This New Santa Clara House!

It's been a super long time since the last post, so we've slowly been accumulating things like furniture and random pieces of cloth to put over our windows. Yes, at one point in time we had 2 foosball tables but still don't have curtains or baseboards anywhere in the house yet. :p
We also got into the Christmas spirit and decorated the house for the holidays! I'll post pics of our house lights and lights from our neighbours soon too.



This is the view from the living room fireplace looking towards the kitchenette. The room is still pretty bare, but we do have an interesting picture hanging by the front door. It's an original ad for our neighbourhood when the housing development was built in the 50's. The monthly mortgage payment was $68 and veterans didn't have to make a down payment!


This is the view of the kitchen from the pantry. You can see the front door on the right too. We recently got a dishwasher! The final appliance to buy is the fridge, but we're doing ok with the only thing we inherited with the house that works. :)

This is the kitchen looking towards the front of the house. That's a wreath outside the window and a ghetto homemade "curtain" in the meanwhile before we get the windows renovated. :p

This is the dining area, which is in our big entertainment room. The table is a recent purchase also, from World Market. I had to drive all the way up to Marin just to get the chairs, and it took both our cars to get the rest of the set but it's worth it. The set is really nice and matches perfectly with everything else. We got a table that seats 8 so we can host those BAD carbo-loading parties properly now. :)

This is the family room which is being seen from the garage door. That's the new foosball table donated by one of my friends, on the left and Jai's crappy old Garzoni loveseat waiting for Santa Clara's open garbage day when you can basically throw away anything you want and the city will pick it up! The loveseat covers up the open piping we left intact for a future bar we want to install there though.

This is the new sofa set and coffee table. The coffee table is also from World Market, but the sofa was from a random local furniture store we happened to check out one day.

This is the current state of the backyard... not pretty but way less scary than when we moved in. We're planning to re-sod the grass and I'm going to plant a garden in the spring and re-paint that fence also.

Thanks for looking! :)