Our New Home

We have a house!

The process of finding a home, signing a lease, and moving in was actually one of the easiest we have done ever. We moved into a home on-post, which is something we initially thought we wouldn't want. Usually, living on-post means bad housing (the Army is known for it's crappy accommodations), significant distance from the outside world and activities, and an overall pain-in-the-butt lifestyle. Finding housing off-post was becoming difficult so we decided to cover all of our bases and see the on-post housing. 

View from front porch

I'm so glad we did! We got to see two different homes, one that was new construction and one that was historic. While the historic housing was beautiful, it is further away from things and we kept getting bit by bugs while looking at the outside of the home (we took that as a sign). So we chose a new-construction home near the middle of post. We figured out that living on-post only added about five minutes to our travel time to go places and actually put us closer to the North Shore, which is where we'd go to the beach. Plus, on-post housing was available right away and living in that hotel room was getting old.

This home is two-story, which is a bit of an adjustment as well as a great leg workout! It's in a neighborhood with other majors and colonels. Outside our front door is a huge lawn for kids to play on as well as a playground, and less than two blocks away is a huge park and the community center. We can walk to the Commissary and PX as well as one of the five pools available to us on Schofield.

Future eating area and back yard

We have a detached 2-car garage, a decent-sized back yard, and a back porch. The kitchen has an eating area off one end and a potential family room on the other. The oven/microwave unit has a delay start function which I'm looking forward to trying out (it's the little things). As a side note: the house looks cluttered and disorganized now. We haven't gotten our household goods yet with no delivery date in sight, so we're living bare-bones with plastic covered furniture.

One of my favorite features of this home is the screened front door. It gets warm here but not really hot, so we can have the front door open with a nice breeze coming through and we listen to the kids playing outside.

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The upstairs has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a linen closet, and a huge storage room. I'll spare you pictures of our clothes laying everywhere (no hangers!) and suitcases piled in one room. It will be nice to have our household goods delivered so we can finally settle in. 

So far, we are really happy with our home. The neighborhood is quiet and the renter's association is very responsive to work orders/concerns. It'll also be nice to have a second car here so Evie and I aren't housebound all the time. We've taken walks to Starbucks, the Commissary, and the park. Multiple times. We're ready to see some things in the town next to post. But for now, we're happy to be in a home, with cable that gets Bravo (I was starting to go a little stir crazy from missing my housewives).

This is an historic home on Pearl Harbor that we drove by yesterday. It's part of a neighborhood that was built in 1914. We couldn't get much closer than this to the houses but they were all so beautiful and really well-preserved.