The Hazard Chronicles

Our New House

Let us take you on a tour

First...The street view
That's pretty huh...Okay, next we'll walk inside. The first door toward the bottom left is the front door- the next one is the garage door. Don't worry, we'll see the garage later. For now, you get to view our lovely living room!

...and another view

Alright. One of the things we like about this place is the open floor plan. From the living room you can easily interact with people in the dining room and kitchen. We also love the nice "partial wall" which will serve well to keep the mess in the kitchen (let's be honest here) hidden from view.

Next, you can see a little close up of the dining room. The sliding glass door goes out to our deck.

...but we'll see the deck a little later. For now, we'll turn around and look at the kitchen! And a beautiful kitchen it is. All of these appliances are new within the past year-an-a-half, as is the beautiful wood floor. What you aren't seeing is the new dishwasher by the sink and tons of cupboard space under the bar.

We had to put this next picture in because about 6 months ago Rachel and I went on a date to Sears (I know- we're real exciting people). While we were there we sort of window shopped for our "dream home appliances." Well, this double oven/flat-top stove/microwave was Rachel's number one pick. I guess it was just meant to be.

This next one is our pantry. That is where we'll keep our food.

So, now we'll take a look downstairs. (There are two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs too. You'll see them later.)

This is our beautiful, HUGE family room. Here is one side of it....

...and here is the other. The sliding glass doors go to the back yard.

Oh- We also have an electric fireplace/heater thing.

This next thing is kind-of a cool/unique feature of this home. This is the closet under the stairs. It is a normal closet, but then there is this little door (where Evelyn is walking through).

This place was obviously meant for more storage- but it wouldn't take much to make an awesome "secret hide out." The little nook to Evelyn's right will be built-in book shelves.

Okay, now we'll show you the bedrooms...at least one of them. They all look pretty much the same. There's four in all- two upstairs and two downstars.

And next you will see a bathroom. The other one is pretty much an exact replica.

So that's the house. Now we'll move on to my favorite part- the outside! First, we'll go back upstairs and out the sliding glass doors (remember the ones in the dining room).

...and we find ourselves standing on our deck.

The deck has a beautiful view. I could sit out here every night and watch the sun go down over these mountains (which are a lot closer for some reason in real life). The nice thing is that we live on a hill, so this view isn't going anywhere.

Anyway, if we turn around on the deck, we can also look down and see the backyard. The structure on the left is my man-cave. We'll see that later too.

We have a lot of plans for this back yard. If you go down the deck and turn around then you can see the back of the house...

Along with the covered patio and fire pit.

The gravel area is the driveway for my man cave. We hope to build a little play house/fort underneath the deck. Also, if you'll remember, the sliding doors that you can see lead into the family room. There is also a little built-in tool shed behind the BBQ (you can see the door if you look closely).

This view shows the back of "The Cave" and will one day be a lush, green garden, complete with the white picket fence to keep out the kids. This area actually gets sun nearly all day long despite the large wall right next to it.

Okay- now we'll look at MY playground.

So, obviously the current owners are using it for some storage before they move out. Just know that there are great plans in the making.

...Another view, this time looking out toward the front.

And this lovely little area will be perfect for my at-home climbing wall (I already have the holds for it too). I am so excited.

I know that most of you are probably getting tired of looking at unfinished wood. Well, I am the one writing this blog, so I get to show what's important to me (if Rachel was doing it then I'm sure you would get a much more intimate view of our kitchen). Anyway, this is our garage. It's big- there's lots of storage- and I like it.

Well, that about wraps up the tour. We brought the kids to see the place today and they love it. Evelyn said her favorite part is the backyard. Also, I had to put this picture up so that I could point out Rachel's posture- it looks like she's been taking lessons from Grandpa!