Our new house...upstairs

 Upstairs consists of the bedrooms and Kyle's office. The landing at the top of the stairs is also a large space and we are still figuring out how to best utilize the space! 

The 'Library' is what we refer to it as, simply because that's what it was labeled as on the floor plans! The bookshelf was here when we moved in and we had discussed moving it downstairs, but it doesn't fit down the staircase, so it stayed up here!

Haleigh and Lydia share the room that is to the left of the library. They decided they didn't want to have bunk beds anymore so we are in the process of getting them set up with their own twin beds. We haven't put anything up on the walls yet, so it's a bit plain...but we'll get there eventually.

Annaliese knew that she wanted her room to be blue, just like her old room. We couldn't find the exact same color, so we found a few options that were similar and let her pick the one she wanted. It was a bit overwhelming when we first started painting and I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out, but now that her furniture is in the room, I love how it turned out!

Our bedroom faces the front of the house and has lots of windows...this is fantastic every other week when I'm not trying to sleep during the day! The house came with nice blinds, and I haven't been able to decide what I want to do as far as curtains go, so in the meantime, we have one window taped with ugly brown paper and the other four windows have 'temporary black-out blinds' that we found at Home Depot. Basically, they have black pieces of paper that can fold up accordion-style and they do a pretty good job! I'm slowly starting to put pictures up on the walls in here.

The master bathroom was the one room that we weren't planning on completely redoing, but then ended up tearing everything out, moving the toilet, and putting in a whole new shower. Now that it is done, I love how much bigger it feels and how much brighter it seems! For reference, here is what it looked like before:

And here is what it looks like now:

New vanity with a double sink!

The toilet is where the tub used to be and instead of a triangular-shaped, cave-like shower, we have a nice bright shower. And the bathroom door opens all the way because we removed an unnecessary wall!

Kyle is using the fourth bedroom as his office. He has it set up quite nicely! 

We didn't do too much to the girls' bathroom, besides replacing the floor and the mirror (and of course removing all the wallpaper!) The floor here is the same as the floor in the laundry room/downstairs bathroom. 

That about completes our tour! We are so happy with how things turned out and can definitely see ourselves living here for a long time. There are still things to do...curtains, pictures on the wall, a table in the breakfast nook...but that's all part of making it a home instead of just a house...figuring out how we want it to be, what things we use the most, what spaces we gravitate towards hanging out in. Now we just need to be able to have friends over to share it with us!!