My Kitchen (Photo Tour)

So here is the long awaited photo tour of my kitchen.

I cleaned and straightened the kitchen before taking picture of course. =)

Didn't think you'd want to see the mess that it was. ;)

Yes, those are water marks on the table. It happens with big families. ;)

My mom has this thing for collecting blue and white plates and putting them up in the kitchen. 

They look pretty cool don't they? 

These are the cupboards and drawers where we keep dishes and the the like. You can see what the counters hold. (I organized everything on it.)

We love that big picture window so we can look out into our backyard. 

I am constantly straightening the fridge door. You can not believe how disorderly it looks after people slam the door closed a few times!

That's our back door.

Our semi organized pantry. Don't you love the height measurements on the doorway there?

See? It's kind of put together in order. ;)

My Living Room (Photo Tour)

So here is the promised post of an inside tour of my house, well just the living room for now. We don't have the nicest things or furniture but we like what we have and are comfortable living with what we are grateful to have.

This is the view you get when you come in from the front hall.

My loves to put things like on this wall around the house. She took the picture on the wall to the left by the lamp. 

This is what the living room looks like when it's clean. Well, all that really gets messy is that coffee table there. 

The green chair is my mom's and the one to the right is my dad's. ♥♥♥ 

View from the other side. The two couches can be pushed together to form an "L." 

This is our entertainment center. This is the first flat screen TV we've ever had and we just got it last November. 

I call this little corner the "travel center" because of the map and globe. You could anywhere you want right here. Hey, there's even a palm tree type plant, a light to be the "sun," heater so it's more realistic, and magazines from America. =) Oh, and that door is the downstairs bathroom with the shower we all have to share.

This table is used for many things, School, eating, game playing, talking, and crafts are all done here. The fan is from a missionary (Mike Roberts) in Vietnam. The door with the posters all over it is where my two brothers rooms are.

We got that piano for $400 dollars and have had it for about ten or so years. KayleeBeth and I both play. 

Everyone hates that couch. When you sit down you sink just about all the wall to the floor! We had to put boards under the cushions so it wouldn't be so bad but it still is pretty uncomfortable to sit on. 

And this is our wood stove. It only looks this clean when it's not winter and in use. =)

So what did you think of my living room? Isn't it kind of ugly and old looking? Haha, I think so but I like it in a ways. Should I continue to do photo tours of my house?

To view the outside photo tour of my house click here.

Outside of My House (Photo Tour)

    As you know, the name of my blog is "A Home Beyond the River" but not all of you know why it is called that. I named my blog that for two reasons, #1 It's the name of my favorite hymn and #2 I live in a house/home by a river and if you're on the other side of the river and see my house it is indeed a home beyond the river. =) The house is almost an hundred years old (there's a brick down in the basement that says "1927" but the foundation/basement wasn't laid until after the house was built (weird huh?) so we're not sure how old it is) and is considered to be historic (it has old Italian paper underneath the carpet in the living room). It was advertised before we bought it as having ten bedrooms but we have also used other rooms for bedrooms too. I think around when my family first moved in my dad started  renting the upstairs bedrooms in our house to tenants until about nine years ago when our family had grown too big to not live in both parts of the house.

     Last week I took pictures of the outside of my house and will be showing you those now . . .

 This is the front view of my house. My dad likes to have scripture verse signs on our house so others passing by and our neighbors can read them. I was born in this house (literally). My older siblings and parents have lived in this house for almost nineteen years since my older brother Kirk was a baby. 

I was standing on the sidewalk next to the road/highway by my house when I took this one and the next two.  There's a little square space where my dad keeps some tools in where the door on the side is (on the tunnel looking part of the house). The middle part (where all the windows are) is part of the downstairs bathroom where are washer and dryer are. 

Um, so I don't know why there's a random ugly blue board leaning up against the back porch (probably something one of the boys did). 

 The window on the far right is my where my room is (now you know where I live and sleep o.o), the one in the middle is where we have a stove and sink (since it used to be a second kitchen) and the window on the left is a bathroom. Sometime my sister Kaylee and I will go out my window and sit on the roof. Hehe.

This is the back view. The window up top in the middle is where the attic is, the window to the left and right are both guest bedrooms when family and friends stay for a long visit and nap rooms when family is over for a short while. 

The left and right side views from the back.

This is a stone someone chipped (or did they buy it someplace? I can't remember) for us. 

We put it out front.

Our front door mat.

 The front door.

My brother Kirk's dirt bike! He parks it out front when he's not riding it (which is rarely, lol). 

It's pretty awesome is it not?

I tried to get a nice picture in his mirror but it didn't really turn out too well.

 This is inside our porch where people are supposed to come in and knock but they are forever (and I do mean forever) knocking on the front porch door and we can't really hear them. I think we just need to get a doorbell after all these years. But then my little brother Ryan would ring it just for fun or even try doorbell ditching. Ha! As if people actually fall for that (besides, well, everyone).

 Isn't that the coolest doorknob ever? Of course it's just glass but it's pretty looking. =) And will you just look at that porch wall? Those are broken glass pieces and rock! So awesome! If you can't tell, I really ♥ my house. I actually have this fantasy of getting married and once my parents but an RV and move out (that's their fantasy lol) moving in and having my children grow up here. Strange to some people but to me I think it'd be pretty cool.

    What do you think of my big old (really? you just couldn't tell) house? Want to come for a visit? Over for dinner? Stay oh well, forever?? Lol, that would be nice but . . . I live in Montana and you live . . . where? Oh, too far away. Well, if your ever near our neighborhood do tell me and I'd love to give you a real tour. =) Speaking of tours, I'm going to do some other posts with pictures of the inside of my house so check back this week or the next for that.