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Exciting week! This week we moved into our first new house since selling our home almost 3 weeks ago. We have decided to spend our first month in western Connecticut in a beach house. We choose the location for two main reasons: it's a close driving distance to some of my husbands' family and because vacation beach houses are cheap to rent in winter time. I mean super cheap. Like we opted for a larger, more spacious house to rent just because it was surprisingly an option. It would never be affordable in summer to spend a single vacation week at a place like this let alone a month, but once the bitter cold whips in to New England, it's houses like this one that are great for families in transition like us to scoop up and call "home" for a short while.This house is part of a harbor community so it must feel like a lively summer family-fun place in warmer weather. Lucky for us, most of the houses aren't rented out or owner occupied so it's perfectly private for our needs. The inviting living area overlooks a lovely view of the ocean inlet and the community ocean beach is just steps away at the end of our quiet street. We feel so lucky to find such an inviting house! And we can't wait to really explore the town, it's definitely a nice coastal area.
The house has three floors, and unconventionally set-up for optimizing the ocean views. The bedrooms are on the first floor and the living rooms are on the second (kitchen, living, dining, den) and third (family room). Each level has a balcony that must be amazing when the temperature is warmer to open the sliding glass doors to let the ocean air in.
The first floor has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. We let our toddler pick which room she'd like to set-up camp and she picked the one with fun dog and ant decorations. And her bathroom has a huge whirlpool tub so hoping to make bath time fun for her... she's been boycotting bath time lately like most toddlers go through so anything different or fun would hopefully help at this point. Plus who wouldn't like to chat with Kermit the Frog while brushing their teeth during bedtime routine? Fun!
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| Three large sliding doors overlook the ocean inlet |
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| Kitchen |
The house is decorated in a whimsical/artistic/eclectic flare and mixed with lots of Ikea furniture and accessories everywhere. I'm grateful for all the Ikea stuff because it's pretty indestructible for toddler and dog-proofing! Overall, the house is pretty bold with it's interior design (if you can call it that) paint choices of clashing oranges and yellows with the occasional neon green, but somehow it all ties together in a fun and entertaining way. But I have to say the one artistic flare I could do without is the statue painting overlooking the Dining room table - not what I would call an "appetizing" choice for looking at while eating family meals... but Keiki seems to think it's a man who is shot-putting so it's good comic relief. Our bedroom is cartoon jungle themed and the bedroom our two-year old chose was the red room with the separate beds, ants on the bedspreads, and dogs on the walls. Overall a fun bedtime experience, which will come in handy as she is transitioning away from her crib and moving to a big-girl-bed soon.
