Well, we are moving once again. Yes, you read that right. Believe it or not, despite our many moves, I absolutely HATE moving. In fact, when we moved into our second house in North Carolina, I very loudly proclaimed to pretty much everyone I knew that I was not moving ever again. Haha! Well, unfortunately, college basketball can be a bit of a fickle profession and after living in that house for slightly less than a year we found out we were moving to Ohio. When we moved here last summer the girls and I  didn’t even see our house until after we had owned it for almost two weeks. The market was crazy and when we couldn’t find anything in the area we had zoned in on we kept drawing a bigger and bigger circle around the overall area and ended up with a house that was a pretty long commute for my husband but we hoped would be ideal for the girls and their school and all of their sports. It can be so hard moving to an area that we didn’t know really at all and trying to guess the right location.

Well, it turns out although the layout of the house was awesome and the setting of the house was absolutely beautiful (as you can see in the picture below, it had a wonderful backyard and pool) the location was not idea at all. Not only did my husband have a long commute but I was spending 4-5 hours in the car every day too. We really really did not want to move for the third straight summer but unfortunately also couldn’t figure out how we were going to continue making some things work without cutting down on some of our commuting so as much as it killed me to think of packing up everything once again and living through the complete chaos of moving we went ahead and pulled the trigger on it. We closed on our house yesterday and will close on our new home later today although we won’t be moving in for a few more days. That being said, the family that is buying our house is the absolute sweetest and although I    am sad, I am so so so excited for them. There is just something special about getting to know the family that is buying your house – we have been fortunate enough to have that happen several times over the years and I just love that experience.

I  don’t have a lot of time to write right now as I am a tad overwhelmed with packing so this post is mostly just pictures of what we have done this past year:

Here is the backyard which we are very much going to miss:

Now I’ll take you through the house starting from the front door, room by room and show you all of the progress we made. I didn’t even come close to doing all the projects I had in mind for this house but we did still get quite a bit done. So here are the Before and Afters – Final Tour of our first Ohio house.

First up is the entryway. Here is the BEFORE:

And here it is now:

Another BEFORE angle:

And now:

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Next up is our study. Here is a BEFORE:

And here it is now:

FOR ALL DETAILS AND SOURCE INFORMATION FOR THE STUDY CLICK HERE.

Next up is the dining room. The previous owners added locker style built-ins to one wall which made it so we couldn’t really fit our larger dining table in the space we it really wasn’t a true dining room anymore. I  initially thought I  was going to remove them so we could use it more as a dining room but honestly the lockers were quite handy. This was a space though that I never got to fully finish.

Here is the BEFORE:

And here is where I  got with it:

FOR ALL DINING ROOM SOURCE INFORMATION YOU CAN CLICK HERE.

Next up is the kitchen. Here is the BEFORE:

I  had big plans for the kitchen that I  didn’t get to, so the changes in here were pretty simple:

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Next up is the living room. Here is the BEFORE:

And now:

Another BEFORE angle:

And now:

Another BEFORE angle:

And now:

FOR ALL SOURCE INFORMATION FOR THE LIVING ROOM CLICK HERE.

Next up was our laundry room. Here is the BEFORE:

And now:

FOR ALL OF THE DETAILS AND SOURCE INFORMATION FOR THE LAUNDRY ROOM CLICK HERE.

And the back hallway off the laundry room BEFORE:

And now:

FOR ALL DETAILS AND SOURCES FOR THE BACK HALLWAY CLICK HERE.

Now moving upstairs to our bathroom. Here is the BEFORE:

We didn’t get to do the full makeover in here. We didn’t get to the shower or bathtub area, but we did do quite a bit:

Another before angle:

And now:

Another before angle:

and now:

FOR ALL OF THE DETAILS AND SOURCE INFO FOR OUR BATHROOM CLICK HERE.

Here’s a view from our bedroom into the bathroom:

And here is our bedroom. We didn’t get to do all we had planned in here but did some changes (and sorry, I can’t find a before picture):

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Next up is Lola’s room. Here is the BEFORE:

And here it is now:

FOR ALL DETAILS AND SOURCE INFORMATION FOR LOLA’S ROOM YOU CAN CLICK HERE.

Next up is Lola’s bathroom. Here is the BEFORE:

And here it is now:

FOR ALL OF THE DETAILS AND SOURCES FOR LOLA’S BATHROOM CLICK HERE.

Next up is Lillie’s room. Here is the BEFORE:

And here it is now:

FOR ALL DETAILS AND SOURCE INFORMATION FOR LILLIE’S ROOM CLICK HERE.

Next up is our guest room. This was probably one of my favorite makeovers in this house! Here is the BEFORE:

And here it is now:

Another BEFORE angle:

And now:

FOR ALL DETAILS AND SOURCE INFORMATION FOR OUR GUEST ROOM CLICK HERE. 

And then last is our backyard which we are really sad to leave:

Well, that’s it for now! I’m going to be knee deep in moving for the next week or two but then look forward to posting some photos of our new house once we are moved in and unpacked! If you’d like to see some of our other Before and After tours from our other homes you can see our second North Carolina house tour here, our first North Carolina house tour here, our Virginia rental here, our second Virginia house downstairs here and upstairs here, our first Virginia house downstairs here and upstairs here.

Warmly, Jenni