A Little Tour of Our Place

I always enjoy seeing the homes of my blog friends. Home is my favorite place to be and I know many of you feel the same way. Home is where we build a solid foundation for our children. Where we grow closer and learn to work together as well as play together. I thought I'd give you a little glimpse of where we do life!

Here's the front of the ranch house that we call home. Our house is a little over 2,000 square ft. which I feel is just perfect for our family. I would not want anything larger to take care of! The day I took these pictures was rather cloudy as you can tell. We have been in our home for nine years now and we have made many changes over the years to make this place our own! The room to the far left used to be our garage but we converted it into an office/guest room. Darrell works from home a day or two each week and it was necessary for him to have a quiet place for teleconferences.

A view of or house and shed from the bottom of the hill. We have 5 acres and most of it is actually in the wooded area surrounding our yard.

A different view of the front yard from the driveway.

One of the new trees we planted last fall and one of our raised garden beds in the distance.

View form my front porch. We need to pressure wash the sidewalk from the looks of this picture! There's always something that needs to be done, but we just try to do a little at a time!

Our little front porch and a LOT of landscaping. We used to mulch this entire area every spring. That was SO much work and money spent every year. Not to mention that our dogs would run through it and track it everywhere. Since our porch is pretty much even with the ground, rain would always wash the mulch onto the porch. It was just a messy situation all the way around! I was constantly sweeping mulch off of the porch and sidewalk. Last year, we "bit the bullet" so to speak and put down landscaping rock. It was hard work rather expensive up front but it will pay for itself soon since we will no longer have to buy and spread truckloads of mulch each year. No more messy mulch to sweep up constantly. I'm so happy we did this!

We are working towards simplifying things around here and making it easier to maintain things. This project was a huge step in that direction.

Screened porch off of the back. We spend a lot of time on our porch. We honestly consider it to be one of the rooms of our house! All of those rocks lining our landscaping came from the ground when they were building the house. We have tons of that rock in our ground. We have built fire pits with it and given some to friends for fire pits. It's great to have so much available for projects, but not so great for gardening! We have to use raised beds because we can't plant in he rocky ground. That's the Tennessee hills for ya!

This is just a portion of our driveway. We are 1/4 mile from the road so there's a lot more of our driveway that I didn't get pictures of.

Well there's the little tour of our place. We have enjoyed raising our children here where they've had room to explore and enjoy being outside. No matter where you live, it is important to make it home and be grateful. Our place is nothing extravagant, but we love it just the way it is. It feels right for us and we enjoy practicing hospitality when we can!