Matt and I purchased a home at the end of last summer. We looked at numerous homes in the Shreveport/Bossier area, but could not find a place that felt like home. Growing up I was always a country girl, and my neighbors were always family literally they were my grandparents, aunt, uncle, and an old couple we adopted as our grandparents. We usually had to drive or ride the 4 wheeler to our neighbors' houses because they didn't live so close you could walk out the door and hold a conversation with them. That is until Matt and I moved to Bossier and lived in an apartment. Now that is a big eye opener. We knew no one in the apartment complex and really didn't care to. I finally met our next door neighbor about a month before we moved out, but I still never adjusted to living so close to my neighors. I think what really kicked us into house hunting was the issue of waking up to no water 3 times in a month unannounced while we were in the apartment.
This is our kitchen.
We couldn't have asked for a better realtor than
Amber Floyd, and I would (and have) suggest her to anyone moving to Northwest Louisiana. Amber really made the home buying process as entertaining and painless as possible. She showed us numerous properties and was very patient with us.
We have a very open floor plan. This is the living room which is open to the kitchen and the dining room is right behind the fireplace.
After looking for about a month, we found our home. Our biggest concern was both of our commutes for work would be from Minden to Bossier or about 30 minutes per trip. Once we saw the home and weighed our options we were sold. We are about 5 minutes away from my in-laws and 35 minutes from my parents and 4 out of 5 of my siblings.
This is the back of the house. You can see what's inside this huge room in the next picture!
We have not really done much to the house yet. We will be painting and fixing a few things over the next few months. The pictures in this post are all from the realtor's online listing, so none of the furniture is ours.
Our indoor swimming pool which I can't wait to get ready for summer next week!
We have met most of our new neighbors. We live caddy corner to a Coca-Cola distributing plant. A few weeks after we moved in, we were welcomed to the neighborhood with a 6 pack of glass bottled cokes and tickets to the museum in town by our across the street neighbors who own the plant. They are really sweet Matt (his mom and her friend) has actually been over and had a coke with the elderly couple and was given a tour of the plant. I was at work and didn't get to enjoy that, but they were nice enough to let us take some of our engagement pictures with one of their old coke trucks.
