first floor decor.

Hey yall! I know it has been wayyy too long... but we are still working on our internet. I finally got a chance to post so here we go!

So we moved in on Aug 19, just 3 days shy of our 2 year anniversary :) Quite the anniversary present huh? We were so so excited to get moved in and start making this house our home. The last 3 1/2 weeks have been amazing. We have been working at the house on little projects every chance we get. It is definitely paying off. We love our home and we also love the neighborhood we moved to. Our neighbors are fantastic! Such a blessing! and we have definitely been taking advantage of making it a point to walk down and see the beach every day! Not sure why God has allowed us to have all these opportunities, but we sure are thankful and we pray that we glorify Him in everything we do. 

We have also been so happy to share our home with our friends and family. AND we want to share it even more so yall come on down and see us!!

So... Can't give it all away in one post so we will start off sharing some pictures from the first floor. 

Let us know what you think... AND any ideas for decorating!!!

Here's our trailer loaded down with our lovely antiques!

The living room area. Still on the hunt for a mantle, but its all coming together.

Another view of the living room area.
Sorry for the blurry pic. (My camera screen is broken so I can't see the pics when I take them haha)

Remember way back when we bought these tables at the Seaside yard sale?
We used one in the half bath and the other here at the entrance!

This is by far my favorite piece!!
This was my great-grandmother's Singer sewing machine. So special.
Thankful to have this in my home. 

The half bath finished!

The butcher block counter came in! love this.

Church pew and stairs. 

We didn't have a bed so we made one :)
We saved the extra wood from the posts that they cut off on the front porch. Turned out perfect.

Our bed all finished... still have a surprise project that will go behind the bed :)

We took a trip up to the N. Georgia mountains last weekend...
and we found this awesome chifferobe.
And what made it so neat is that it actually had the original receipt inside.
It was purchased in Feb 1924 in Atlanta, GA from Haverty's Furniture. Wow!
So we need to put a little work into it... but it is such a pretty piece!

So back on in June we went to N. Georgia with my family... that's when we picked up all of the rocks that would soon be our shower floor...

Not an easy job but he did such a good job...

Just like bathing in the river!!!

Building our closet shelves!

Couldn't get them all in one pic but you get the idea :)

Our dream.

Have we ever shared the story of our dream with you?
Well, really it all started when Matt was a wee little boy. No really, when he was just a young child, he told his parents that he would build his first home. Fast forward 20+ years... we got married and living in FL. We began looking around the area for homes to buy. Each one just not quite right. We always seemed to want to move walls or something crazy. So one day, it finally clicked... Matt's dream was always to build his first house... was that too crazy?! Heck no! We immediately began looking for lots and finally found a neighborhood that we were sure God was leading us to. After looking at every possible option in the neighborhood... we knew which lot we ReaLLy wanted... but was not lookin likely. Well... it never fails that God is sooo good and we became the proud owners of the lot our house now sits on.

Time to plan...
We started by looking at the exterior of homes and came up with an idea of what we wanted to exterior to look like. Then we found the perfect kitchen idea... i know... what?! yes, we started the inside with the kitchen... and from there just designed the house around that. It was really neat to draw it out ourselves... draw, erase, draw, erase. We loved the final design we came up with. After just a few minor changes by the engineer, we had our "official plans." We teamed up with Grand Bay Construction and our dream slowly turned into reality.

So... we are all moved in!!! It is truly amazing and we feel so incredibly blessed. We have been hard at work since we moved in... finishing up some last touches, bringing in some furniture and decorating. Before we post some of these exciting things, I thought it might be fun to make a post with pictures from over the past 5 months as the house has all come together.

ALSO, just wanted to give another HUGE THANKS to all of our friends and family who have supported us along the way. Thank you for all your help and for all your prayers. We are so excited to have everyone come and check it out. So just swing on in, anytime!

Hope you enjoy the pictures... :)

here we go.

FINISHED! The house is ready for us to move in! Feeling so so so blessed and so excited!

Lots of pictures below. We took a video but having trouble uploading it... so will post later. 

Will keep you posted as we move in and finish up the little projects. 

I guess it's time to start planning our House Warming Party! woohoo! 

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Welcome!

Kitchen/Dining area

Living Room

Another view of kitchen

Staircase turned out soooo nice

Looking back down at living room

Upstairs railing and lanterns

view from the other side

guest bath vanity

Guest room

Other guest room

media/craft room

half bath homemade vanity

Office (back downstairs)

Master bedroom

Master bath tub

Master bath vanity

just a few finishing touches.

 Okay yall... we are in the home stretch! We are on schedule to get our C.O. (certificate of occupancy... i have learned so much about building haha) on Thursday!!! That means we could be moving in this weekend! Prayers are much appreciated! We are so thankful to be where we are and we definitely feel extremely blessed. Ready to share our new home with friends and family. Ready to see how God will allow us to use our home to glorify him.

 Also, super excited and thankful that Matt and I were able to spend many hours this week/weekend together, working at the house. However, we were so busy working... I didn't take as many pics as I probably should've. But we definitely had a blast doing it. Laughs, tears (the happy kind), and good memories that we will never forget.

We will share a sneak peak of some of our finishing touches below. Will be sure to take many pictures over the next few days as we finish up... and MoVe iN!!

Putting up our ceiling fans! Team work is good.

this pic is from a couple of months ago when we  came up with our idea for our pendant lights... check out the finished project below

Mason jar pendants!!! 

lights out so you can see them better. LoVe how they turned out!

Also worked on our bathroom vanities... we bought this side table at a yard sale and recently decided it would work perfect for what we had planned :)

half bath downstairs!!
we used a galvanized bucket as a half drop in/half vessel sink!
(just missing the faucet and a patch of paint on the wall)

working on the guest bathroom vanity...

finished product turned out perfect!!!

appliances also got delivered! YaYyyy!

Excited to share so much more in the weeks to come as we get settled in! Thanks for checking in :)