Move In Day House Tour: The Creek Classic

I’m doing this entire “blogging about our new house” all in the wrong order. Somehow, between building a house, moving in, getting settled, and trying to decorate a bit, I completely forgot to post our move in day house tour of The Creek Classic!

Full disclaimer: this house tour includes a lot of empty rooms and blank white walls, so it’s not going to offer a lot in the way of inspiration and may not be interesting for everyone. I will include sources and product names when I can. And for those of you who are curious about seeing the entire designing-building-decorating process of a new build home from start to finish, this will give you a pretty good idea of the layout of our home and how far we’ve come already, as you can see in my bathroom reveal post and our eclectic Christmas home tour.

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Let’s start on the main floor and walk through the house. Also, for reference, our floor plan is posted here. And unless mentioned otherwise, the cabinetry, walls, and trim are all Benjamin Moore Decorators White.

The Creek Classic Move In Day; New Build House Tour

The day we started moving in was extremely sunny, which makes for difficult interior photography. These photos are definitely more for documentation than artistic expression.

Our entry way stumped me a bit from a design standpoint, but once I found the perfect sized bench, it all came together. Read more about that in my Christmas home tour. Our capiz chandelier was a Wayfair find and has since been discontinued, but you can find similar here, here, and here.

To the right of our entry way is my office. Somehow we were short a few boards of our hardwood flooring, so this room wasn’t finished on move in day. If you look closely to the left, you can see the start of the gap in the flooring, and the quarter round also wasn’t installed. It’s all done now! 🙂 The light was purchased here, and I LOVE the look, but because the bead coverage is pretty tight on the bottom of the fixture, it doesn’t give off a ton of light. It does cast pretty cool shadows all over the room, but would maybe be a better choice for a bedroom, where bright direct light for working isn’t a necessity.

To the left of our entry is the hall leading to our mudroom. The door on the left is to our powder room, which I don’t have pictures of (flooring was also missing in that space), and the double doors on the right are a large coat closet. I love that our bathroom is tucked away from the main living/entertaining space, but still easily accessible both from the mudroom and from the entry area.

The flush mount lighting is from Build.com and I used it in all of our hallways, as well as the bonus room and the fourth bedroom upstairs. I did NOT want boob lights anywhere in the house, but attractive flush mount lighting isn’t cheap. These alabaster shade flush mounts are huge at 20 inches, and probably overkill on lighting, with four bulbs. But they are usually $70+, and for some reason they were clearing out the antique brass finish, which is what I wanted anyway, so we bought them for about $16 each!! A similar light in nickel finish can be purchased here (three light) and here (two light).

We lost the shoe storage tower from our old mudroom, but we honestly haven’t missed it. I was the only one who used it anyway, and now I just keep most of that stuff in our master closet or tucked into the hall coat closet.

We still had room for a smaller bench, and it honestly gets used more as a place to pile mail, but I’m glad we have it.

Our new lockers are significantly wider than the ones at our old house, and since move in day, I’ve added white baskets above and below that hide a multitude of shoes and other miscellaneous kids’ items. The coat hooks are from The Container Store, and they look amazing. One of the holes is slightly higher than the other, but I think that’s pretty common with coat hooks.

One last view of the mudroom!

If you walk straight ahead from the entry way, you pass the stairs and enter our living room.

The built ins, mantle, and surround above the mantle were all custom built by Oleg of Cabco Cabinetry. I can’t say enough about the quality of his work.

The marble surround was finished and installed by Granite and Marble Direct. I was absolutely giddy the day it went in! You can’t tell from the pictures, but the slab actually wraps around to the sides too. It is one slab cut into three pieces and installed to look like a seamless wrap. Definitely one of my favorite design features in the house!

Like many modern homes, the kitchen and living room are open concept, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Our main floor makes a loop, with access to the mudroom from both the entry and the kitchen. Pocket doors can be closed both in the entry way and the above pictured doorway from the kitchen to the mudroom. Easy access, but also easy “hide the mess.” 😉

While I love a white kitchen, and there’s not really a more timeless choice, IMHO, I wanted something that packed a bit more of a punch. Our perimeter cabinetry is Benjamin Moore Decorator’s White (color matched in the cabinet lacquer Oleg uses), but we went with a bold black range hood in Sherwin Williams Tricorn Black (also color matched). I talk more about our kitchen design inspiration here, and the original reveal is here.

