Home is where the USMC sends you

Ta da!  Boxes unpacked, curtains hung, swatch portraits completed, organizing . . . still in progress, but you can’t see that in the photos.  Welcome to our new home!

This is the view from the street.  Doesn’t look like much, does it?  It’s roughly an “L” shape with the short base of the “L” facing the road and the length of it extending toward the back.  The small window you see here is the kitchen and the other large windows are all dining/living area.  It needs some landscaping but it was too hot by the time we arrived to do anything about that.  When you get here to visit, hopefully it will look a little more lush in the front.

This is the interior of the “L”.  Technically, this is our back yard but the front door doesn’t face the front of the house and is quite inconvenient so we use the back door (hidden from view here).  You can see the windows on the back side of the living room and, on the right side of the picture, the windows to the tatami room.

Our entryway—take off your shoes and stay a while!  The picture still needs to be hung but Jake needed to pick up a masonry drill bit; all the walls are concrete.

Turn to the left and step into our living room.  The fabric panels above the love seat are the result of my moment of decorating inspiration.  Japanese fabric glued to cardboard (I never claimed to be very crafty)—it’s called a swatch portrait.  You’ll see a couple more through the house.

This is all one very large room with the living room.  The dining set is all government-issue furniture.  It’s really not too bad!

Off the living room is our itsy-bitsy kitchen with the relatively large laundry room right behind it.  It even comes with an itsy-bitsy pantry--some ingenious former resident built a tiny shelving unit behind the door, just deep enough for a single can/bag/bottle.

Moving back through the entryway and down the hallway . . .

Look, it’s a bathroom!  We only have one but at least it’s a decent size.  Across the hall from the bathroom is the guest bedroom which is not put together yet; you’ll have to see it when you get here.

Next to the bathroom is our tatami room!  (It’s a tatami room because it has tatami mats—traditional Japanese woven floor mats.)  The exterior wall has windows all the way across and the interior walls are all sliding glass doors—three to the hallway and three to the master bedroom.  The glass in the doors to the master bedroom has been painted over for privacy.  We use the room as a combination office/playroom.

The tatami room looking back towards the hall and the government-issue ugly (but comfortable) chair.  Guess I forgot to take the packing tape off that trunk!

Across the hall from the tatami room is Logan’s bedroom, looking much the same as it did in Jacksonville.

  Just in case you’ve forgotten what it looked like before, here’s another shot.

And at the end of the hall is the master bedroom.  Your tour is almost complete, I just want you to check out one more thing . . .

These are our incredible closet units; we have one like this in every bedroom!  The large doors to the left are your typical closet, with shelves behind all the smaller doors above and to the right and six built-in drawers.  We also have THREE hallway closets!

Thanks for dropping by; it was great having you.  And now that you’ve seen the place, let me know what you think!