Amelia Hill House is now a Home!

As of last Saturday, we are officially the residents of Amelia Hill House!

I've been meaning to put a house update on here, so here's a peak at what some of it looks like with furniture. 

Note most of what you don't see if probably covered in boxes and packing paper.

And some of what you will see is covered in boxes and packing paper...

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I adore our dining room! While it's a little annoying to carry food from the kitchen and through the living room, it's much more enjoyable to eat a meal and NOT see all the dishes and things that need doing in the kitchen.

The view ain't bad either.

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I could easily see the library being one of our longest term projects currently in the house. I have yet to unpack any of the book boxes, but I did fill up that laundry baskets with library books so there's that.

When we were moving in the narrow stairs proved to be a challenge. Most of the bedroom furniture managed to squeeze up there some how except for this piece. Matt's dresser. So it's living in the library. It's a little odd but with Jack and Jill entrance to the downstairs bath from the library and the kitchen, it might work ok. For now.

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But everyone loves the downstairs shower!

We thought back to everything we've loved about different showers in hotels, and picked those things. They were good choices!

It's the one room in the house that is completely updated, and it was worth it.

Long term items to find for this are some sort of storage, an actual towel rack (because that's my quilt rack), and a cool mirror for above the sink.

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Having a front porch was important to me in a house. But this is Minnesota, so a 3 season screened in porch is going to do nicely.

Matt found some wicker furniture on Craigslist, and I love them! 

At some point they were painted, and I'm mostly sure it's a close match to the shade of green we used for the kitchen cabinets.

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I haven't gotten around to doing much with the guest house yet, but I wanted to show a little bit of it's cute little kitchen!

The guest house was put into it's current form in the 1950s, and this kitchen is all original vintage stuff - in excellent condition due to being so lightly used.

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This house has an abundance of outdoor living areas! In addition to the porch we have:

The stone patio

Wouldn't this look cute with that globe lights strung across?!

And the wood patio!

I still need to put the kid's slide back together, but I think this will be a sweet spot for summer dinners. Lots of potentially flowering shrubs growing all around it, but no idea what they might be yet!

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So I was playing with Felicity on the floor of the nursery yesterday and I noticed a very loose corner of wall paper under the window. Now in our previous rental houses I would have had to hold in my curiosity, but NOT ANYMORE! I embraced my home ownership, and found this cute vintage wallpaper underneath.

The current wallpaper came off extremely easily so I went ahead and took it off in the whole room. Most of the walls had significant prior damage that had been attempted to be covered up with the upholstery fabric of wallpaper, but one wall is in almost pristine condition.

I'm thinking that it's worth saving this cute little vintage survivor! Clean off the remains of the old wallpaper glue and clear coat it.

My big remaining decision is to paint the remaining walls either the same shade of white used in the background of the vintage paper or to use a shade of blue from the design.

If you want to vote, there is a poll in my instastories until tomorrow (because polls are fun!)

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