Tour of Homes: Casa Verde

Since most of you will not get a chance to see the Casa Verde in person, I thought I'd give you all a little virtual tour of our home in Mexico.

Here is the front of our house - quite green. You will see through-out our little tour how fond Mexicans are of bright colors.

This is the fire pit we made out of broken Innotec blocks.

This is the grill Michael made out of scrap metal from the plant.

Here is a look at our backyard. It gets very windy!

We have a nice large entryway - the first thing you see when you come into our house is the kitchen table. The table, chairs, and cabinet came with the house. I looooooove the cabinet, which is where we keep all our dishes and glasses. One of the great features of this house is the beautiful marble floor found in almost every room. Can you imagine how much that would cost in Michigan?

This is a view of our kitchen from the room where the kitchen table is.

And this is the view from our living room. The kitchen has three doors - one goes into the living room, one into the entryway, and the door you see in this picture leads to the laundry room.

This is our laundry room where we also keep our cleaning supplies and food for all the animals.

This is a view of the living room from the entryway.

This view is from the kitchen.

And this view is from the far side of the room - you can see the kitchen through one door and our entryway through the other. The water cooler is in the corner.

This is a view of our table from the kitchen - and our long hallway where the bedrooms are located. You can see one of Michael's purchases leaning against the wall - another duckie for whitewater adventures in the future.

This bedroom is being used for storage.

One of our spare rooms where guests sleep. My sister slept here when she came for a visit with my parents.

And another spare room - my parents' room.

Both these bedrooms have built-in storage space. Michael and I use one of the rooms for some of our clothing.

This is our bedroom - a king-size bed! I think we're getting spoiled.

This bathroom is located right off our bedroom. We also have a nice walk-in closet.

This bathroom - affectionately called the blue room - is located right off the entryway near the living room. I wasn't kidding about the bright colors. Blue floor, blue walls, blue ceiling, blue sink, blue toilet, even a blue toilet seat.

And now... the green room. Yup. Green floor, green ceiling, green walls, green sink, green shower... Notice how they topped everything off with a green toilet seat. Not exactly the right shade - but hey, it's green. Good enough.

For some reason, all our light fixtures look like this. This is not only the case in our house, but in most houses we have been in. Not sure why they decided to leave the wires and bulb dangling out of the fixture, but whatever. Another charming feature of a Mexican casa.

I hope you enjoyed your tour. And you didn't even have to pay admission or wear those nasty little booties over your shoes!