The Houston House: Ownership

Well, today marks the one-whole-year date of being home owners! We celebrated all weekend.

Hubs and me, closing day Oct. 8, 2011. (By the way, Atlanta area peeps looking for a realtor, hubs has always gone to a friend of the family for her expertise. She's awesome!) Pre-moving and renovating exhaustion. We look so happy here, don't we? We have no idea how much work is ahead of us. Haha.

Pre-moving box #1. Still smiling!

It's gone by so fast, and yet so much has changed. I've officially painted every single room in the house (and some rooms more than once- see kitchen, which went from gray- to blue- to red- to brown- to beige). We've (hubs) done so much work in the yard, including removing a ton of crawling juniper and beds of ivy. I've decorated and redecorated the kitchen and living room several times. Just recently I took away a lot of the coastal/blue feel we had going on, and those rooms are sporting a more neutral look (with lots of pattern, of course, because I love pattern and can't land on just one!).

We hosted our small group at our house last night, which meant I cleaned up the house really well. Hubs got a new phone with a really cool camera, so I managed to snap a couple pics while the house was so cleaned (and didn't look like anyone actually lived there- you know with laundry and mail piled up everywhere!).

And we finally got our porch fall ready!

I scored a cheap clearance rug from West Elm that lives at our front door now.

And I hung my Halloween swag.

And speaking of ownership- I watched my Gamecocks absolutely destroy those Dawgs. I tell ya, living in Georgia is a LOT easier when your alma mater wins that game. Go Gamecocks!