Flow of Home Tour

Today is a special tour where you will get to see the actual flow of our home. What room leads to where and quirky old house charm. Read on for our Flow of Home Tour.

Welcome to our little home by the sea. If you’re new and this is your first visit we live in a 1927 Dutch Colonial in Scituate Harbor, on Boston’s South Shore.

Seeing as it is winter, I thought I’d share a snowy photo. We currently don’t have any snow – this photo was taken last February.

Anyway, my good friend, Jennifer, over at Town & Country Living came up with the idea for this hop and I love the idea. It’s so fun seeing inside people’s homes.

Well, come on in and see our home:

Oh, our front door and shutters is painted in Benjamin Moore’s Buxton Blue in high gloss. I always get asked about it.

Front Hall

As soon as you walk through our front door you come into our front hall. We just refreshed this space last fall.

Can you believe that beautiful “tile” is actually a floor cloth.

It was on this very spot that I fell IN LOVE with our home nearly 7 years ago. I knew I wanted to live here forever. If you walk straight when you come into our home, you’ll end up in the kitchen. If you go left you’ll go up the stairs and if you go right you’ll be standing in our living room.

That’s a view of our front hall from the kitchen looking at the front door. Oh, that’s my hubby. He’s talking to our dogs, Max and Poppy, in this photo.

Let’s go into the living room.

Living Room

Our living room is long and narrow. So we’ve created two zones. A reading area by the fireplace and and lounging area by the TV.

The mantel is original but we redid the fireplace facing and hearth.

The fish print was created by my friend, Jeanne, who actually grew up in this home. You can read more about that here.

I love this built in cabinet. I think it was for wood but we store files and albums in here.

Through the french door is our kids’ playroom. Perhaps, I should take you in there now and then we’ll take a look at the dining room.

The Playroom

We redid the playroom last year. It was so nice to be able to add some grown up furniture for our boys’ space. This room gets so much light. We refreshed the room with fresh white paint on bookshelves and walls.

John and Conor really enjoy this space, whether it’s to read, play video games, do puzzles, or play their instruments. It’s currently a huge mess because they’ve been off on February break. I have a few updates to share with you soon.

You can see there are two french doors that lead to the playroom from the living room and dining room.

Okay let’s walk back into the living room and I’ll show you how it opens into the dining room.

Dining Room

Our living room and dining room are open plan and open onto each other with these period columns.

I love the dark woodwork in our home. We lightened all the wall colors over the past 7 years to highlight the richness of the wood.

The Welsh Dresser is antique I found on Facebook yard sale. The blue cabinet was a yard sale find which I painted.

Here’s how the room looked decorated for the holidays:

This is a view of the dining room from our kitchen:

Tiny Bathroom

Just inside the kitchen we have a teeny tiny bathroom, with a corner sink and corner toilet. It used to the the pantry and a previous owner converted it to a bathroom.

I added the “WC” to the door because my hubby is English 😉

It’s a pretty small space so hard to get a good photo:

My husband built me this cabinet for all my laundry supplies.

I’m actually hoping to remove this bathroom and make it part of the kitchen, so we can have a better flow in our kitchen.

Kitchen

Our kitchen has 4 doorways, a peninsula, a teeny island from Ikea, and the fridge in the back hall. So there’s a lot I would love to change in here, BUT this is what I currently have to work with.

We’ve made small changes – painting the walls, cabinets, stick on subway tile, new hardware, runners etc, but in time we’re hoping to do a big kitchen remodel. So, if any companies want to work with us. I kid, but honestly would love the help!!!! 😉

EVERYTHING happens in the kitchen. From Conor’s pizza nights.

To John’s studio sessions:

Every inch of our home gets used. 😉

Through the back door is our sunroom. It’s a three-season room but we’d love to turn it into an all year space.

I painted the floors our here and it made such a huge difference to the space. The mid century chairs were also new.

To give you an idea – this is the sunroom from outside:

Boy, I can’t wait for summer and pool weather!!!

Okay, let’s go upstairs and see the rest of our home.

This is a cool view of the front hall from the stairs.

My husband’s office is right at the top of the stairs.

Home Office

My husband works from home and his office is right behind this area – at the top of the stairs.

We painted the walls a moody blue green and added some masculine accents.

Upstairs Hallway

This isn’t the best photo (it’s old) but all the rooms run off our long upstairs hallway. The first door on the left is the bathroom, the boys room on the right, then the guest room on the left and our bedroom straight down the hall. Our bedroom was actually an addition by a previous owner and the house ended at our doorway. Part of the hall used to be the guest room and the kids’ bedroom was the original master bedroom.

Bathroom

We only have one full bathroom in our home which we share with our kids. We updated this space in the fall with some paint and coastal elements.

Next up down the hall is the boys’ bedroom which they share.

Boys’ Bedroom

Their bedroom is very much coastal in theme.

Since dong their room over and replacing the ceiling. I’ve added new lighting and a new rug.

Guest Room

Our guest room is going through a little transition as I’m redoing it, but this is what it looked like before the holidays. A few years ago I converted the space to a multi-purpose room for work and guests.

Master Bedroom

The last stop on our “flow of home” tour is our bedroom. We redid our room completely a few years ago – adding board and batten and hardwood floors. I really love how serene and relaxing our room feels.

I hope this gave you a better idea of the flow of our home! I sure enjoyed taking you on a tour! If you’re interested in any sources, you can find them here or leave a comment below.

Be sure to visit all my friends taking part!

MONDAY’S TOURS

Town and Country Living / Finding Silver Pennies / Worthing Court

TUESDAY’S TOURS

Zevy Joy / Rooms for Rent

WEDNESDAY’S TOUR

In My Own Style

THURSDAY’S TOUR

Southern Hospitality / Making It in the Mountains