Our island is Sherwin Williams Stardew, also color matched. This color is so interesting, because in different light, it looks anywhere from bluish grey to almost periwinkle.

The GE Cafe appliances in Matte White were a must have for me, and I actually ended up picking the white paint color because of them. I originally had a slightly warmer Sherwin Williams color called Pure White picked, but I didn’t love it next to the appliances.

I hunted online for ages to see what white people were using with the GE Cafe appliances, but couldn’t find any helpful info. I ended up going with my gut, and the Decorator’s White works perfectly with the Matte White of the GE.

Our counter tops and the range back splash are MSI Quartz Statuary Classique, and they really have the look of statuary marble. I wanted something timeless yet modern, and I’d say they really hit the mark!

Our dining room chandelier is a Capital Lighting fixture from Build.com. You may remember from my inspiration post that I wanted something beaded, but Adam vetoed that plan. I do love what we decided on!

Moving upstairs now… At the top of the stairs is a long hall that stretches in both directions. I must have forgotten to take one going the other direction. Let’s work our way from the bonus room down to the other end.

When you come to the top of the stairs, the hall stretches straight ahead, and the bonus room is at the farthest end. There is clearly a lot of Southern exposure in this room, as you can tell from the blown out portion of the room. Read about the “happy accident” in this space here.

In order to carve out this space, there is one step down into the bonus room, and the walls are slightly angled. I love that this gives it just a little bit more personality. I have grand plans for this room long term, but for now it’s pretty well covered in American Girl Doll paraphernalia.

Here is the window letting in all of that glorious natural light! And it offers a pretty nice view of our pond.

This is the bonus room angle taken from the window alcove. The door into the room is to the left.

Coming back out of the bonus room, the first room on the right is the spare bedroom upstairs. This is the only photo I have of it, because it is just a boring blank bedroom.

Kaden’s room is the next bedroom on the right (or just to the left of the top of the stairs). He really gravitates to Mid Century Modern style, and he picked this light out himself. I love that he really knows very little about design, but that he has opinions, and that his opinions are almost always modern.

Another angle of Kaden’s room shows the wall his bed is on. His room is fairly long and narrow, which has been interesting compared to his very large square bedroom at our old house, but I think we have an arrangement that works for now. We have grand plans of building a loft here in the hopefully-not-too-distant-future.

Directly across the hall from Kaden’s room is the kids’ bathroom. Their vanity is HUGE. I think it’s 104 inches wide, if I remember correctly. I wanted to do something fun and a bit different in here, and I have visions of a future “jewel box” bathroom, so we went with a fun pop of color in the cabinetry. I narrowed it down to four colors and then the kids and I decided together which was our favorite. We ended up with SW Rapture Blue. About two weeks after I made that selection, I saw the exact same color in the latest HGTV Magazine, and I knew I had a winner. The counter tops are Maple White quartz, the most budget friendly quartz option in stock at Granite and Marble Direct. I absolutely love that there is a door between the toilet and shower room and the vanity. With a boy and a girl, it makes sharing a bathroom so much easier!

In the above picture, the door on the left is the kiddo bath and the one on the right is Kaden’s room. Let’s keep moving down the hall…

When you walk around the corner after the staircase, there is a linen closet on the right and the laundry room directly after it. This is my least favorite room in the house, and not just because I hate doing laundry. 😉 We didn’t want to spend the money for custom cabinets above the washer and dryer, and we plan on coming up with some creative storage solution soon, but for now, all of my laundry detergent and supplies are in a big plastic bin on top of the washing machine. True confessions: this room is a hot mess just about all of the time.

I do love our LG washer and dryer though! They are the updated version of the same ones we had at our old house that I spent four months researching. I have a super sensitive nose, and I’ve heard horror stories about front load machines, so I wanted to make sure I bought something that wouldn’t stink, OR make our clothes stink. Success! These are seriously awesome. And they’re stackable, if space is an issue.

