We made a couple of videos on Thursday that I just now had a chance to uploaad because we had internet set up at the house last night (yay!). So, here is the virtual walk-through that shows off the house sans furniture. Also keep in mind that we’ll be making some visual changes to wall colors and we are in the process of removing wall paper in the Library and Hall Bath. I think we have the colors mostly picked out and we’ll be staying within a nice family of earth tone colors. If you want to get an idea of what colors we’re considering, you can see them here:
The colors look a little different here than they do in person, but this gives you an idea of what we’re thinking (the second row) for most of the house. So, the massive de-wallpapering project has kept us busy most of the time we’ve been here but we also have had a chance to drive around the area to gain familiarity. It has been fun to see the city where we’re going to live and getting comfortable with the closest grocery stores, pharmacies, and fast food restaurants. We also took the time to drop by a Barnes and Noble last night to browse their magazine collection for ideas for the new house as far as decorating and tweaking things here and there. We have always loved spicing up a place and making it our own, so this house will be no exception to that. The nice thing is that the hardest / most expensive part has already been done for us with the bathrooms and kitchen remodeled and wonderful floors already in place. This time around, I think we’re going to get by with some simple elbow grease and paint colors to really make the house look fantastic. I can tell it is going to take some time for us to get used to “our house” being so large – we still feel like the house belongs to someone else and we’re just here doing a project to get rid of the wallpaper, so I hope that once our stuff arrives it really starts to settle in.
P.S. The Aveo is a rental car – I just kept putting it in the video because it’s so funny, not because it’s our new car. Didn’t want any rumors started so I figured I should clear that up.
I loved the video tour. Man, I’m not missing Fayetteville too bad, but now I want to plan a vacation to Houston. : ). I don’t know how we’d decide which room to stay in, though. Your house looks really great.
By: James on March 7, 2010
at 2:48 am
Glad you enjoyed it – I’m hoping to get a better video once we have our own stuff in the house too so then it will look more like our home and not just a giant empty house. Well, I suppose if you come to visit you can just flip a coin on what room to stay in – we may have to do the same thing ourselves!
By: nopockets on March 7, 2010
at 10:50 pm
James, you could stay in the one that faces the front of the house and Allison can stay in the one next to it and y’all can talk through the secret passageway in the closets. Problem solved. Buy plane tickets.
By: You know who I am.... on March 7, 2010
at 11:23 pm
True – that does solve the question of which room. By the way, we didn’t see the hole in the closets until the last minute walk-through and at first we couldn’t figure out why there was a hole in the closet wall. Then, I realized there was carpet on the other side so it must go into another closet. My guess was that kids wanted to have a secret passageway between the closets, since that is totally something I would have done as a kid. As it turns out, the two girls wanted to have a secret passageway between their rooms so the mystery was solved. How fun is that. Apparently, they had planned on actually adding a door but never got around to it so Jeremy will probably complete that. There is also a clubhouse in the attic of the garage as well – with an air conditioner and everything. Pretty fun stuff.
By: nopockets on March 8, 2010
at 12:03 pm