This is the front of the house. Obviously :) We have dug out dandelions by the hundreds, literally and under the left bedroom window is a flower bed that we pulled all the grass out of. There are some really pretty tulips all over the front, gone now of course. The two small trees are dogwood trees. Go
here to see what they should look like, they are gorgeous! Anyway, they both need some TLC as only one bloomed this year and only a few flowers instead of the whole tree like they should.
This is the backyard. No one has been in this house for over a year so the next project for when we come into a lot of money :) is to re sod the back yard. If we don't come into a lot of money, we will just seed it. Here is where we tore out most of the dandelions. It was a dandelion garden really! I should have taken before pictures for you!
The kids playing in the sprinkler. We would really love to put a hot tub over that brown patch :)
This is our bedroom. We painted it a pale sea/mint green. We had brown carpet we pulled out and there are wood floors in our bedroom. We have done so much to this house. We always dreamed of buying a fixer-upper but boy am I tired! We have spent the last 3 weekends painting. Every Saturday and a little on Friday. We dug out all the dandelions and other various weeds. We need to finish painting the basement so it doesn't smell like smoke. We've torn up 2 carpets and all the hardware underneath. We Scrubbed the house top to bottom before we even moved in. Grant cleaned out the gutters, gross! The leaves were beginning to compost inside the drains on the side of the house! Grant has fixed plumbing and electrical. We have weeded all the flower beds and garden spots, roto-tilled them and cleaned out the rocks from them and planted a garden. The list goes on but Grant mentioned yesterday, "Now that we are done painting (the bedrooms anyway, we still have to paint the living/dining rooms but not until later) we can actually spend our weekends doing regular house chores." Yep, our house is fairly un-kempt because we spend all our time on these projects. Our house smells better upstairs though and for that my sinuses are grateful!! We haven't even hung pictures on the walls yet :) But, all these projects have been very fun and Grant and I have learned a lot about eachother through the process. Projects are good for marriage I've decided :) It is just amazing how much time owning your own home takes!!!!!! (Someone should have warned me :))
This is the front of the house. Obviously :) We have dug out dandelions by the hundreds, literally and under the left bedroom window is a flower bed that we pulled all the grass out of. There are some really pretty tulips all over the front, gone now of course. The two small trees are dogwood trees. Go here to see what they should look like, they are gorgeous! Anyway, they both need some TLC as only one bloomed this year and only a few flowers instead of the whole tree like they should.
This is the backyard. No one has been in this house for over a year so the next project for when we come into a lot of money :) is to re sod the back yard. If we don't come into a lot of money, we will just seed it. Here is where we tore out most of the dandelions. It was a dandelion garden really! I should have taken before pictures for you!
The kids playing in the sprinkler. We would really love to put a hot tub over that brown patch :)
This is our bedroom. We painted it a pale sea/mint green. We had brown carpet we pulled out and there are wood floors in our bedroom. We have done so much to this house. We always dreamed of buying a fixer-upper but boy am I tired! We have spent the last 3 weekends painting. Every Saturday and a little on Friday. We dug out all the dandelions and other various weeds. We need to finish painting the basement so it doesn't smell like smoke. We've torn up 2 carpets and all the hardware underneath. We Scrubbed the house top to bottom before we even moved in. Grant cleaned out the gutters, gross! The leaves were beginning to compost inside the drains on the side of the house! Grant has fixed plumbing and electrical. We have weeded all the flower beds and garden spots, roto-tilled them and cleaned out the rocks from them and planted a garden. The list goes on but Grant mentioned yesterday, "Now that we are done painting (the bedrooms anyway, we still have to paint the living/dining rooms but not until later) we can actually spend our weekends doing regular house chores." Yep, our house is fairly un-kempt because we spend all our time on these projects. Our house smells better upstairs though and for that my sinuses are grateful!! We haven't even hung pictures on the walls yet :) But, all these projects have been very fun and Grant and I have learned a lot about eachother through the process. Projects are good for marriage I've decided :) It is just amazing how much time owning your own home takes!!!!!! (Someone should have warned me :))
3 comments:
What a cute house. Looks like you have been very busy. We will have to come visit.
so fun! You guys have done so much already! I love the big basement room, how great is that to have that much space!? And the wood floors you uncovered are beautiful!
Fun fun, you'll have to keep posting the progress :)
It's beautiful! I'm so jealous of the Dogwood trees! I hope they do their blossoming job for you in the years to come. I'm so SO happy for you! Aren't you loving your kids in their own back yard? Aw, so fun! You have done so much weeding! I mean it looks like though you've pulled out a lot of weeds, seeding to fill in might work out really well! Congrats! So many new walls to hang your paintings on. Enjoy!
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