We purchased this house December 2008... and finally in February 2010, we're moving in! woohoo! I'll have to post a 360 degree video soon.... maybe I'll do that today.
One thing Tim and I are excited about is that there is a house just down the street selling for $200,000 more than what we purchased OUR house for! The "sale" house has no real updates as far as kitchen, flooring or windows... or anything, really. Homes are definitely an investment piece! We're excited, though, we plan on living in this house for a while...
A few the the most recent pictures are below. Last week, we had concrete poured in front of our house. (The railing on the trellis is not shown in these photos though... I'll have to take pictures of that).
I love smooth concrete! It looks like so much fun to do! haha...
Here, you can see our trellis... we started staining the posts... but when it began raining 3 weeks ago, we stopped. Plus, we realized the stain was a little more RED than we wanted, so we're planning on going back to Home Depot to purchase different stain. (Tim says he's pretty sure he's been to Home Depot more times than there are days in a year!) This photo also shows our door "before" getting painted, next to our new lights... how do you like them?
Here's our door [from the inside] painted... The photo was taken at night, so you can't really see the detailing in the glass that you can in the picture above.
Here is a picture of our shower in the 2nd bathroom. Our tile guy gave us the border FREE! I guess he had some left over from another job. What I love is that on the left side, there is space in the wall to put misc. thing: shampoo, soap, etc.
This is the vanity we purchased at Lowes for only $112!! Love that price! The funny thing is that another lowes, it was "on sale" for $182! Retail....
This is our master shower! Love the travertine! Thinking back now, Tim thinks we should have gotten a jet tub. (Apparently, according to Yahoo! a jet tub is one of the top ten things a house should have for resale value).
Here is our master bathroom vanity. I love the faucets! They are kinda like a well... vintage. The cabinets, Tim and I put together, after purchasing them wholesale at Cabinets Wholesale in City of Industry. This vanity was REALLY easy to put together compared to our kitchen cabinets!! The best part is, the vanity was roughly only $1,000.... Double sink vanities are typically twice that.
Here is our living room. We add those two windows on either side of our fire place. If you scroll down to some of our previous posts, you'll be able to see this room "in progress." Our plans for the fireplace is to add a mantle, and dry wall the top half and paint it... then add tile on the bottom half. It's still a work in progress, but its not too high of a priority right now.
"At laaaaaaasssttttttttt..." like that song some people use at weddings.. lol.... our new sofas! We have looked EVERYWHERE for couches... and finally, we found something that we liked! You can really see our new floors in this picture too! = ) We still need to find a rug and a coffee table... and then put our TV on the wall... and buy some trees/plants and then... VOILA!
Here is our kitchen!!!!! Of course, we don't have any appliances yet, and the island is not installed (The piping you see sticking out of the floor is where our 3'x5' island will be). We're going dark with our island to offset the vintage white cabinets. The curvy part of the wall is where the entrance to our house is.
Here's our door [from the inside] painted... The photo was taken at night, so you can't really see the detailing in the glass that you can in the picture above.
Here is a picture of our shower in the 2nd bathroom. Our tile guy gave us the border FREE! I guess he had some left over from another job. What I love is that on the left side, there is space in the wall to put misc. thing: shampoo, soap, etc.
This is the vanity we purchased at Lowes for only $112!! Love that price! The funny thing is that another lowes, it was "on sale" for $182! Retail....
This is our master shower! Love the travertine! Thinking back now, Tim thinks we should have gotten a jet tub. (Apparently, according to Yahoo! a jet tub is one of the top ten things a house should have for resale value).
Here is our master bathroom vanity. I love the faucets! They are kinda like a well... vintage. The cabinets, Tim and I put together, after purchasing them wholesale at Cabinets Wholesale in City of Industry. This vanity was REALLY easy to put together compared to our kitchen cabinets!! The best part is, the vanity was roughly only $1,000.... Double sink vanities are typically twice that.
Here is our living room. We add those two windows on either side of our fire place. If you scroll down to some of our previous posts, you'll be able to see this room "in progress." Our plans for the fireplace is to add a mantle, and dry wall the top half and paint it... then add tile on the bottom half. It's still a work in progress, but its not too high of a priority right now.
"At laaaaaaasssttttttttt..." like that song some people use at weddings.. lol.... our new sofas! We have looked EVERYWHERE for couches... and finally, we found something that we liked! You can really see our new floors in this picture too! = ) We still need to find a rug and a coffee table... and then put our TV on the wall... and buy some trees/plants and then... VOILA!
Here is our kitchen!!!!! Of course, we don't have any appliances yet, and the island is not installed (The piping you see sticking out of the floor is where our 3'x5' island will be). We're going dark with our island to offset the vintage white cabinets. The curvy part of the wall is where the entrance to our house is.
All in all, its been a LONG process, but a fairly easy process to remodel (aside from the contractor(s) that have given us crap). Why do they have such a bad rap? It's because its true.... so if you're a contractor reading this.... do your best to be hard working, flexible, on time, have attention to detail, be personable, pay your workers, follow the contract, accept your payments with class, and just be a good "business" to deal with.
I think a house warming will be happening soon... Maybe a house warming/birthday party later this month.... I'm going to be 27!! wow. (I still look like I just graduated high school......sigh.......).
Thanks for reading!
~Jenn
