welcome to our home.

the week of our wedding {the last any of my family was at my house} austin and i had basically just moved in. we had no furniture, save for a few lawn chairs, and definitely no "homey" touches. since we've had some time to get things set up, i thought i'd share a little virtual tour of the house! it's still a work in progress, but we're just renting, so we can only do so much without it being a waste of our money.

this is the wall right inside the front door, in our living room. i got those shelves for $10 each at tj maxx, total deal. the little bookshelf there was donated to us. i'd really love to find a much longer bookshelf for along this wall, but this will do for now. and those black and white pictures on the hanging shelves are pictures my mom took back when she was in college as part of a photography class. i just love them. there's also evidence of just how spoiled julie boo is with that many toys.

next, my wall of empty frames. i got them all at either goodwill or the dollar store and painted them black or white. i also found those little hanging shelves at goodwill. and i got the "h" from hobby lobby.

and the rest of our living room. thanks to nice friends of ours, both of our couches were donated to us!

next is our not-so-fabulous kitchen. i'm not sure who picked out this wine/plaid theme, but i'm not so much a fan.

however, since we had the whole wine theme going at our wedding, i tried to make the best of it by using the wine decor in the kitchen...

good not great. we still have this nasty gold-ish color and the heinous plaid on the bottom to deal with. don't even get me started...

moving on.

here's our main bathroom. it's pretty small and has zero counter space or storage. but i really like our shower curtain {not that that makes up for lack of space}.

next is the guest bedroom/my dressing room/my office/guinevere's room. multi-function, to say the least.

i got the bedset on sale at ross, i believe. the nightstand was donated to us. and i made the curtain rods out of branches from our back yard!

since it's guinny's room, i've kind of got a nature/bird theme going on. found this bird cage memo holder at home goods. it was hot pink, like the clothespins still are, but i painted it light yellow to tone it down a bit and match the bedspread.

that dresser is old and junky, but it was free and all i had to do was paint it. i got the cute little bird house on sale {of course} at hobby lobby and the bronze tree jewelry holder at big lots. oh and that desk is an antique that we found in my great grandfather's garage.

and lastly, the "master bedroom." ok so it's teeny tiny, not the slightest bit bigger than the guest room. but that's ok. i try to keep as little in here as possible, i hate feeling crowded in my bedroom.

say hi to dinger, who looks like he's about to fall off the bed. and yes, that is an empty picture frame hanging on the wall {remember that's a goal for finally finished friday, as is to get the headboard put in here}. and see those little wooden hearts on the wall? austin bought me those in jamaica on our honeymoon. :) and p.s., i got that 8 piece bedset at tj maxx for $40. dang, i know.

let me just tell you how much austin loves this little shelving number. it only took about 7 hours to get them all hung up and level. i'm still not sure they're level, either. we still need to find a few more things to put in/on those shelves, so don't mind the one that's lonely up there.

and yes, those are dead, crunchy roses in that vase. they were my birthday flowers from austin and i think they look cool. so they are staying.

so that's our house. most of it, at least. we do have a dining room type area and a half bath. but they aren't decorated {or even cleaned, really} so i figure no one wants to see those. the dining room is currently more of a storage area, as i am looking for a long cabinet type thing to store more kitchen stuff in {i believe i'm looking for something called a buffet?}. and that half bath should really be called a quarter bath. it's got the world's smallest sink and a toilet. and that's it.

so that's that. welcome to our home. maybe someday we'll have our own home for real and everything can be set up just as i like it. but this shall work for now.