Today we picked up keys

WARNING: some of these pictures will be mind numbingly boring to many of you. But I also know that a certain few of you won't rest until you can see every square inch of the driveway and garage. So, without further ado...

The driveway as seen from our garage:


The garage. As you can see, it's a two car with ample room for storage, a freezer, indoor hockey arena...I'm sure we'll manage to do something with it. The big door behind the post is for humans, the small one off to the right is for our hobbit visitors.

THIS is the wall in our rec room.


When you walk into the recroom from the garage, you come into the right side (just beyond this closet. I'd remembered this room as being a bit bigger, but I thought it was carpeted. I'm glad it's lino - that suits using the room as a craft room very well (easy to clean up paint and chalk!) but I hope I can still put in some shelves and a counter for my own crafting.


Off even further to the right (West) is the guest bedroom. It's larger than it appears in this picture and will easily fit a queen bed and some furniture.



View of our yard to the East:

And to the West:

I walked out a bit further to see what the view was like. Not bad, eh?!

This is the view to the south/east from our hallway window: I'm sure eventually it will be covered in houses like the rest of BC, but for now it's really pretty.

Standing beside that window looking down to the recroom:

This is our kitchen and dining room just beyond: I love the round archways!


View into the living room from the kitchen.

View into the dining room from the kitchen.


This is the view from our dining room window (West):


An alternate view (East):
View into kitchen/pantry from the dining room:

Our lovely deck. Can't wait to find some chairs/table for it! (Did I mention it has direct gas hook up for the bbq?)


Another view of our fireplace. This and the secluded backyard (by townhouse standards) are what sold me on this house).

The Den. And kids. And Andrew.

Again with the den:


View from the stairs up to our bedrooms:


Tink's room:

Davey's room:
View from Davey's room:

Our room:

So far, I've decided we're painting the den and our bedroom. Eventually I will paint the main bathroom because it's cheaper to repaint it than buy new towels. Hmnn, but I know which one is more enjoyable...I may have to talk to my husband about that...and we'll paint our living room but probably not till the spring. So that's less challenging than I thought it would be. I'm bringing the kids bedding over tomorrow to make sure it goes with the room colours. Other than that, this house is in really good shape. Moving date July 30th!

While Waiting for the home inspection...

Here is the house. While it lacks a certain something in CURB appeal, there is definite potential here.


On the east side of the carport, there is about 20 feet more gravel driveway...room for a boat or RV ;)


Here's Andrew checking out the kitchen. That's an extra wide gas cooker with a built in grill for pancakes MNNNNNN

And from the other end...here's the eating area attached to the kitchen.

Step outside onto the covered patio....davey loved this feature.

The view down to the yard. That's an apple tree in the middle.

And the other half of the back yard.

The main bath.

The smaller of the two upstairs bedrooms.

And looking back to the closet.


The master bedroom.

And back in the front of the house, the living room.



Downstairs is another bedroom. That's a walk in closet on the far wall.


Here is the rec room downstairs.

And here I'm standing in the rec room looking back towards the bedroom. In between the room and the stairs is a little alcove that would be perfect for reading to the kids.

The laundry room. This opens out to the yard.

Another alcove.

Back towards the fourth "bedroom" which is more suited to an office.

Outside, the shed and neato cement block wall.

Andrew and Dave inspect the balcony.

The yard from the east.

Up towards the house and shed.

And the rear view of the house.