What our house is like

Many of you have asked what our house is like so I thought I would give you a rather generic view of our house to fill in any gaps that the kids may have left out.

Our house is located at the end of a cul-de-sac.  It is a white painted -  wood sided house.  You pull into a 2 car garage (which we don't actually park the car in, rather the wood is stacked there and Chad will be adding some exercise stuff), walk under a nice car port (which also has a long clothes line in it) to the door.  If you go to the left before entering into the house, there is a locked room which is our laundry room.  The washing machine is in there (no dryer) and it smells clean like laundry soap.  If you go to the right you come into the house via the kitchen.  The kitchen has cork floors (this reminds us of our bedroom in Redford).  The sink has a fabulous bay type window, the refrigerator beeps if you leave it cracked open and there is a dishwasher (which is apparently a rarity around here).  The wood burning stove also heats the water for the house.  The dining room is attached, and to the right is a large sliding door which goes into the family room.  This is a nice spacious room with another wood burning stove.  The t.v. is in here as well as the computer and wii!    There is a large glass door wall leading to the front yard area.  Our family is spending all of our time in these two rooms.  Off the dining area is another sliding door (which we keep closed to save the heat) which leads to the hall.  All of the rooms are on the left of the hall, and the right wall has large windows and sliding doors to the front yard area.  The first room  you come to is the bathroom which has a shower, bathtub (where we keep all our dirty clothes) and the sink.  In the next room you will find the toilet.  Continuing down the hall you have the girls' room (which is smaller than their room in Hudsonville), Damon's room (same size as the girls') and then our bedroom is at the end of the hall.  Because the house is an "L" shape, the front yard has this cozy bricked area with an arbour overhead and a flowering tree.  This is the area the sliding doors all lead to and I can just imagine some nice summer evenings hanging out with friends in this space!  The backyard isn't huge but we have a lemon tree, 2 mandarin tree, an orange tree, a grapefruit tree, a fig tree and a macadamia nut tree.  There is also a nice vegetable garden spot.  There are geranium plants and rose bushes everywhere.  It is very beautiful.

I hope this walk through gave you a good idea of what our house is like!

No worries - Kris