My husband and I have purchased a few houses over the years, moved around a lot, but this is by far my favorite house.  I really couldn’t tell you what the style of the house is, on the outside.  It looks much like all the other houses in the area, not so much in shape, but style and technique.  In fact, it seems to be a popular style in most of the suburbs here in the Mustang/Yukon area.  Inside is another matter, however.  That is really where my husband and I fell in love with the place.  There is so much dark woodwork features everywhere.  As we were looking at several houses, we noticed ourselves being drawn to ones that had lots of wood trim and features, as opposed to trim and features that were painted white.  The wood seems to warm the place up for us.  The study or office (first picture in the blog) also reminded me of my childhood.  Above the entrance to the room are wide open slots.  I had a a great aunt who had a town home that had those kind of features in the rooms.  I believe they were traditionally to allow for air flow before air-conditioning was common.  I used to pretend I was a young girl from some victorian time period (probably not accurate, but I was a kid) and our new house brings me back to that joy.  The family room (bottom picture) has huge bookcases, which is another feature that drew me to the house.  I love books and do not ever get rid of any, even if I have duplicates.  So I need a large set of shelves to keep them, and these bookshelves make my eclectic collection look like they would belong in the grandest of libraries.  I have, unfortunately, ran out of room in these shelves now, however.

With all the amazing carpentry features in this house, it did not take it long for me to feel like it was my home.