Pics of the House

We're finally posting some pictures of the house!! The pictures are actually kind of old...we took them when we first moved in...so we have done a few new things since. But, it still gives you the general idea!!

We didn't take pictures of outside so maybe I'll do that this week.

We really like where we live. It's not that big but it's great for us right now. We don't have much stuff so there's no clutter! It's a townhouse on Brunswick St, New Farm. New Farm is a suburb outside downtown Brisane (downtown is called CBD - Central Business District) It's about a 20minute walk to CBD. Brisbane is broken down into smaller districts with their own postal codes. They're all still in Brisbane but each are like a little town. We like it. Darryl works in Fortitude Valley which is about a 15minute walk from our place and close to downtown. Its in the entertainment district so lots of clubs/pubs and shops/boutiques! Which Darryl has been taking advantage of!! He goes out alot more here than he did in Montreal.

Our main floor has the kitchen, dining room, living room, and bathroom...

This is basically the view when you walk into the house. You can see the kitchen in the top left, the bathroom straight ahead and the stairs...

The front door. We have a little patio set outside which we use alot. I didn't want to live anywhere that did not have a deck/balcony/terrace. Somewhere that we could sit outside! The outside area is all covered with trees so we have lots of shade. It's actually pretty cool in the house now but I guess that will be nice in the summer.
We really like the furniture we bought. The couches are very light so I don't know how long they'll remain clean! And in the corner is a real cool dark brown wicker lamp. Like that too.

Another view of the living room. Have my picture of Port Hood on the end table!! I may want another one Mom! Or a picture of Antigonish (hint hint :) We want to get a nice rug for the living room but haven't had the time to do that yet.

I like the dining room set - dark wood. Everything we bought was pretty cheap so hope it doesn't fall apart! We've put some family pictures above the dining room table so more homey now! You can kind of see the kitchen counter to the right of the dining table.

The kitchen. Nothing fancy. The stove came with the place. Pretty old and quite small...works though! The appliances are all small here. You can just fit a cookie sheet in the oven!! Maybe because they're so into BBQ'ing. The BBQ's here can cost 10,000!! It's basically a kitchen outside!! We bought the fridge. The bathroom downstairs has a washer in it which also came with the house. No one seems to have a dryer here. Not a common thing. Everything goes on the clothes line...Mama Rosie wouldn't like that!! Coarse rough towels!

The upstairs has the 2 bedrooms and another bathroom. Quite a bit of closet space which is uncommon here. Alot of bedrooms don't even have closets. So, we were very happy about that.

Our room. We haven't done much with it yet but we like what we have! We went pretty cheap with the bedframe so we could buy a good mattress! Still like the dark wood. :)

And the kids room. They're doing well with sharing a room. It's a pretty good size considering everything we looked at had small 2nd bedrooms. In the left corner is a little toy box corner so it's out of the way. Since the pic was taken we put some things on the walls. And Shamus' "Cars" sheets/blankets came in the mail. I also made a Tinkerbell blanket for Breagha so we'll have to take some new pictures of their room too!

Upstairs bathroom. Nothing too exciting but a decent size and clean.

The whole renting process here is really strict. You have to go thru a real estate company to rent and they do inspections every 6 months. You can't even put a hole in the wall so we had to buy this different hooks/gadgets to be able to hang pictures! And renting is really expensive. Buying is too! Our house in Montreal could probably sell for $$$$$$$$$$ here. No kidding.

That's about it. We have a garage too so that's handy for storing things like camping gear and car seats. I'll take a couple of pics of outside and post them soon!

Happy Mom's Day to all the Mommies out there!
And Thanks for all the Happy Birthday emails/wishes!!!