Home sweet home!

After a month of delays, I finally got to close on my house! I love it! The location is perfect, the yard is fantastic and the school disctrict is great!

Our house

The backyard. It much more green now. :)

Since we had lost a good month of work time, We wasted no time and got started on the renovations the day we closed. The house has great bones, but really needed an update on a lot of areas.

Here is the living/dining room at move in.

Due to finances being tight and having a handy fiance, we decided to sand and refinish the floors ourselves.  While I like the finished product, just hire someone to do it. It will be worth it.

Here it is in progress...

All refinished and waiting on stain. The sanding looked great, until the stain went on. You could see the tiny errors. We aren't pros, so we think of it as "character".

 We went to the local restore/habitat for humanity and found a great deal on the dark stain. "Someone" decided to not follow the instructions and didn't wipe off all the excess and in turn, caused a three DAY delay due to non-drying stain. It's funny because the stain was advertised as a "1-hour" stain, not 72 hours.

Anywho- we wanted darker floors, but they ended up a little darker than planned. I still like the color, though. It really pops with the new wall color and white trim.

This is just the stain, no finish.

The dining room



Dining room side, again. Better lighting

The big window.

I know people think tan is boring, but it was a nice neutral color that quickly covered the rooms.

Here is the master. A nice yellow color, with dingy carpet. 

We removed the carpet on closing day. :)

sanded floors

Some cute guy putting on the finish

Painted walls and getting white trim installed

Ahh...

It will take some time, but we are getting there.  This house is going to be perfect for us and our little family. I am so excited watching it become "ours".