I know I have been telling friends and family about our 'new' house...you know the one that is Pottery Barn on Crack...Well I have pictures to back me up....

This is the eat-in wall in the kitchen

Yes that is oragne, yellow, pink and green......The green at the right of the picture (facing the picture) is the start of the cabinets. ......

Yep that is the rest of the kitchen.....

This is the master bedroom-- it is even MORE INTENSE in person.....Gotta love the black accent on the doors....(How did anyone sleep in this room???)

This is my favorite room.......this is the main bath - not the master bath. No shower...

The sinkds in the bathroom....(I hope they don't leak! Because of the main drain being broken we can't turn the water on to the second floor bathrooms)

What room is this? What color is this? This is one corner of ....drum roll please....the formal dining room. This loverly purple room is right off the kitchen.....Looks great after staring at the green and orange, don't you agree?

This is the bedroom my oldest will get - with a paint job of course...

The youngest picked this as her room. It is the only bedroom that is painted a normal bedroom color. Unfortunately it will have to be painted b/c the teen that frequented it used one wall and the doors for writing. (Appropriately my youngest is also a wall writer--- of course that stopped when she turned 4!)

This will be Patrick's room--- again with the paint job....It also might be the darkest room in the house....It is also the smallest bedroom......go figure (Patrick picked it because a smaller room will be easier to clean. That is the mind of a nine-year-old male for you)

This is the den. It is gray -not too bad--- again with the black accents. It too will be painted (note a theme here???) 

This is the bow window in the living room and the view out the front of our house. The walls are gold which you can't really tell in the lighting here. This is where our Christmas tree will reside during December. (And I promised that we can have a live tree this year. Since we tossed the artificial one I guess I don't have a real choice)

This is what we found under the carpet in the family room.

And here is the fireplace.

(Sorry it is a bit out of focus).....Only one fireplace, but honestly, it isn't a selling feature we particularly care about. (And it needs to be cleaned and inspected - so isn't really functional at the moment)

Obviously stairs up to the second floor. Again with the green!

I don't have any pictures of the exterior. I wish I did. I ran out of space on my camera and figured I could just link the mls picture ---but they pulled the listing this week. (Guess we can't get out of it now)

I should encourage all of you to post some comments. I would love to read what others think of the place.

The house is about 3 times the size of where we are now - has an extra 1/2 bath (total of 2 1/2 baths)  and a laundry on the main floor (yea! not in the unfinished basement). It has four bedrooms --- really five if you count the 'den' - which has a closet.

If we can get the garage doors replaced - we will  be able to park BOTH cars inside. NO more storing shit in the garage. All our stuff should have room in the house.

I will also be doing a major declutter along with a garage sale before the move.

I am so excited....So excited that I am not panicking aobut how the hell we are going to pay for two houses on one income. (For those who didn't hear, my position with the school district ends the first of June. I am currently looking for full-time employment. If you know of any great jobs in the KC area - let me know!)

I sure hope I discover that I like to paint. Even if I like to paint, I am sure by the end of this project I will hate to paint.

Anyone want to volunteer to help paint? Oh we also need to pull up all the carpet.

I will try and get a picture of the outside next time I am in that area.