Come see for yourself!

Many of you have asked to see some pictures of our home. Last night as I was out watering my flowers, I remembered that I hadn't yet taken outside pictures (or inside pictures), so I grabbed my camera to take a few shots. Here is your own personal tour of the Bruggeman home...(minus the upstairs and basement which were messy and not really decorated yet - those pictures will just have to come later!)

Here is the backyard pation/deck area. We spend lots of time reading and swinging in these skychairs (http://www.skychairs.com/ - made in Denver). There is a deck above which opens from our dining/family room, so it's nice to have shade downstairs. My flowers are still alive since it's only been 2 weeks that I've been taking care of them - let's hope they make it through the summer!

We love all of the mature trees and plants - after having lived in a new construction home, we appreciate all of the landscaping the previous owners did - it's fun to see things bloom and discover what is growing in our yard.



Here are our horse shoe pits - they line the back of our yard where Blake often plays Star Wars over the fence with the neighbor boy! I thought it was a very creative use of space too small for much else! They even left us the horse shoes.

Here are the living and dining room areas - we don't use them much, but they're nice to have for special occassions (I guess?) :) This is the view from the front door - these stairs go up to the bedrooms.

This is looking into our kitchen from the family room - I'm standing right next to the sliding door that opens to the upstairs deck with stairs leading to the backyard - someday we'll have a BBQ and patio furniture, but for now it's just going to be our card table and chairs :)

A fun feature of this floorplan is the double staircase. These stairs go from our family room up to the bedrooms - there is a landing which meets with the front staircase...very handy since I'm constantly making trips up and down between floors.

Here is our family room where we spend 85% of our time. Our home felt like "home" from the minute we walked in the door - we love being together here and look forward to hosting visitors!