On Valentine's Day (Sunday), Dan and I went out looking for houses. We saw about 10 that day. The third house we saw, we loooooved. I mean, we compared all of the other houses to it. We stood in the kitchen and looked at each other and said, "this is it." We went back to look at it again the next day, made an offer, had it accepted and were under contract by Wednesday. We had a settlement date of March 24th. Just 5 weeks to get all the paperwork in order and inspections done and final negotiations complete.
Once we had the keys, it was off to Lowes we went. Luckily, the house was pretty much move in ready, we just needed to get a few rooms painted and clean everything up. Mom and Dad Q came and pitched in with the cleaning and some repairs. New washer and dryer were delivered, new bedroom and dining furniture arrived (all courtesy of my wonderful parents and my fantastic in-laws) it was a busy time! Dan and I spent pretty much every night like this... get home from work, eat dinner, go to the house, paint for a few hours, back to the apartment to sleep and do it all over again the next day. It was all worth come April 10, when we had our official move-in day!
Anyway, enough talk, I'm sure you all just want to see pictures... Here are what before and after's I have...
Living room - 1/2 way
Dan's giant feet knocked over the paint can... a full gallon. this is from about 4ft up the stairs
Other side of the living room
Dining room before - one of the delivery guys thought this was a nice color and couldn't figure out why I would paint over it!
Dining room after - I'd love to have the same delivery guy come and see which he thinks is better!
Dining room with furniture, from the living room... kitchen is behind that.
Little guy 1/2 bath in the dining room. Seriously little, but seriously fantastic to have!
Appliance caddy... pretty much one of my favorite things about the house - sits in the kitchen wall, just off the dining room.
Kitchen cabinet stocked with dishes... I don't have a full pic of the kitchen. Not sure why I didn't just take one now, but it's getting late. Yes, my dishes get stocked like that when I empty the dishwasher. I like it.
Bedroom before - like a marigold color
Dan is very excited about the new wall color...
And so am I! Our bedroom, with walls painted and furniture in place.
Full bathroom upstairs w/sliding shower doors
In the process of removing the sliding doors...
And the doors are off!! It feels so much bigger and cleaner now! So there you have it. We've been very busy as you can see, and have spent most any and all free time here at our new house, doing things to make it pretty and comfortable and ours! Last weekend was a big gardening weekend... I'll post those pictures as soon as I'm sure the flowers we planted aren't dead. Neither Dan nor I have a very green thumb.
1 comment:
love it. def update with more pics soon!
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