Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Our House: Before

The closing on the house went very well. Only took about an hour and a half. I got to sign lots of paper work and then we got our keys. We excitedly drove to our new house and pried open the front door. The lock was a little tricky and it tooks some work on Joe's part to get it open. We documented this process in pictures which I will post later. I wanted to give you a before look at our new place first though. These picture are from the orginal listing.

This is the old living room. I have a thing for old lady style so this immediatly caught my attention. We have some nice white carpet, tan walls and a wonderful mirror that they decided to leave.


This is the original dining room. I loved the chandelier from the start and I still do! The sliding glass door goes to the huge porch.

This is the amazing kitchen. The appliances are original to the house except for the fridge. The stove/microwave are a one piece unit.


Here we have the dining nook in the kitchen. My mom is in love with the light, I am ok with it now.


This is the one bathroom we have. Its pretty large, having two sinks has worked wonderfully so far.


 This is the original master bedroom; its gone Lucy and Ricky style on us. The blinds are an iridescent rainbow design with a pink ruffle up top. Those were the first things to come down.



 This is the spare bedroom, which we are using as our office.  Joe accidently broke the blinds in here, I was so upset....

And finally this is our huge porch. I am not changing a think with this space!




In the two weeks we have owned our home, we have made a lot of changes and I will post them once I can take some pictures that don't have a bunch of junk in them. I am not a fan of tan walls in the least bit so they are all painted. Lighting fixtures have been replaced, and applainces have left the house. Its a been a fun/long process, but we are getting closer and closer to not having to live out of boxes!


Monday, September 24, 2012

It's Almost Closing Time!

Tomorrow, September 25, 2012, is the scheduled closing date for Joe and my new home. I have been waiting for this date for a LONG time, over 2 weeks! That doesn't seem like that long but the original closing date was September 10th and that has since come and gone. So now we wait anxiously for tomorrow!

We were all set to close on September 10th but we had an intense hullabaloo with the seller first. Every great home story needs an amusing "this is how we got here story". I thought we had missed out on ours but oh no, we got ours too. Thankfully, I believe everything is settled now and we are ready to close.

The new home is a charming 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom townhome. Not the ultimate dream house by any means, but with a limited budget, this is what you get; this is the current dream. There will be more photos once I can take my own. The listing's photos aren't all that exciting. Here is the front at least.


So tomorrow is the big day. We have all sorts of plans, well I do at least, and Joe just goes along with them most of the time. I have the paint colors picked out, the chandeliers ready to order and Joe's uncle lined up to help us with our intense 4 days of painting. 3 days are taken off of work, Joe is off of school, and we are ready!