Our Last House

Yesterday Travis was looking at his old Whiskerino profile for some reason (warning if you look at those photos, there is a pretty scary mustache involved). We took a lot of his images at our last house and it made me nostalgic and I also realized I hadn't shared pictures of the house here. So indulge me a little bit, I think you guys are going to love it. 

Travis and I lived in this amazing house for a year. I can't say much about it, but it was an incredible experience. Sadly, I never really took the time to walk around and photograph the place. So there are tons of pictures of friends there (I can't believe how often we used to have people over for themed get togethers!)

 There was a covered walkway that went from the dining room to the old kitchen house. They used to rent that little place out, how cute! There were a few little ponds around this covered porch and lots of flowers to cut.

There were more out buildings. All with great red roofs. I wish I had a picture of the original carriage house! I don't know what I was thinking. I was blogging at the time (on my old live journal) and you would think I would have taken the time.

I loved this covered porch. 

This is another shot from the beard competition. Ha! This wallpaper was in the room we used as our bedroom. Man, I wish I could have somehow brought all the paper with me. I know it has all been torn down now.

We had a big fireplace in our room, too bad we couldn't use it. Those are flowers from our wedding and the gorgeous Mr. Bowie of course.

Those big windows! So beautiful, but it was SO COLD in the winter! That is Scampi in the window. We just had two cats when we lived there.

 Another competition picture. Hah! That crown is from my short lived career in child beauty pageants. Oh I WISH I could tell you all about that! This wallpaper was my favorite and was in the front room, that we called the ballroom.

 Because of that chandelier! Look at it! Oh I can't believe I lived somewhere so amazing!

I had to include this one for those curtains! Kind of a strange choice for the room, but they worked somehow. That stool we were using for our photoshoot was over 100 years old! It went with a super old piano that was in the house.

 I can't believe I don't have a better picture of the entry way. It is a big open space that goes to the upstairs (which I have NO pictures of!) One of the bedrooms up there had a great mid century cowboy light fixture. And more amazing wall paper.

 On the landing in the middle of the staircase there was a little door that went into this room. THE COFFIN ROOM! Ah! When this house was built there was NOTHING else around so the family had all their coffins shipped to the house to wait for them to die. Isn't that crazy? This room was creepy and unfinished and awesome. This is another Whiskerino picture.

 Some more wallpaper. This room had heavy deep red curtains. We had a Yule Ball that Christmas and asked people to dress up. It ruled.

 Then there was the kitchen. Can you tell what the wallpaper was?

 No simple fruit pattern here, look at all that bountiful produce! It was so overwhelming in the best way! I miss that kitchen. It was huge!

We used this room off the kitchen as our living room. The house was over 7000 square feet and we lived in just three rooms in the bottom back.

 Look at that red! (This is a picture from the year we recorded a Christmas album. Ha!)

 And last but not least, this is the room we lived in during our last month there. It was so cold and we didn't want to buy propane since we were moving out. This room had the least windows. It was still 50 degrees or less in there! It was so miserable!

 You can see the pattern a little better here. 

 So we moved from this amazing manor into our little cottage in December 2009. Sometimes I think I've lived a pretty boring life and don't have any good stories, then I remember things like this crazy house.

And I had to post this one because it made me laugh. It was the second day we were in our new house and Travis captioned it "We moved into a new house. I hope Santa can find me." Look at that beard! Sad to say it didn't last til New Years. I just couldn't take it. Maybe someday I'll let Travis live his beard dream.
I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane!