Tour Our Bungalow

At barely 1000 square feet, our current home can be described as cozy. It's like a well-worn shoe that knows the contours of your foot, but the foot has kept growing and the shoe is getting uncomfortably snug. The original portion of the house, built in the early 1900's, is only about 600 square feet. More recently, a back porch was remodeled to add an extra 400 square feet of living space. This space is currently our dining room. The layout is very convenient and open, making the house feel bigger than what it is. But with only two smallish bedrooms for six people, this calls for some creativity in arranging things. There are two dressers squeezed into the boys' room, three in ours, and the standard-sized closets are literally stacked to the ceiling with stuff. Bunk beds are essential, and we recently had to upgrade the boys to a double-over-double bunk bed with a pull-out trundle bed underneath. Rearranging furniture is out of the question, unless it's a "six inches to the left" kind of move. I have given away kitchen supplies and other perfectly good things for lack of space to store them. It works...though not ideal. And no, we do not have an upstairs or a finished basement (we get these questions often).

The side yard, which is essentially our back yard, garden behind the garage, and front door (which faces north). It's a double corner lot.

The street side of the house and back door. There's a rock walkway between the house and garage that serves as a path to the garden and yard (and composter).

Disclaimer: a few of these photos were taken last summer when the house was in "company condition", not the "lived in condition" of everyday life. They weren't updated for this post because the rooms either look exactly the same yet or are in some state of dishevelment. My goal for this blog is to "keep it real", and since I also occasionally share "real life" photos of the house, I need these nice photos to balance it out a bit...and proof that I do pick up once in a while. ;)

View of dining room from the back door

View of dining room from the kitchen

Dining room, looking toward the back door. Curtains on laundry closet are closed when company's here....

Entryway by back door, basement door on right

Dining room

Bathroom

Bathroom

The kitchen is right in the middle of the house; you have to walk through it to get from one end to the other.

Kitchen

Kitchen, looking into living room

Kitchen

Kitchen, looking at the back door in dining room. And a bearded beast.

Kitchen

Living room, looking into kitchen. Dots all over the wall to the left mark where I spackled nail holes from my gallery wall, yet to be repainted.

Living room, looking through kitchen and dining room. Boys' room door is behind the TV.

Living room, facing the porch door and our bedroom door on the left

Boys' Room

Boys' room

Boys' room

In the boys' closet

Our room

  Our room

 Our room

Front Porch

And that concludes the tour.