Ok, so I'll give this a spin. The purpose of this blog is to give all of those interested an update on the goings on around our house. So, after a decade of graduate school and graduate school living (mac n' cheese and cheap rat-trap rental homes), we've finally arrived in a place where we'll stay for awhile. We've slowly tired of fixing our landlords' mistakes through the year, and would like a place that we can make our own--customize a bit to our own liking--and finally break out the good china (so to speak), so we bought a house. The county assessor claims the behemouth was built in 1915. It's a 3-bedroom, 1 bathroom, 2-car garage, old-school, big-ass, house. More than likely, it was one of those "kit" houses that were popular around that time...but that would a story for later.
We're the 4th owners. We don't know much about the first owners. The second owners moved in in the 1950s, proceeded to paint much of the first floor in the classy colors of the time (bright yellow LEAD paint). The 3rd owners moved in 50 years later, in 2003 and made many "improvements"--most of which we are trying to undo (are we the only ones who think that adhesive carpet tiles are tacky?).
Despite being happy home owners for over a month now...we still haven't moved in...but wait, there are reasons. First, we have a lease (booo) that we probably ought to at least come close to fulfilling. Second, bringing the house "back to zero" is taking a little longer than we had expected. We figured it would be nice to get the BIG projects out of the way before we clutter up the place with our stuff...and if we had moved right in and didn't need to do those things...well, this blog probably wouldn't exist. So without further ado...here are a few photos of the house--before we started--ground zero so to speak.
Ok, so I'll give this a spin. The purpose of this blog is to give all of those interested an update on the goings on around our house. So, after a decade of graduate school and graduate school living (mac n' cheese and cheap rat-trap rental homes), we've finally arrived in a place where we'll stay for awhile. We've slowly tired of fixing our landlords' mistakes through the year, and would like a place that we can make our own--customize a bit to our own liking--and finally break out the good china (so to speak), so we bought a house. The county assessor claims the behemouth was built in 1915. It's a 3-bedroom, 1 bathroom, 2-car garage, old-school, big-ass, house. More than likely, it was one of those "kit" houses that were popular around that time...but that would a story for later.
We're the 4th owners. We don't know much about the first owners. The second owners moved in in the 1950s, proceeded to paint much of the first floor in the classy colors of the time (bright yellow LEAD paint). The 3rd owners moved in 50 years later, in 2003 and made many "improvements"--most of which we are trying to undo (are we the only ones who think that adhesive carpet tiles are tacky?).
Despite being happy home owners for over a month now...we still haven't moved in...but wait, there are reasons. First, we have a lease (booo) that we probably ought to at least come close to fulfilling. Second, bringing the house "back to zero" is taking a little longer than we had expected. We figured it would be nice to get the BIG projects out of the way before we clutter up the place with our stuff...and if we had moved right in and didn't need to do those things...well, this blog probably wouldn't exist. So without further ado...here are a few photos of the house--before we started--ground zero so to speak.
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