Our "new" house

I'm going to try and post some pictures when I get home this morning, but I can tell you a little about the house we purchased. We closed on April 18, so we have been working on it a while. It was a bank foreclosure and we knew it needed some work and quite a bit of cosmetic updating, but as most remodels go, the more we tore out, the more we needed to tear out.

The previuos owner loved pink and teal. There was mauve carpet all over the house. We ripped all of that out, just to find nasty pad that indicated they must have had pets. We thought that we would try staining the concrete unitl we realized there was old schoolhouse tile underneath with glue that last forever. We thought we were in an expensive mess at that point, but God blessed us with an amazing deal on laminate wood flooring, so we bought enough for the living and dining room, the hall and the master bedroom. Tim has since placed all that with the help of his dad and our friend Nick. It looks really good. The floors in the kitchen and baths were nasty peel and stick tile. We slowly chipped all that up and replaced it with ceramic tile. That came out really nice. We left the carpet in the other 3 bedrooms and had it cleaned. I think that will do for now.

Tim has spent a lot of time working on plumbing. I am very grateful the he and Mark (his dad) were able to get thinks fixed. My parents came early in the summer and helped with all the sheetrock work that needed to be done. We have been painting like crazy and we're still not done. I went a little crazy making sure I had some color in the house after renting white walls for so long. I'll put pictures up of all that. Titus' room is going to be airplanes.

The yard still needs a lot of work. I hope to get to that in the fall. if not then, the spring. We have to replace the fence and we have a lot of debris to haul off. Our furniture and all of our other belongings that have been in storage for 6.5 months arrive Sunday. It's pretty much like they left it because I have been at work all week, but I have some days off and I hope to be staying there within the next week.

I'm excited for the after pictures. They will be coming soon. I'm excited to be comfortable in my own space again and I excited to be able to cook and sew and scrapbook again. All in all it has been a blessing and I'm glad we were able to get this house, but it has definitely been at lot of work.