Our New Home in Central Oregon!

Friends, welcome to our new home in central Oregon! If you’re following me on Instagram, you’ve probably already seen our DIY projects to our fixer upper!

Yes, my family and I have moved to central Oregon, into a mountain home!

You can follow along on Instagram for the updates of our fixer-upper, but for now, I want to show you the before photos, as the house was before we bought it.

There’s so much history to this cute home, I can just feel it in the walls, in the “bones.”

Our new home in central oregon

I’ll start with the home being built in 1984, and it has never changed hands until now. We are the first to buy it after the owners had it built, with so many fun treasures left inside for us.

How it goes over here in central Oregon, where we are living, is when a mountain home is sold, usually the belongings stay with the house. Now most of the furniture that you see in the photos, etc. were removed, but there were a few wall hangings, rugs, and most of the kitchen left for us to sort through.

My favorite … Janie’s cookbooks!

She must have been a French baker, from what I can see. Also a pineapple! A true sign of hospitality!

I love the silverware.

The bikes were left in the garage, along with many tools, and other fun surprises.

The entire house is a mix between wood and brick floors.

Fixer Upper

When we pulled up to the home, it was so fun to walk in to our new home and dream about our lives in this new place, and how we would transform the home to make it perfect for our family.

Perfect for opening up to others, sharing it with the people that we love. (The perfect place to host a dinner, on this deck!)

Perfect for this next season in our lives.

Here are the “before” pictures. Stay tuned for all of the updates!

Since my husband and I both work from home, we took the “leap” of selling our home in the Rogue Valley, and moved to an area that we love, Central Oregon.

My husband, a writer (he has a new book coming out next month), has always dreamed of a more contemplative lifestyle, a quieter place to write and think and work. He will still fly in and out of the Redmond Airport for his work with The Protectors, but we are very excited to have this quieter season to try new things, after years of raising kids in the city, and Paul coaching soccer (for 18 years). We know there will be adjustments and changes, but we’ve decided to go for it, and always embrace a positive attitude.

There’s just something about the smell of the forest, the freshness of the mornings and the quietness of the evenings, the sound of the wind blowing the leaves on the aspen trees, the gorgeous river only a few steps away.

It’s all new to us. The river so close, so much to do in the outdoors!

A new chapter.

A beautiful place to be … where we have felt God has called us.

And now I get to share with you.

I’ll be posting the progress on the house, so stay tuned!