a new place...

We've been thinking about moving into a new rental house for months now, even before we knew baby T was on the way.
With news of our growing family, we knew we needed to move somewhere with more space.

We have secured a rental house in a neighborhood (Crieve Hall) that we love.
It's an older, established neighborhood but has a beautiful mix of older couples and new families.
It reminds us a bit of where we lived in Durham.

We can start moving in on the 23rd of August & don't have to move out of this house until the 21st of September.
So, it will be a slow move-in process but it will work out well in that I'll hopefully have time to get some things unpacked & put away gradually rather than being overwhelmed in having to do it all at once.

Our new house...
is a brick, single-story,
has 3 bedrooms (a master, a nursery, & a guest room...yeah!!!),
has 1 bathroom (we were hoping for 2, but we've managed with 1 for this year so we can do it!),
has a patio & a fenced in back-yard,
has a nice kitchen, a dining room, a large living room,
has plenty of closet space (hooray!!!),
is 10-15 minutes from Belmont & Vanderbilt,
and is convenient to the best shopping in Nashville!

I don't have any pictures of the house yet but will definitely get some posted once we get moved & settled in.

The owner has been kind enough to allow us to arrange for the nursery to be painted.
It is currently a horrible shade of blue (not deep enough to be masculine, yet too blue to be girly).
We've settled on a nice shade of taupe (desert fortress) for the walls.
It will be nice & neutral & will work for a baby boy or girl.
I won't get tired of it too quickly (which I think I would if it was pink or blue).
The focus of the nursery will be not the color of the walls, but the colors I plan to bring into the space in the bedding and the decor.

I'm just so excited that we'll have a space specifically for baby T!!!
I can't wait to get busy decorating that space...