Home Improvement Blog

We're apparently closing on our house this upcoming Tuesday!!! Seriously, it's freaking me out that it's really going to happen... way nervous. I'm not sure why, maybe it's all the excitement. Anyways, our place is nice (at least I think so) but in need of a makeover, and we're going to give it one. Aaron and I talked about how we want to document the process on our blog. We talked about starting a whole new blog for it, but this will only be like a 8 week process, so you get to enjoy our house renovation documentation. We're really doing this so we can look back and say, "Look at what we did?!" Aaron is so excited to get to work. I didn't realize I married a Do It Yourself Joe, he's awesome!

I took some picture of the place when it seemed like we would probably get the house, because I wanted them for reference when planning colors and different design elements. They aren't great but you can kind of get the feel for the home, and the junk all over the place. The previous owners were evicted and were kind enough to leave us some presents!
It has this cute front porch. We want to put up a swing and some hanging flower pots.

My very own kitchen with a gas range! I'm overly excited about that.

This is the first bedroom and it looks just like the second bedroom. I can tell them apart by the chocolate milk chug in the window sill of bedroom #2. Yummy...

The Master Bedroom. Shoes anyone?


This is the master bath. I couldn't really capture it's grodiness. When Aaron convinced me to clean this place up ourselves, I said, "As long you clean around that toilet!" Gross!If you click on this one, you might be able to see the dirty whity tighties overflowing from that bag in the front room. My favorite is all the dust on the ledge, that's going to be a stinker to clean.


Really, we went for this place for the free vacuum. Aaron's soon to be sanctuary.

We're organizing a big cleaning party for April 12th so we can start painting the next week. I really don't think it will be that bad because we don't have to worry about destroying carpets, etc, because we're replacing everything. Wish us luck in our endeavors. Please, we need it.