Our Home - Mom & Dad don't look if you want to be surprised

We have now been in our new home for 3 full months and I really can't remember not living here. Funny how that happens. People ask if it was hard to move into such a big space after an apartment....are you kidding me? :)
Do to how the pictures uploaded I will begin upstairs.
You are looking into the playroom. Go down a few stairs to the 1/2bath. The playroom. Upstairs. Family roomGuest roomGuest bath

Master. Ironically the curtains matched our bedding! All the closests are cedar lined. Whoohoo! A closet big enough to store the ugly metal filing cabinet!The master has 2walk-in closets and both have shoe holes. I only put details like this because most houses we walked into when searching didn't have near the detail this one has.

Why cedar? The humidity creates lots of mold on anything that is slightly wet and is stored in an area w/out airflow. However, both of the closets are airconditioned....seriously...details you wouldn't even imagine. Master bathWhoohoo again! 2 sinks

Darton's room. A lot of houses we looked at had closets like his that are built into the wall. Dman's bath. The one thing that stuck out the most to me were the forest green bathrooms...as in I didn't like the house b/c of. sillinessD's bathroom as a skylight. I give this detail b/c D locked himself into his bathroom the other day when I was gone. Theo, our gardener, climbed onto the roof to see Darton and to make sure he was ok. Darton was ok. But the door frame...not so much. Seriously if Theo wasn't there I don't know what Ana would have done...I don't know what I would have done!

Adeline's room. The room was painted this way when we arrived. I LOVE IT! Adeline LOVES her pink bathroom.

Let's go back downstairs now....from the outside.

You enter from the outside either via the metal door or the metal carport gate. View when you walk onto our property. The metal door on the far right leads you to the pool area. Oh...and the sauna too! I know, seriously, a sauna in the tropics! But Scott LOVES it. When you walk into our front door. Note the shrine to TX on your right ;) Thank you Nonna & Andrew for making this shrine possible. If you walk through the sala (living room) pass the sets of glass doors, you enter the comedor (dining room).But if you turn left after the entry way and don't walk through the sala, you enter the cocina (kitchen). The 2nd kitchen is the room after the doorway and you can go left to go outside to the laundry area or right into the comedor. 2nd kitchens are common. This one has the setup for another stove, but there isn't one. I believe they are created due to the amount of heat caused by cooking and there are never air cons in kitchens. The laundry area. There's a small basketball court in the back left and above the green awning is the trabajadora's room. Pero Ana duerme en nivel 2 con nosotros.

To the right of the sala. Looking out to the terraza.

Looking in from the terraza. Our backyard. Darton was watering for me. The pool. We put in the gate after we moved in. The orchid garden and outside bbq. Orchids don't need soil to grow in, just something to latch their roots onto. Therefore there are lots growing from the various trees in the yard. Backside of the house. That's Theo in watering. Off to the side of the carport is the house for the generator. Notice the white diesel tank for it as well. The generator runs most days anywhere from 1-6 hours. It is automatic (Praise God for real!) and only takes 2 seconds to come on after the electricity goes out.

We also have a small house for the water pump on the property and an outside bath for Theo. If any problem occurs with the generator or water pump Theo is the man! Even if he's not working at my house, he's there in 10 minutes and I'm only out $50RD ($1.50US) for his time.

SOOOO I've posted a ridiculous amount of pictures to make sure that you know that you DO DEFINATELY have a place to stay here in the DR :)

There are a couple of plants I want to take pics of as well as the street we live on...next post.