Renee Stelle: Our House - Main Floor Pics

Finally, here are some house pictures as promised....

DINING ROOM:

We bought the white cabinet to hold more dishes (we have so many). It was originally tucked between the pole and the wall on the right side (fit perfectly there) but we had to move it to add the little cabinet which came from above the old stove. We ended up putting up a coat rack beneath the cabinet and it's perfect.

KITCHEN:

As promised, the former owner replaced the old broken black dishwasher with a new white one before we moved in.

We bought the kitchen island so we could have more workspace and storage space and we absolutely love it. We are going to buy 2 stools for it (it's made for them) when they go on sale this fall.

We had the old fashioned (and messed up) black oven/range replaced for a nice smooth surface white oven/range with a matching over-the-range microwave. In order to accomodate the microwave, the cabinet had to be removed and a smaller one put in it's place (and that one still had to be inched up a little to allow for the safe distance between it and the range top). Luckily we found the same style cabinet in a smaller size at Lowe's (the others were installed 3 years ago). Instead of throwing out the old cabinet we had it moved it to the dining room. Back when we were looking to buy the house, we happened to meet the guys who were in charge of the 2003 rebuilding. We hired one of them to do all these oven and cabinet changes for us. He did a great job and we've since hired him and his partner to build us a fence, etc (more on that in another post).

LIVING ROOM:

The Christmas lights are still a work in progress. One of our strings doesn't work anymore (stopped working just before we moved) so we need to find a matching replacement and then we will wrap the lights around the overhead beams on both sides. We like that lighting better for times we are not reading and don't need bright lights.

Yes, we managed to put Craig's tie dye up again in the living room. :)

Oh, how do you like our new couch and matching chair? They are that easy to clean microfiber stuff. We love them! They match the carpet almost perfectly (didn't realize they would) but it doesn't really bother me.