Our New House in North Carolina!

If you’re a regular reader, then you know that we’re moving AGAIN next month.  If you’re not a regular reader, then here’s the quick background:  my husband is a career Army officer (20+ years) and we move every 1-3 years for his job.  Since we started this blog 4-1/2 years ago, my family has lived in this house in Fayetteville, North Carolina:

 

This house in Nashville, Tennessee:

 

And this house in Savannah, Georgia:

 

As an aside, if you’re a renter, the first {yellow} house is a rental, and the above house is military quarters {very similar to a rental}, so you might find some good ideas for rental decor in my home tours. I also wrote a post about decorating rental homes {here}.

Our next house is located in Southern Pines, North Carolina, and I’m so excited to be able to show you a few photos of the exterior today, because it is a beautiful home and I can’t wait to move in and start decorating!

Here it is:

It’s in a lovely, established neighborhood of older homes, and this particular one began life as a ranch, but was taken down to the rafters and rebuilt less than 10 years ago.  The second story was added at that time.

Our current home in Savannah is the smallest one that we’ve lived in for quite a few years, so we’re really looking forward to being able to spread out again.  My husband can’t wait for me to have a separate office for blogging and our Etsy shop that isn’t smack dab in the middle of the kitchen (can’t imagine why!), and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to walk through the downstairs without hopscotching over sleeping dogs.  That might not happen; they seem to automatically camp out exactly underfoot no matter how large the house is!

And no, we probably don’t have enough furniture to fill this house…but that will be part of the fun, right?  Shirley from Housepitality Designs won’t be too far away, and I know she’ll show me all the best places to score beautiful antique and vintage bargains.

The backyard is beautiful and I hope to be able to relax on the deck after I unpack boxes all day, every day:

And down the steps, through the trees, is the thing that makes my husband’s heart go pitter-pat:

The fairway of one of the prettiest golf courses in the Southern Pines/Pinehurst area!

We were so fortunate–blessed, really–to find this house.  I’ll have to tell the story in a separate post; maybe after I go up to paint at the end of the month and snap some interior shots to share with you all.  It’s really an amazing story and I have no doubt that it’s exactly where God wants us to be. {Update:  see all the posts about this house here}

And for those of you who know how much I’ve disliked the yucky dark cabinets in the kitchen of our Savannah house, I’m happy to report that this beautiful kitchen sports WHITE CABINETS–yay!!  He is faithful in even the little things.

I can’t wait to share this new house with you as we make it home! {Click here if you’d like to be included on our email list–get an email every time we post, and never any spam!}

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