Warning! Our house is in shambles and we have no furniture
so these pictures will definitely be the before pictures and I will take more
when we get settled in and we get our stuff back sometime in September.
One of my favorite rooms in this house is the kitchen. I
love the windows that look into the backyard. The oven and stove (or hob as
they call it) was a little difficult to figure out and the oven is in Celsius
so that will be fun to learn J
The fridge, freezer and dishwasher all look like the cabinets which I really
like too. We do have the tiniest fridge and freezer though. They hold
nothing….I guess on the upside though we will never forget leftovers in the
back of the fridge and things won’t go bad! The oven is also a double oven but
the two parts of the oven are very tiny and it should really just be one big
oven. Definitely not fitting a turkey in that think for thanksgiving, I guess
Matt will have to deep fry one.
Most kitchens in
Europe have the washer and dryer in the kitchen. Thank goodness ours does not!
I am so excited we have an actual laundry room!! (still waiting for a washer and dryer haha)
I LOVE our backyard. It is enclosed on every end so no one
can really see in and it is actually pretty big in size. I can’t wait to get
our fire pit out there and enjoy some of the colder weather around the
fire. There is also a close line that
came with the house. I had no idea what it was in the yard and Matt got a laugh
out of that one! Not many outside clothes line in northern Virginia J The other side of the
backyard I would love to get a standing hammock to enjoy in the summer (so
crossing my fingers we can find a cheap one!) The little coves in the brick
wall I want to try and put flowerpots in for next summer.
We have three bathrooms and one is a half bath on the first
floor next to the kitchen. (Side note: there were no mirrors that came with
this house! Matt and I are sharing a little 4inch mirror right now that we
bough) Need to find some mirrors to hang up!
Here is a picture of our hallway. I love the little part
under the stairs and I also love our front door and the flowers on the glass.
We have three bedrooms in the house and one is downstairs on
the same floor as the living room and kitchen. For now we will make this room
the study.
We have a pretty big living room so it will fit our
sectional couch! Wahoo! (I have heard of people having to selling their couches
when they get here and can’t fit them in their house or even get them through
the door way.) Luckily we have two huge doors that lead out to our backyard from
the living room that the movers can use to get our couch in.
The other two bedrooms and bathroom are upstairs. Currently
one if being used as a storage unit for all of Matt’s stuff. Both the bedrooms
are the same size but one has a bigger closet.
This bedroom will be the guest bedroom for when you all come
visit J
(so Kate this will be your room! Haha) The closet is smaller because of the hot
water tank and this closet will be Matt’s closet. A lot of houses here don’t have any closets
so we are pretty lucky we have two.
The bathrooms here are very different. The shower in the
guest room has this screen you pull across the shower (no shower curtain) but
it only can fit part way so water can get out and the slant of the wall doesn’t
give you much room to shower. There are also no outlets in any of the
bathrooms! I was completely shocked and kind of confused haha. I guess I will
be blow-drying my hair in the bedroom.
The last room is our bedroom (we have a nice fancy blow up
mattress to sleep on) We are getting a lot of great sleep on that baby, NOT! I
love how big the closet is in this room and sadly I will need to whole thing
for all my stuff (I need to simplify my life ASAP) One thing about living in
here I have realized we have way too much stuff as Americans. These houses have
no storage places or closets (we have no linen closet) and I realized if they could
get by without all that junk why do we need it? Luckily we have a garage that
will become our storage unit instead of putting a car in. There are a lot of
things we brought (since we thought we were going to Alaska) that I know won’t
work over here like our treadmill and sadly our kegerator (CRYING!!)
Lastly our bathroom has just a shower and what I love about
the bathrooms are the skylights that open up
but it also makes it inconvenient to put a
mirror anywhere. I will let you know when I figure that one out.
Both bathrooms upstairs have these towel warming racks,
haven’t tried it yet but excited for the winter time to get out of the shower
and have a freshly warmed towel waiting for me! Haha
Side note: One thing we learned quickly after not having
water for our first day was that you have to program the heat and water to come
on during certain times of the day. You schedule times for it to go on and off
when you know you will be taking a shower or need the heat turned on. Its all
part of that efficiency thing over here J
And all the outlets have switches on them so you have to turn them on and off
when you use them. They really should have a learner’s book for Americans when
moving into these houses! There you have it our new home! Can’t wait for all
our friends and family to come visit J
I promise I will have the house more put together by then and we will have
actually couches and beds for everyone!
