Hiawatha Tuscan Villa

We have been in our lovely new 1280 square foot mobile home since mid-August. I am finally feeling organized and like I am nearly done decorating...but we will naturally always maintain that lived in feeling...I don't like houses that look too perfect like you will get in trouble for breathing!



I fought the mere thought of a mobile home for a year...though I spent my first year of life in one...and kept looking for a stick built house. They were all either big echoey energy wasters in need of repair in 'full time ministry neighborhoods' or tiny with bad floor plans with awful or no basement in our price range. Now I don't mind all that exactly...I like the idea of full time ministry where one must rely on YHWH...but nothing seemed quite like home till now. You just know when you are home, you know?



Roy said YHWH told him his job was tied to the FEMA trailer and would get laid off when we moved. Yup...YHWH speaks to us and it comes true. I told YHWH to fix our porch or move us...the flood UNEXPECTEDLY came all the way to our house within 48 hours! But it is also true that HE takes care of us really well...so we went on with plans to move. Boy, have we been blessed!



We knew as soon as we walked in the place. The open floor plan...Tuscan themed sunny faux painted kitchen and living room, deep chocolate suede faux painted bathrooms, big kitchen open to living room, golden color hallway. I have been decorating with a lot of real and fake greenery, trees, found great used furniture with more style than new...found any woman's DREAM baker's rack for a pitance!



We painted the bedrooms our desired colors, periwinkle for ours and medium aqua for the spare...I mixed my own colors from the dump! Loved to be that creative...happier than I ever was with store bought colors!

Painted Roy's den olive with brown and black furniture and frames...navy, burgandy and gold accents, portraits of Norman Rockwell Baseball prints, Daniel in Lion's Den, Native Americans on horses on sacred ground, 250 year old quaker church we were married in painted by Roy's mom in the 60's and family photos. This is our main theatre, music conservatory and office.

We are on the edge of a forest in Hiawatha...our most desired location. Not too far from the interstate and stores, yet off the beaten path just a bit, in a quiet neighborhood with nice people. We like the mix of socioeconomic classes here so it is not stuffy, but friendly and helpful.