The Winskyes in Paradise: Our New House

Ok, we've been in the house for 2 weeks now and I know, I know, I haven't posted any pictures. Well, here they are. We have some decorating projects in the works, so once those are complete I'll post those as well.

Consider this post the "before" view of the inside of our home.

Here is what you would see walking up our front path:

Walk through the entry way and this shady path takes you to...

...the back yard

Here is our living room:

Note my snazzy additions of x-mas lights!

And the dining room as seen from the living room

While we miss the cardboard box furniture motif of the apartment, we find that the TV stand seen here (from Salvation Army thrift store) is less likely to collapse on us.

This is our kitchen. Isn't the bar cute?

Fun fact: that ceiling fan you see to the right prevents us from opening the cabinets when it is on...

Here is a close up of what the bamboo chairs look like now. I'll be recovering some of the cushions for the next post. The chairs are courtesy of Grandad and Auntie Joyce (thanks!)

Aren't these chairs amazingly gorgeous? We have a generous family :)

We found this bamboo sofa at the Salvation Army Thrift store. I made some other excellent DIY thrift store finds that I will share later as well.

We have walmart bookshelves and a kitten calendar from Grammy in our office.

We have an honest to goodness mattress in our room, and the old butterfly curtains that I made for our Tampa house. As you can see, the mattress is functional.

I am not a fan of the paint, but we are waiting a while to decide if we can live with it...

To make things homey, the first thing we did was display this picture that April made us as a wedding gift. It hung over our bed in Tampa. I also covered the room in white Christmas lights.

This is the most important feature of our home: the leader board. What you see here is no longer accurate. Shawn and Kristin are kicking our butts right now. We have a Sunday night family game night. The winner gets to pick the next week's game. That will have its own post, too. You can also get points for other awesomeness that occurs.