The house is made of stone, tan stone with white trimmed windows. The large yard is partially fenced in with a huge evergreen tree in the front at the corner of the house. There are two horses in the yard, one in the front by the sidewalk leading to the porch that were hardly ever used, and one beside the porch to the left of the door. The porch makes the house in an L shape, but the side of the small piece is the garage. There is a small metal door, we had no idea its intended use but we used it for play. It latches and unlatches with a little box inside and a door on the inside of the garage as well. I don’t remember the garage very well. It had 2 inside doors aside from the actual one for a car. There is a fridge that was meant for drinks and ice cream only beside one, the one leads to what used to be an extra lounge room but in time became grandpa’s pool room. And the other leads to the kitchen. Walk in the front door and there is a tiny coat closet with all of our board games and a magic light that turns off once the door latches. I never figured out how exactly the mechanism worked. In front of the entry way to the right is the dining room with a grand shelf set and a gorgeous dining room table. To the left is the living room, its changed several times. I think my favorite was the red couch. There has always been one constant, grandpa’s recliner. Most of what I remember of the living room is during Christmas time. The tree covering up one entrance of the hallway, the TV in the corner of the room, against where the closet is but on the other side of the wall. A couch underneath the window beside the TV, another couch under the window on the wall beside the first and grandpa’s chair directly opposite the TV. The couches moved and altered depending on what furniture my grandma had in the house at the time, felt like they had new furniture all the time. The Hallway, if you could really call it that, had 3 doorways. The one on the left went to my grandparents bedroom. They had such a big bed, a table for each side, and a huge dresser against the wall with the door. It covered the whole wall and had a mirror just as big on top of it. The wall opposite the bed had a closet, it mostly had my grandpas dress shirts and ties and nice clothes for church on Sundays. The middle door was the bathroom. the right side was about half cabinets with a counter in between the top and bottom sets, the farthest cabinet to the left was a fancy half open that was used as a hamper. The other half of the wall was the shower, it had one of those terrible opaque sliding doors, but was also a tub so it didn’t go all the way down to the floor. Opposite the shower was the toilet in the corner of the bathroom, and next to it was a half wall that connected the sink. The sink had a mirror above it, just like a normal bathroom sink would. Right next to this was more upper and lower cabinets, no counter in between these though. The last door was the Den. It was really just Grandma and Grandpa’s office. There was a book shelf on the left wall right when you walk in, grandpa’s desk was the first one you saw, facing the wall with the bookshelf. He had all kinds of stuff back there. Grandma’s desk sat in the back alcove area of the office facing grandpas. It had one big filing cabinet behind it and a bookshelf. We always hid underneath grandma’s desk. The Hallway had two openings right next to each other, one leading into the living room and one in the dining room. The dining room was almost directly connected to the kitchen. There was a bar with chairs that us kids usually occupied. and of course the large table and shelf area. There was a doorway for the spare bedroom connected to the kitchen and on the right side of the doorway there was a cabinet and counter. It was super small, literally just the width of one standard size cabinet. It was the snack area. If there was a snack to be found it was in those two cabinets. It was the only place in the house with a sweets drawer. Connected to this cabinet was the fridge. There was another door that led to the smaller bathroom on the other side of the fridge. Then there was the garage door and beside that door there was cabinets above and below and right in the middle was the oven. Cabinets wrapped all the way around the kitchen area except the above the sink. The stove top was right next to the oven, and the counter wrapped in a U shape the sink was next, with the dishwasher to the left, Lazy Susan cabinet to the right. The cabinets above the bar held cereal and our pretty metal cups. The bar lowered slightly to allow for a counter area that we sat at. The extra bed room changed a couple of times. The most vivid memories I have were when there were two beds. One was blue and one was orange. There was a table in the middle of the two, and glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling, it helped with the fear of being left alone in the dark. Connected to the spare bedroom was a smaller bathroom, decked out in orange and bright pinks. It small, just big enough for a toilet and a sink with a mirror right above it. The shower was connected to the spare bedroom and Grandpa’s pool room. Grandpa’s pool room was also the laundry room. There was a sink, the washer, and the dryer that were all on the wall to the right, with the door to the garage. Grandpa’s pool table dead center taking up a large portion of the room. A little alcove area to the left, it had the hot water heater or whatever it was but there was a shelf above it. It held a lot of different things but the one thing I remember was an old timey phone. On the back wall of the room on the left was the door to the outside. The part of the yard that was fenced in was big, a big tree in the back yard with a tire swing that looked like a horse. Sometimes, during the summers, there would be a pool set up and the sprinkler of course. There was a huge propane tank in between the house and the church. I don’t remember much of the church, just that I spent a lot of time there before I stopped going all together.
