Walking up to the front entryway.
The front porch.
The entryway. This area is not air-conditioned and gets really hot because of the windows above the door. There are no outlets here or in the hall so we can't even put a fan in here.
Our shoe cupboard & coat rack. These were not meant to be the final solution to the problem but it's beginning to look like it will stay this way!
Looking toward the guest room. Family room on right; storage under the stairs, office, & bathroom down the hall on the left. Dining room at the end of the hall on the right.
This storage area under the stairs is pretty nice--it wraps around the corner there and keeps most of what we would have had in the garage out of the way.
Family room.
Game room from the family room. We usually keep these two rooms open to each other to share the A/C and not feel too cut off from each other.
Into the kitchen from the play room.
Laundry & dishwasher. I also use this sink to hand-wash dishes as the sink in the kitchen is too shallow. This room is open to the outside.
The maid's room. This is off of the laundry room and is not air conditioned.
The maid's shower & toilet area (in the same room as her bedroom).
Dining room.
We keep those curtains closed all of the time because the sun comes in from this side for most of the day. We rarely use this room.
Guest room/bike room. We'll move the bikes & trainer out of here when Corrine, Anita, & Brian come!
Main bathroom (also the guest bathroom).
From the guest room to the front door.
Office.
Looking down from the stairs at the top of the entryway.
Hallway to bedrooms. We keep these curtains closed (or mostly so) also because this area is not air conditioned and the sun gets too hot.
Anna's room.
Look from Anna's room toward the master bedroom. Sarah & Henry's room is on the left.
Sarah & Henry's room.
Sarah & Henry's bathroom (Anna has her own as well).
The sitting area of our room. We can open/close that wood door wall. I usually leave it like this. This is where we read to the kids at night.
The bed side of our room.
We have a door from our room to the upstairs balcony (also a door at the top of the stairs on the other side). We never use this area. Maybe we would if we bought some furniture. Heat & mosquitos are not encouraging me to go buy furniture for this spot though!
We have a lot of closet space! We don't use the top cupboards at all.
Our bathroom (the only one with a bathtub and some built in storage.
I've put off taking pictures of the house so far because we haven't hung up all of our art. Today I decided to just do it because who knows when we'll get it hung up! The walls are concrete and we've been using 3M wall hangers for the framed stuff and blue tack for other stuff but a lot of things keep falling off the wall (several frames broken) so I've gotten pretty discouraged! It would really make our house feel more like home with the art up but I might just give up on that dream.
