Relative Update... Home Edition

I'm Back.

 A little late with this final update.

But...

Lucky for me (and you), I have time today because my hubbs put me in timeout due to my grumpiness while painting. I am not mad about this.

As most of you know, we bought our house in July of 2012. We are talking a total fixer upper! 

But this guaranteed us a 3 bedroom house with an actual yard, in a established neighborhood, well under market value for this town. Downside: we had to basically gut it. New floors, new kitchen, ceiling repair- the whole 9 yards. And are we done yet? Yeah right. But we have made progress, and with the baby on the way we are moving as fast as time and money allow. 

How about some pictures???

  This is our home. 

Since we bought it, we have pulled up no less than 10- 7ft tall holly bushes.

We have grand landscaping plans for the spring, as well as painting the house in the fall. 

But doesn't the purple kinda grow on you?

 The Living Room (or part of it)

We removed the carpet and sub-flooring, extended the wall between the living room and kitchen, removed the chair rail and scraped the popcorn ceiling.

Right now we do not have actual floors, but maybe with our tax return we will soon.

 THE KITCHEN

This was the biggest and most expensive project.

Total demo: removed the wall containing a oven and stove-top, including cabinets. Patched ceiling where wall was removed, scrapped and repaired popcorn ceiling. Removed 2 layers of old linoleum, and replaced with tile (we did all the work ourselves with the help of our parents). Brand new cabinets, sink, and all appliances.

Our Master Bedroom.

The one I was painting when banned.

 We removed carpeting and laid 12" professional grade plywood floors.

Scraped and finished ceilings, like the rest of the house.

We removed the crappy wood closet organizer, and later today will be installing a new fancy one!!!

Hopefully we will be moving into this room tomorrow.

My office.

1/2 of our finished garage basement, contains my office.

We removed the carpet and painted.

You will be seeing lots of photos of this room soon.

Well, at least for now, this is our home. It often feels like we live in a construction zone, and we kinda do. When we move from room to room, there is always a constant need to move painting and flooring supplies. After this weekend we will be moving on to our guest bedroom, then finally the nursery. 

 I'm being told my timeout is over, so back to work.

Until next time,

Later, Taters!