Home Sweet Bush House

We've been living in Wabuku for 6 months now, and I just now realized that I haven’t ever posted any pictures of our house!

One of the biggest blessings with moving into a tribal location that has previously had missionaries is that we didn’t have to build our own house when we moved in. But, it did require some intensive cleaning and renovating before we moved in to make it livable for our family. 

So, here are a few before, during, and after pictures of our house (sorry for the poor quality on some of them). Clint did most of the dirty work, and he did an amazing job, if you ask me! Yup, it's just a rustic bush house, but it's ours for now, and we are so thankful for it!

Pretty much the first room you see in our house when you walk in the front door is the kitchen. The above picture is before we made any changes. Not too bad, though you can't see all the junk and dirt in the cupboards.

 

During renovations. Clint knocked a hole in the wall to make the space seem more open. 

And, the finished product! New paint on the cupboards, new curtains, and a new chest refrigerator. Plus the hole in the wall.

Our dining room is right by our kitchen. This picture is before any changes.

 

And this is after.

I don't have very many good before pictures of our living room, but if you look past the island here in the kitchen, you can see into the living room. With the big blue flower painted on one wall. And that is a massive TV in the right hand corner in case anyone is interested. It was a BEAST to move!!

A picture during all the renovating and cleaning. Clint did an amazing job of sorting all this junk and throwing as much away as possible.

And the final product! It's usually a lot messier than this haha. And yes, that is Brooke sitting on the bench behind the curtain. :)

Ok, the last room I'll post pics of is our playroom. Don't see it in this picture? Well, it's behind that wall of cans. Originally, this hallway used to double as a pantry, but it made the house feel really closed, and the room behind the wall didn't have much use for us since there are already three bedrooms.

 

Here's a picture inside the room on the other side of the wall. Again, lots of junk and not really very usable for our family. Sooo... Clint went to work.

Knocked out a wall or two. Cleaned up a bunch of junk. Moved some chest freezers. And...

We have a nice playroom with a half wall to separate it some from the living room and hallway! The electrical stuff on the far wall is usually covered up by that tan curtain.

 

The chest freezers fit perfectly in the space. One we use for frozen foods, and the other one is broken. So we use it to store foods like crackers, rice, sugar, and milk powder that bugs and rodents might eat. The white box on the wall in the back corner is our hot water heater, powered by propane. Really thankful that we can have hot water in here!

It was a LOT of work getting this house in livable condition. But now it really feels like home, and we're thankful for it!