Our New Home

Here are a few pictures of our new home.  This house is several hundred square feet smaller than our home in Grand Rapids, but what it lacks in size it makes up for with some really cool features that are commonly found in houses over 100 years old - like ours!

First of all, our house has four fireplaces.  Not all of them are operational, and we're treating all of them as decorative until we get a chimney specialist to come out & let us know our options.

One of the other neat features we have is a pocket door that separates our living room from the hallway/entryway.  It needs a little TLC, but once the old paint is stripped off it should look pretty nice.

Our kitchen is atypical for a house this old, because it has an open wall that looks out into the dining room & a sitting room.  This was a modification, since what is now our kitchen was, back in the day, the back porch!  The owners who originally added the kitchen were really thinking when they made the kitchen with an open plan - it makes it look and feel much bigger than it actually is.

Our back yard is pretty small - much to Rick's delight.  And we have a deck off the kitchen (snow-covered at the moment!) that we're looking forward to using a lot as we continue our tradition of summer backyard cookouts.  Rick already has his eye on his choice for our new grill!  Michelle, on the other hand, has dreams of spending relaxing evenings on the front porch. . . maybe on a porch swing??!

Well, that's the basics of our new home.  It has 3 bedrooms & a bathroom upstairs, an attic, and a basement that has a cement/dirt floor and houses our washer & dryer.  Not elaborate, but it's home and is all set to host YOU when you come for a visit!