Dining room with brown walls.

Yellow kitchen.

Picture of Living Room

Box fan in window with blowing curtain.

Bathroom with blue walls.

Green corner in bedroom with dresser.

Bedroom with green walls and flowered curtains.

Green and yellow painted walls.

Purple rowhouse with sunflowers and white picket fence.

Two years ago, we moved out of an very luxurious townhouse, to live in this colorful, but tiny Victorian row-house in Northwest Denver. We gave up storage space and a dishwasher, to live with character in a terrific neighborhood.

Last week we said goodbye.

Now we are in a brand new, very airy, and spacious home in a small town. We will be here for one year while we look for our first house to buy. Our first baby will be born in this house. Because we are renting and the landlord had this house built very recently, we’ll not be able to change any of the cream colored walls. After living in such a colorful house for two years, I’m at a complete loss as for how to decorate without painted walls.

I’m sure you’re dying to see the new house now! I’ll work on getting pictures up tomorrow. We’re still living out of boxes and I haven’t found the camera charger yet, so….we’ll see how it goes….

P.S. The final picture above was taken with my phone as we were pulling away for the last time, beginning our six hour drive to our new town, and I realized I had zero photos of the front of the house that I was leaving behind.

I can’t even keep track of the number of dishes I’ve broken since living in this old dishwasher-less house.

Here I am, tired on a busy morning. I have tons of school work and cleaning to accomplish before we go off skiing for the weekend. (This is our third year in Colorado, and only the first year we have skied, because we’re usually just barely getting through the week, without adding a lot of driving and exercise to the mix.)

But when I get myself to make coffee, put on some music, and this adorable apron that my talented little sister made me for a wedding, gift doing dishes without a dishwasher becomes a lot more tolerable. Almost fun! (Okay, that’s a lie!)

I love my pink dish gloves and various aprons. Aprons are especially important for me because we’ve lost the little round thingy that goes on the end of the faucet to direct the flow of water, so I always end up completely soaked in the front after doing dishes by hand. (I’ve also managed to break about 15 glasses this year. Housework is not my strong suit!!!!!! Hence, my extreme need for motivational attire.)

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