We started house hunting in early-mid October, and crazy enough we found our home within only a couple weeks. We only saw a handful of houses before we found ours. Everything in our budget was small. We would have had to downsize from the ranch. Which honestly would have been tough, especially if down the road we decided to have another baby. Then one day, my mom found our house online, the next day we looked at it and I just knew it was "the one". It was also larger than any house we had seen (in person or online) and it had no HOA fees!
When we did the first viewing it was all very exciting and you didn't notice all the "issues". The next time we went back to the house was for the inspection. Then you started to notice the way the sellers did things here and there. The paint for instance was pretty bad. They didn't cut any of the edges of the walls and it was SO sloppy. It looked as if a child painted the house. Paint got all over the closet doors, the ceiling etc. It was pretty bad. AND they painted on top of every hole or nail in the house, and there was A TON of holes and nails. I've never seen a house with as many holes as this house has, and I'm not talking nail holes (although there is PLENTY of those too) I mean just random holes! Anytime they "repaired" something they did it wrong. It was just crazy.
Then, we went after we got the keys and the house was empty. OH MY GOODNESS. Then you REALLY saw all the...imperfections to put it nicely. They didn't clean at all before they left. Actually, pretty sure they hadn't cleaned anything in like...a year, maybe longer? Not exaggerating. The ceiling fans had what seemed like an inch of dirt on them, the kitchen cabinets still had things left in them (including general GRIME and dead bugs) they left broken computers in the closets, and even hard drives in the backyard. Cigarette butts EVERYWHERE outside including just lots of trash in general. And the best part was THEY PAINTED AROUND THEIR BED in the master bedroom. Crazy crazy crazy. But to be positive about the situation, now we have the opportunity to make it our own.
This house is going to be going through quite the transformation process so I figured it would be a great opportunity to blog it all! We won't be able to do EVERYTHING we have dreamed for this house before we move in, but since we won't be moving in officially for a few months we will be able to do a ton before then.
I wish I would have gotten some TRUE before pictures of the house, but we have already taken down so much crap so its more of an in progress look of the house but I think you will get the idea. Overall we are SO EXCITED and cannot wait to make this place "ours".
So, here are the "before" pictures!
The family room
The formal dining room
LARGE Kitchen Window
Lincoln helping grandpa!
The kitchen. (And grandpa)
Awesome patch job they did in the family room.
The office closet.
Bleach anyone? Yuck.
Office closet.
Backyard
Awesome piece left behind. (Not sarcastic, I actually love it haha)
Kitchen
Dining room ceiling fan, plan to paint this and get rid of the awful brass.
Formal living room.
LOVE this light.
Linen closet upstairs.
Guest bedroom closet.
No, that isn't painters tape left behind. That is actually paint.
Upstairs bathroom
Awesome paint job.
What I call, the cloud room.
The master bedroom.
Inside one of the master closets. Not even going to attempt to clean that. Going to rip that shelf out and put our laundry basket in the "hole".
Total 80's fireplace. Still figuring how what to do with this bad boy. Because it is AWFUL.
Skylight type feature in the kitchen.
Downstairs bath.
So there you have it! Can't wait to see this place transform! It has SO much potential and cannot wait to make it ours.
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