had some really cold weather...well cold for us 60 degrees and raining! Anyway we lit a fire in our fireplace. It works great and makes the family room so cozy, and warms the whole house.

And the ugly blue lazy boy in the picture above now looks like this. I have always wanted to recover and finally just went ahead and did it the other night. I am going to recover the lamp shade and make matching curtains for the window as well.

Last but not least this is my view out my bedroom window. We do live in a tract so we see other houses, but I also see some beautiful mountains and sunsets. Also in the neighborhood we have a private pool and park that we use regularly.