It’s been exactly one month since move-in day, and we’re embarrassed we haven’t shared a video tour yet. Consider this our virtual slap on the wrist — or a noogie if you prefer old school. No Indian burns, though. Gotta draw the line somewhere.
After unpacking, making lists, painting the nursery, frosting a door, removing a bi-fold, ordering a duvet, assembling beds, hunting for a washer and dryer, taking down shelves, arranging and painting built-in bookcases, dealing with a lot of mirrors (some in very odd places), painting bedrooms, dismantling and decorating the Christmas tree, and waiting for our new washer and dryer to arrive (update: they’re here — more details later!), we finally grabbed the Flip and did a quick walk-through of the new place. Watch the clip below or on YouTube if you prefer. If you’re at work, you can mute it and still get a solid feel for the layout. And I apologize in advance for the Blair Witch–style handheld footage; I’m not exactly steady with a camera.
This quick tour is meant to give you a clear sense of the layout and how rooms connect, along with some angles you haven’t seen before — like our closet and the kitchen sink. We’ll skip deep-dives into every half-finished project for now because those conversations would take hours. When it comes to future plans and how we’ll tackle them, we prefer to take things one day at a time to avoid getting overwhelmed.
So enjoy the look around, and please hold off on firing questions like “what are your plans for this sink/bed/wall/window?” or “are you keeping/painting/replacing that?” Not because we don’t appreciate your curiosity, but because we’re usually undecided and juggling lots of ideas. We prefer to share each project and decision as it happens, in real time, rather than speculate too far ahead — things tend to change anyway.
We’ve included the rough floor plan we shared before moving in for easy reference if you like cross-checking layouts (Hubs is the cross-referencing type; I’m not). Note: some rooms are labeled differently on the plan than in the video — for example, we labeled the future dining room as “living room” on the plan because that’s how it’s being used right now. There’s more context in the original floor plan post and another version showing planned changes as we go.
Once we make more progress on the house, we’ll film a more polished tour — hopefully with steadier camera work. Sorry again for all the spinning and shaking here; we hope no one lost their lunch watching. If you did, at least it was virtual, so no clean-up on our part. Can’t complain about that.