We bought a house.

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I mentioned in the other thread that we were closing on a house back in April. The buying process ended up going pretty smoothly, and now my S/O and I own a house. Its the first house both of us have bought. 

We moved in back in May and have been slowly unpacking and getting things how we want them. We were going to have company this weekend but they ended up not coming, but the house was all cleaned up for them, so I figured it was a good time to snap some pictures to share. 

Also there are two holes in the downstairs ceiling due to some unforeseen plumbing issues (A hairline split in the drain pipe coming off one of the upstairs showers was leaking and screwing up the drywall), but I have mostly hidden them via camera angle. Allow me to take you on a tour: 
(Also if any of you find yourself needing to spend the night in southeastern Georgia, we've got you covered)

Front porch area. It's not quite as glamorous as the old 1910s house we were renting with the big wrap-around porch, but it'll do. Also the birds will eat through nearly a full tube of sunflower seeds every day, so I only fill it up now about once every other day. 

The cactus corner of the front porch: 

The front hall. You can see the holes from the plumbing incident in the top left. I am the least handy person in the entire world, so my S/O is in charge of fixing them. She's measured the shape and cut the replacement drywall pieces out, I am mostly helping by cleaning up after and voicing encouraging words: 

The (formal) living room. We mostly use it for drinking coffee and bird watching. We got one of those bird watching spotting books and leave it on the coffee table.

Living room from another angle. Notice the lazy tail-less cat: 

The antique radio corner of the living room: 

The fainting couch corner of the living room: 

The pitcher and jug section of the living room: 

I start every morning with coffee and stare out this window. It's not the worst way to greet the day: 

This section is technically meant to be the dining room, but we don't need all that space, so my S/O uses it as her office area: 

Looking back from her office to the living room: 

The kitchen. I don't know how to describe the color, it's like a mix between sea-foam green and mint green, but I really dig it.

Fun story about this fridge -- when we first looked at the house, there was no ice in the ice maker, which we just assumed was because they left it turned off. The owners had already moved out and bought another house. We moved in, turned the ice maker on, and nothing. Could not figure out what the issue was. Finally scooted the fridge away from the wall and discovered there is no water line. The previous owners bought a fridge with an automatic ice maker without the ability to use an automatic ice maker. 

The breakfast nook area that we use as our main dining room: 

The TV room/den. My favorite room in the whole house. It's super cozy for reasons that will be clear in a second: 

The fireplace is what really makes this room cozy, I think. I am really excited for when it's cool enough to use this thing, which considering it's south Georgia, will be late November: 

The cat's designated area behind the couch where it watches the birds all day long: 

We got this old coffee table at a thrift store for $20, sanded it down and painted it red to put the TV on: 

Off of the kitchen, there's a "Florida room." Or at least that's what I grew up calling them. Closed-in yet non-air-conditioned back porch rooms with a bunch of windows. You know what I'm talking about: 

The "Florida room" has a window-unit AC but we pretty much never use it unless company come over for the pool and it ends up storming so we need somewhere to hang out: 

Speaking of, we have a pool: 

And a little back patio area: 

A fine place to enjoy a left-handed cigarette in the evenings: 

My flowers: 

Back in the house, up the stairs now. We've talked about repainting these, but we both really like how the paint has worn away. It makes the whole thing look, I dunno, well-worn in a good way I guess is the only way to describe it: 

The guest bedroom: 

The guest bedroom again. The bedrooms are all upstairs, and they are all on the small size, so I am super glad our big dumb antique guest bedroom furniture fit. I felt so bad for the movers. 

Get out of here you're not part of the tour: 

Guest bathroom, which is also the bathroom my S/O has claimed as hers because it's way bigger than the master bath: 

The master bedroom. That accent wall is turquoise, for some reason my camera makes it look blue: 

The other side of the master bedroom. It has his-and-hers closets, one way bigger than the other. I got the smaller one: 

The master bathroom, which is mine because it's very tiny. One of the things I don't love about the house is that both of the bathrooms have Bath Fitter showers, and because the master bath started as a smaller walk-in shower, now it's comically small: 

My office, which is decorated with all the paintings my S/O does but doesn't like quite enough to hang in the rest of the house or give to people as gifts. It's the island of misfit paintings: 

More of my office/art gallery: 

I'm trying to beat Secret of Mana this summer and so far it's not going well: 

Well, that's pretty much it. The only parts not shown are the garage, because it's currently a disaster, and the downstairs half-bathroom, because it's just a toilet and it's too small to get a good photo of. Although in the half-bath, I did hang a gigantic blown up framed photo I took in Death Valley earlier this year, so you get to stare at the desert while pooing. 

And that's the tour -- $176k and 30 years of mortgage payments. It's our first home. 

Edited by agentwhale007 - 06 July 2019 at 8:00pm