Basement and Back Yard

We have a LOT to do with our outdoors. I need to invest in a rake.

I love this table we lucked out on. We bought it from the couple who were here before us. They in turn bought it from an Amish Farm in Lancaster, PA. Its so beautiful.

the back of our little home.

lots and lots of leaves out there for you to rake, Scottie

the spring should be fun to pot different color flowers and different sized pots. :)

Details

these HUGE double doors behind our couch are amazing. They are heavy thick wood and in the early 1900's they must have kept them open to their parlor room. Since that is now the main house communal hallway we keep them closed and they make a beautiful backdrop on our wall.

i love the molding on the ceiling in our bedroom

creepy eh? I found this in one of the doors with a peg in it. Its an old peep hole! Those are the glass double doors to our row home. There are about 4 units on the entire house. We have the first two levels. I can spy on the others. I love that!

We'll keep truckin' on empty'ing boxes and you can keep up with my pics. Hope you like! :)

Little By Little

Our place is coming together.

Here are some pics of the far side of our family room.

this is our music poster wall. (radiohead, arcade fire and ghostland observatory)

we LOVE these old shutters and love looking out our window onto such a pretty street in Fitlers.

over sized print we found in our old hood for $20. Amazing how your stuff looks so different in a new place.

I think we're progressing pretty great on the decorating. More boxes tonight. :)

Fire Places and New Digs

What to do with un-working fire places? I guess decorate them!

make shift book case. I'm not burning them, promise.

those are light bulbs.

We just moved into a GREAT new place in Philadelphia. Its a bi-level row home that was built in 1891! Pretty awesome! Its old, its full of unique architecture and its ours (to rent). This is our third move in less than three years. We still can't believe it, but, if you don't like something, change it... right? We lived in a sketchy part of the city and I wanted out... so we got out. I'm now in yupville and couldn't be happier. :)

There's also an awesome pizza place right up the street. You could say that Im in heaven. Pizza, great place... now all I need is a pup and Kirbs and I will be SET!

Special thanks to Tom who came up and provided some moving muscle. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I'm sorry we didn't get to go to Doobey's. We did make up a sweet pubbie song as well as get a personal call at the Dollar General. hehe!

I'll post more pics as we set up. There's so much to do!

Before and After

Before I decided it was time to clean up my stupid closet. 

 

AFTER I decided to finally sit down and clean my awesome closet: 

We travel a lot and putting away my shoes after an unpack is just unfathomable to me. So I typically just throw them in the general direction of my side of the closet. SOOOO... now that they are organized and all put together I realize that... I don't have enough SHOES! 

Hey Huzbo, go to zappos.com or endless.com or better yet...  

just gimme your creddy card. 

LOVE YOU!

just a taste

Here's a photo of our dining room/living room area. Aren't those blue lights awesome? I'm a fan when I don't hit my head on them. We still have a lot of work to do, but its coming along little by little. 

Here's a close up of the bookshelf. I have some more work to do on the third shelf, its a work in progress. And yes, the walls are pink. Your eyes are not deceiving you but we wish they were deceiving us. 

*sigh*

We are awaiting confirmation from our landlord to see if we can paint them. They really are peptobismol pink. How did we MISS THAT when we looked at the place?

Little by little we are getting there! Almost, Home Sweet Home.