{the OFFICIAL tour of our Minneapolis home.}

Where does the time go? It was one month ago today that we were officially moved into our new home {above photo}. Zack and I had been searching dozens of rental homes to make our own and nothing seemed to stand out, until one Sunday afternoon while on a walk outside with friends. We stopped, looked up, and this beauty was in front of us.

Talk about love at first sight!

A few days later we decided this house would be “the one”, so we signed the lease on Friday, totally anticipating we’d move in the following weekend. Zack and I were just too excited — we started packing that afternoon and by Sunday morning we were out of the apartment and fully moved-in to this house.

I shared photos of our new house here {I can’t believe our moms let a month go by with these silly iPhone photos!}, but now I have REAL PHOTOS for them {and you :] } ♥

The Gussy Sews Room:

SUCH a DREAM come TRUE! When we were getting ready to look for a new place, Zack and I agreed that having a room dedicated just to Gussy would be so helpful. I love that I don’t have to “pick up” each night, that I can basically shut off the light and walk to the kitchen, make dinner, and then spend the evening with Zack in our new home. In our last place, I was sewing in the living room/dining room. It was crazy and it was always such a mess {visually cluttered}, but still, it bothered me to see “work” so often.

I’ve hung some things on the wall, have re-organized things a few times since moving in — it’s starting to feel perfect.

I used this vase of spools on my table at The Creative Connection. It doesn’t take long to run out of thread, and since I sew so often I’m usually buying 5-8 spools of the same color at a time. As they ran out, I collected them until I had enough to wrap with fabric and use for eye candy:

See Gussy the goose down below? Love it, and thanks Mom for giving me the nickname ♥

Having so much natural light is such a blessing. Our last place had 3 windows, but our new home has 22. Hah! Thankfully some are stained-glass/decorative, but it’s still a lot of work to keep track of which are open, closing the blinds, etc. :]

Hubby’s Office:

Zack totally loves having his own place to be, and I’m sure he sits in there and rolls his eyes that I have a sewing room and an office, but… He understands and is so supportive of all of this. I’m waiting for the day when he buys a recliner and a flat screen and I then have to pull him out of this room… Tee he he.

{Zack, you would never do that, right?}

You can see a tiny sliver of his desk…

My Office:

I showed this photo a few weeks ago when I shared “where I blog“. The living room furniture has been re-arranged since then, but you can still get a feel for my Gussy office. This room is one of the walk-through rooms to my sewing room — thinking it was originally a small sitting room?!

Living Room:

We absolutely love the colors in here! The hardwood floors are gorgeous with our red couch and turquoise chair. Love it! This room is pretty much “center” in our house. Everthing extends on and on and on to the left and right.

When I’m on the couch I can see into our bedroom or the dining room. I’m pretty sure our bedroom was originally a Study. It has two built-ins and a 5′ wide pocket door. More on this room, later!

My parents had a mantle in my childhood home and now I have one, too. It’s the best, so perfect for decorating {and hanging stockings!} The fireplace adds such detail to the room…

Dear all 22 windows, thanks for providing such great natural light so I can photograph our new home.

You can see part of the large pocket door that goes into our bedroom in this photo:

Front Entrance:

Remember my fall wreath post? It’s still on the front door, it still looks great and I still love to photograph it :] Another great bonus to this house is the giant front porch. The house sits about 6 steps up and the porch is, well, amazing. The weekend we moved in I was able to stop the mailman and introduce myself. I told him I work from home and will be piling packages a few times a week on the porch, if that was OK.

I know, I’m a nerd… But having a front porch with private access to our home was so necessary. Anyways :]

When you first walk into our home this is what you see:

We have a main front door and then a little vestibule area, then another front door. Both have glass, both weight 3,299 lbs. Both are gorgeous doors.

Straight ahead is a mirrored door that is our front hall closet. To the left is a gorgeous original-to-the-home stairway that leads to the upstairs floor {which is rented out}. Also to the left is a second door to our bedroom {there’s also a pocket door to our bedroom}. And, to the right of the front hall closet is the kitchen.

Whew.

Dining Room:

This room is to the right when you first walk in the house. {The living room is to the left when you first walk in.}

I love the wood paneling {?} details on the walls, along with the ridged shelves so I can lean frames on it and they won’t slip off. The shelves go all the way around the room…

Hello, gorgeous! Also an original-to-the-home, the built-in buffet:

Off the dining room is a pantry room, which leads you to the kitchen:

Nearly every room in this house has original light switches. Most are “buttons” and you push one for ON and one for OFF.

This particular switch is my fav — you turn it left or right and it makes a loud {click!} sound before doing it’s thang.

Bedroom:

This room, along with the living room and my office, has gorgeous, perfect wallpaper. It’s a textured, linen-y paper and it’s in perfect condition. Yeowwwwwww!

Wallpaper isn’t my favorite, but this wallpaper is an exception.

Here’s one of the two built-ins in our bedroom. We use them for blankets, towels, and obviously my headbands/jewelry. Hah! We do get the entire basement for storage, but these things are all used daily and weekly, so I’m trying to be content with them showing through the glass doors.

It doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful, right Nester?

One thing we have on our “must buy soon” list is a large, cozy area rug for the living room. The entire house is hardwood except for the bathroom and kitchen. We added a creamy/beige rug to our bedroom {it’s half under the bed and on an angle} and it’s perfect.

Also on our list is another chair for the living room, a new dining room table {because it’s currently in my sewing room as additional workspace}, and another desk for my office.

We love our home ~ thanks for enjoying it with us :]