The unveiling!

Man, I haven't updated my blog for a while! Here are a few interior pics of the house. I don't want to put a ton on here because I am a little paranoid- so if you really want to see it, give me a call and come on out!!! I think we will have an open house after we get a sidewalk put in (it is going to be soo muddy once everything starts to melt). This is the living room (upper left) and the dining section of the kitchen. I found this table at St. Vincent de Paul in Pocatello for $20. It was hideous when I bought it- Seth complained to me about bring home junk again- and it sat in the 3rd stree garage for almost 1 year. Sethro helped me sand the old finish off so we could start fresh and now, it looks like a custom table! The wood grain is beautiful. It even has two leaves (that I still need to finish) to go with it! Our chairs are miss matched- but hopefully, I will be able to refinish them this weekend. They will all be re-upholstered and painted. The pink chairs are antiques- they are the Mr. and Mrs. chairs from our wedding.


This is the entryway- I just finished putting the clavos (little metal pieces) on the front door this weekend. The chandelier was given to me by a lady at a local thrift store. It was really funny- she told me that she had thrown this gawdy thing out in the alley hoping someone would steal it and think they found something sweet, but no one had taken it yet. This is one of my treasures! It is SO heavy. I had new glass cut for the panes and cleaned all 50 or 60 years worth of dust off of it so it could garnish the front room. I plan to make this room my antique collectible room. I will have to get a pic of the antique pie safe I received for Christmas. I recently refinished it as well, now we just need to move it upstairs into this room! The picture on the right is the other half of the kitchen. I absolutely LOVE my kitchen! It is my favorite room in the house. The large windows give the best natural light, the cabinets turned out perfectly, and we finally compromised on a floor that pulls all of the different wood colors together.

Eddy Hansen, our neighbor when we lived in the old house, is a metal artist and he created this piece for our banister. We gave him a picture of our house and a picture of the mountain range behind our house and he put it together to give us this awesome custom banister. All the construction guys (Seth, Jared, and Steve) were really skeptical of me using 6x6 timbers for the newel posts and top rail, but it came together nicely. My initial idea was to pull the timber entrance into the house by incorporating the timbers inside (the column entrance, the mantel, and the banister). I had to remind Sethro to trust my judgement several times in the past year!

Here is the main bathroom. I love having two bathrooms! Now we don't have to race to the throne when we get home:). The granite in this room is my favorite piece in the whole house. There is so much contrast and the quartz pieces are HUGE! Love it!


So, now yall have an inkling of what the inside of our home looks like. I know the walls are bare, but I plan to take my time decorating. Plus, my cash reserves are a little damaged:). I will try to keep updated, now that we have the internet again!!! Woo HOO!