The pictures and plants really make a difference upstairs. It took some time to explain to the adult children that there would be no “Duncan’s room” or “Jesse’s room” but there would be a spare room (back bedroom) and a sitting room (front bedroom) and they could arm wrestle over who stayed where when they are both home.

Let’s start with the front bedroom which is now the sitting room. Here’s how it looked when we bought the house, including the closet door that didn’t actually close.

 

And the closet behind the door wasn’t much to write home about:

So here it is on move in day:

And now:  no rug yet but it’s a cozy place for knitting and watching the little TV.

And now the de facto “linen closet”:

The back bedroom, or spare room, is the same size but has a useable closet. On the day we bought it:

And on move in day:

And today:

So guests can now choose between a room with a queen size bed with storage space or the room with the futon, no closet, but a TV! (I’ll let you know how the allocation goes when everyone is here for Thanksgiving!)

And now, the master bedroom.  I was alternatively leery and ecstatic about the layout of the master bedroom.  Now I’m just deliriously happy.  Jesse tried to capture it in panorama when we bought the house:

But the closet needed special panoramic attention:

Lots of space there! Enough to stuff in lots of boxes on moving day:

But now, here’s our fabulous master bedroom.  Half the square footage of our old one but much more useful:

And the dream of a closet – unheard of for a nearly 100 year old house:

And the piece de resistance – the washer and dryer are IN THE CLOSET! No more traipsing up and down stairs with baskets of laundry.  It all gets washed and dryed in the same place where it gets taken off and hung up:

But again my friends, you’ll need to come to KC to see it for yourself.  Then you can make the choice between the big bed and closet and the room with the TV.

Hope to see you soon!