Stepping out of the laundry room, Arabella’s room is the first door on the right. Besides the master, she has the biggest room in the house, which works out well, since she already had a double size mattress and box spring and two nightstands.

Her chandelier is one I had saved on Wayfair, but then I found for half price brand new in the box on Facebook Marketplace… Score! Adam wasn’t quite as excited about my find, as he had to drive halfway across the metro to pick it up on his already-way-too-long commute, but he loves me and he obliged. Thanks, Babe!

I’ll be making over her room for the Spring One Room Challenge starting April 1, and my brain is constantly sifting through plans. Let me just say this. Her room is going to be BOLD. Which suits her completely. 🙂

The last space on this floor is our master suite. I LOVE the double doors. When they are both open, it just creates the illusion of so much more space, and it lets more light into the hallway. Well, and it’s just really cool. 😉 This was one of my dad’s contributions to our plan. When he saw the angled wall leading into our room, he suggestion double doors, and I knew right away that it was a genius idea. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that myself!

I believe our chandelier was an Overstock find, but I can’t find a record of it anywhere. I’ll update this once I figure it out. The door to the left of the window leads into our bathroom.

You can check out the full (and updated) reveal of our master bathroom here.

As shown in the reveal, our shower doors are now in, and we have a fun colorful rug to cozy up the space too!

Our closet is through the door to the right of our vanity. In every house we’ve built, we’ve entered the closet through the bathroom. My dad suggested it in our town home because we had a small-ish bedroom, and he thought eliminating a door in the space would help the room’s layout. He was right, and now I wouldn’t have it any other way.

On the day we moved in, all that was in the space were some Ikea Billy bookcases for the closet DIY I had planned. In our last home, we told the builder we’d have them leave out the cheap builder grade wire closet junk and do something custom when we moved in, but they convinced us to have them install the wire since we wouldn’t get a credit back for it anyway. We NEVER changed them in the 5.5 years we lived there.

I wasn’t going to make that mistake again, so this time we left them out, which forced me to figure out a better solution immediately. Every muscle in my back and shoulders was screaming at me when I finished building our closet, but I’m so glad I did it. It’s still a work in progress, but already so much better than what we had at the last house. Reveal of my Ikea Billy closet hack coming soon!

That wraps up the upstairs, so the only thing left to do is head to the basement…

When you get to the bottom of the stairs, turn right and it there is a door into the mechanical and storage room. No one needs to see that! 😉 Straight ahead is Adam’s beloved workout room. He painstakingly cut these rubber floor mats (purchased from a farm company – they are made for horse’s stalls! But he’s not the first person to repurpose them) to fit, but it was worth the time because he works out frequently, and he assures me this is way better than him sweating all over carpet. Even though it cost a bunch more. 😉 Honestly though, it makes me so happy to see how excited he is about this room!

Just to the left of the workout room is this bathroom. The counter tops are the same Statuary Classique that’s in the kitchen, and the mirror was a Home Goods find.

I forgot to mention it, but the lighting here is the same as in the other bathrooms, and I found it all at Build.com.

To the left of the bathroom is the future guest room (currently housing the drum set we bought Kaden for Christmas). The chandelier was originally intended for our bedroom, but when we ended up one flush mount short of what we ordered, I had to move some things around. I found the chandelier I ended up using in our bedroom and liked it better, so I brought this one downstairs. Although this one is pretty cool too! The picture doesn’t show it, but the scale of it is actually pretty large, so it makes a definite statement. For some reason I don’t have a record of where this one is from either, but I’ll update soon.

The rest of the basement is one large room. Besides a sectional, some white Ikea cabinets we brought from our old house, and our piano, there isn’t much currently in this space, so it’s a great place for the kids to be a bit wilder.

The piano is currently against that little wall on the right.

We have future plans for a foosball, pool, or air hockey table in this space, but right now we play a bunch of fun made up ball games (hall ball, wall ball, etc…) here, so the kids want to wait a while before we fill the space.

That wraps up our move in day home tour. I’d love to hear your thoughts! Stay tuned, as there will be lots of updates in the near future. Sources are below, as well as a few more photos of the house. I’d also like to give a big shout out to the entire Precision Homes team that made our house happen!