House Remodel

As everyone knows when we purchased our home it was a foreclosure. And man. It was rough! But the size of the home and layout was PERFECT! Not to mention there were hardwoods under all the carpet. And like every homeowner there are things that aren’t perfect and things that still bug me to this day but can you really have a “perfect” home for $60K? I love my home don’t get me wrong and I’m VERY blessed to have it!

I have like 5000 pictures of the process so I thought I would share a few to give a full picture of how we've turned this once scary house into the beauty that it is today. You will be shocked. Still is unreal to me to this day.

My wonderful husband and father-in-law spent from Sept 09-Feb 10 gutting and finishing up the main necessities (including a complete overhaul of the Master Bath and Kitchen, down to the studs.) We still to this day have little projects we need to complete like sanding down the old light fixture holes in the kitchen, paint the kitchen ceiling, install carpet in the remaining closets, hang cabinet over Master Bath toilet, etc. Does everyone have that “honey to do list” that never gets complete?! Hard to get some of the things done with a little one around and when our time off are on different schedules. For our new year’s resolution we are going to complete that little list, because we want to start trying for our #2 sometime late next fall and I don’t want anything minor left on that list. With two kids running around this house it will be impossible to finish that “honey to do list”.

So this is all that needs to get done along with lots would-be-nice/ wishes:

1. Sand and polish off old fixture holes in kitchen (Spring)
2. Repaint kitchen ceiling (Summer)
3. Repaint Master Bathroom (Soon)
4. Paint Master Bathroom trim/crown molding (Soon)
5. Hang cabinet in Master Bathroom (Spring)
6. Finish office closet wall (Spring)
7. Carpet remaining closets (Summer)
8. Organize garage (Maybe purchase lower/upper cabinets? For our thousand of tools) (Summer/Fall)
9. Polish and Paint garage walls (Summer)
10. Re-roof house ***Meeting next week to decide colors***
11. Install new gutters ***Meeting next week to decide colors***
12. Convert sliding glass to window and tear up steps leading to it (Next year)
13. Install new front door (Fall/Winter) **Painted existing front door and removed security door**
14. Replace garage overhead lights (DOWN THE ROAD)
15. Install 2nd set of attic stairs in garage (DOWN THE ROAD)
16. Replace Hall Bathroom floor and vanity(Next year)
17. Paint house (Next year)
18. Replace light fixture by front door (Fall/Winter)
19. Remove light fixture by sliding glass door (Next year)
20. Landscape! Landscape! (Hopefully we won’t miss planting season this year)
21. Tear up sidewalk to front door and Install new (Next year)
22. Install patio (Summer/Fall)
23. Tear down deck (Spring/Summer)

Whew! That’s a long list. So I will update when things are complete. Hopefully #10 and 11 will be happening over the next 3 weeks. I think once all of that is done this house will be PERFECT! I love our property and where we live, so it will hard to move this I know especially since we have so many memories, blood, sweat, and tears in it

So now that we are working on the outside comes the hard part. COLORS! I love the colors of my diagonal neighbors on each side. Here is kind of the routes I want to go…all due to change of course….but just ideas.When I was trying to figure out what roof color to go with I started to dabble in paint which lead me into my phases...I have to say I'm kinda in love with Phase 2. Hopefully we will be there soon. (Excuse the bad copy and paste work! :-) Also you might need to click on the picture to read the words.)