As you know from my last post, we moved into our home for the next two years on Wed of Holy Week....April Fool's Day, April 1, and it has been requested that I send pictures of our house.
I had met with a home designer at the furniture rental place to tell her what sorts of things I like, and then she picked all the furniture and accessories out for me, so we had not seen any of it until the day we moved in. It was all set and ready when we got there, and it was so EXCITING! Sam actually stated that it was the "best day of his life!" (I think I have heard that before, but that's okay....he was just so happy and excited) ;)
It really was like a dream to come in with everything all pretty and set up.
It was so much fun walking from room to room, opening the doors to harp music in our heads, and then Sam of course had to run and throw himself on each bed! The decorator, Muriel, remembered that I dreamed of having an "Irish Sea" theme for my living room:
Then there's the kitchen and dining room with lots of natural light and the dining table and chairs that we ADORE!l (The utility "room" is behind the big wooden doors along side the "pantry.")
Sam wanted an Aggie room. He chose the grey room on the 2nd floor because it would go with maroon and he liked the cool mirror.
Lucy got the coolest room in the house...the attic room with the view on the third floor. Our room has a big wide window sill that juts out so that you can see Dun Laoghaire and the Irish Sea over the roof tops.
Our master bedroom is lovely, as well, with lots of light and a window seat with another nice view of Dun Laoghaire and the Sea.
Sam and Lucy were especially fond of the room devoted especially for school. Sam declared it was his favorite room in the house!
In it, I will have my dream of a "multi-purpose room" for school, art, and music stuff, and now I can add to it a place to dry clothes in a dryer and on a drying rack because we insisted we have a dryer, and there was no place for one. haha! AND there is a study that is COVERED with built-in shelves, drawers, closets, etc. It will be easy to stay picked up and orderly in this house, I think.
Yay!! As fond as I am of our Austin house, these are all things we do not have there.
We love all the light in the house and that we have a living room that actually can stay neat and tidy apart from the school/activity room and the family loungey room, as a place to pray, visit, or be a real adult.
(This is the family loungey room....love that we have a dedicated game table!!)
The home is contemporary, but has character and charm that gives itself a bit of an old-world and eclectic feel...like a stone wall and gate around it, 2 different types of wood floors, a wounded staircase that you walk under, Lucy's A frame ceiling and low ceiling in the bathroom that you can bump your head on, nooks and crannies, little windows, etc. We love it.
(Lucy's "dollhouse sized" bathroom with the bump your head ceiling and huge window that angles open................>
(Looking out the front windows at our stone fence with shrubs and front gate)And Lucy's windows on the ceiling. You can literally pop them open and stick your head out onto the roof!
Kitchen window looking out on a stone wall covered in vines
BTW, our address has no numbers in it! Many homes are addressed simply with a name...no house number.....so the postman just has to memorize where they all are! So if you are looking to come visit, don't count on numerical order to find us! Like a ship, her name is "Ashdown" and our address is:
Ashdown
Dalkey Ave.
Dalkey, Co. Dublin
Ireland
Later I will send out some pics of our town! Or come see it fer yerselves!
Love the view from the upstairs rooms!
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