Are you ready for a picture extravaganza?! 


I'm truly excited to show you the inside of our house. Not because its beautiful by any means, but because it has potential. It's oozing pussing spewing (how about a word that doesn't conjure up a mental picture of a festering wound) screaming (ahh that's better)  "POTENTIAL!!" It truly may take you some time to see what we see, but we're OK with that. You might not want to be as crazy-in-the-head as we are...cause let me tell you...we may just be a tad bit messed up to take on this kind of work. 


Moving on...above all the craziness, there is the highest level of excitement!! I can feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins as I type this. I am conjuring up all sorts of designs and plans for this quaint little house of ours. Think: Rustic-Cozy Cottage. Yea, that's it. For those of you who don't know, this has been my dream. I have always wanted to fix up a house and truly wet my design whistle flex my design mus-cles. 


So are you ready? Please put on your "potential" goggles and we'll be off!!! As you enter the back of the house, please refer to this post for a floor plan, you walk into the kitchen: 

then if you go through the door to the right of the picture above you go into the dining room:

Off the dining room there is the bathroom:

the downstairs bedroom: 

and the sun room: 

 If you continue through the dining room and head toward the front of the house, you will walk into the living room:

(sorry about the blurry and dark pictures. I am still trying to figure out our new camera and the lighting in the house is absolutely atrocious) 

That is it for the downstairs. Now, take the stairs to the 

right hand side of the picture above 

and be careful of the cracked step :)

and you will reach the landing. 

 If you go straight, you will be in the master bedroom (the only one with closets): 

 and if you go to the right when you reach the top of the stairs, you go into the other "bedroom." It's so tiny and has no closets, so we have decided to re-work it...but more on that to come! 

So that is the inside of our cute little place. What do you think? Can you see the festering wound err I mean potential?? We sure can! 

Now on to the outside! We have a cute little one 

car garage with a little gardening shed off the side: 

And our backyard is HUGE! We cannot wait to have a garden and still have plenty of space to move around! 

And there you have it! Our humble abode. 

P.S. If anyone has any questions, feel free to post some in the comments! 

Floor Plan and Stats

Once you tell someone you have just purchased a house, there are always the inevitable questions that follow. I think everyone is genuinely excited for us, but a part of them also seems to think that they can picture the house if we tell them the dirty deets. "How big is the house?" "How many bathrooms?" "Now you said that was three bedrooms?" (followed by that whatcha-talkin'-'bout-Willis?-stare). 

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We really appreciate everyone's enthusiasm but how do you tell someone that there is technically only one bedroom, because only one of the bedrooms listed (of the three) actually has a closet. Or that the bathroom is actually only a 3/4 bathroom because there isn't any shower, because the previous owner was an older lady who appreciated a good-long bath. Or that the house is considered a cape cod, but you resent that statement, because truly, you can stand up in the entire upstairs and the roof line doesn't really effect the ceiling height. 

Usually, people don't stand around listening to you explain this overly detailed list full of run-on sentences. They just want to know what it's like and truth be told, I fall into that category myself. I always want to know the details. I'm nosy. The dirty deets. The 411. The ins and outs. I like knowing people's biz-niss. Ok...wow...moving on. 

But we care! It's our little house and we are bursting at the seems to tell everyone about it! So here is the run down. Will you bare with me? Trust me, I think you will like it...

Our house has three bedrooms (one downstairs and two upstairs) and one bathroom. We also have a kitchen, dining room, living room, and cute little sun porch. There is a detached garage and a huge backyard. Also, to further complete the whole cute-little-house-with-white-picket-fence motif, there is actually a white picket fence that borders one side of the yard! Plus, as if God was telling me that this place is meant to be ours, there is already a laundry line installed. I know what you are thinking, yes I could install it myself, but trust me. This. was. a. sign. :)

And because that doesn't really give you a great visual of the place, I thought I would take it a step further. Thanks to this free website, I also drew up a mock (not exactly to scale) floor plan. 

The top of the picture is the back of the house and the little gray bump-out with stairs is the entryway. You go up the stairs on the right, to our kitchen or down the stairs on the left, to the basement. The room on the left hand side that isn't labeled, is the sun room. And just in case you were wondering, the two gold rectangles in the middle of the picture are radiators. We have more of them, I just added a few in for effect. 

We have decided that we are going to play around with the layout a bit, in the future. But for now this is what it looks like, sans furniture. Come back tomorrow and I will give you a visual rundown of each room as it is now. Trust me, lots of pictures are coming your way! 

We Bought a House!

Well we did it! We took the plunge and signed our lives away! We bought a house! (man that was a lot of exclamation points) 

Can you tell how excited we are? If I were physically capable of doing back flips, I would have done them that day. Apparently, when you sign those papers that basically control your finances for the rest of um...forever, you become overwhelmed with a "high-on-life" feeling. Let me tell you, I dig that feeling. You feel invincible, ecstatic, and nervous all at the same time. Then you realize that you are officially a "grownup" now--because apparently to be all grownup and make it really real, you have to own a house. Then once you own that house you have to prepare mentally and physically to make it your own. 


So let us start there. This blog is all about making our new home, ours. We will be posting about the ins and outs of home renovations and DIY projects. My husband is a carpenter, so he will definitely come in handy-no pun intend. He has promised to walk me through renovating our place and we plan on posting tutorials on how to DIY your house projects.  


I, on the other hand, like to believe I can at least coordinate colors (though if you show up at my door unannounced my clothes may say otherwise) so I will also be blogging about my design ideas and updates for this cute little house of ours. I hope that I can somehow inspire you to see the diamond in the rough when it comes to your abode. 

Won't you please join us? We would be honored to have you! Cheers to a wife and her carpenter!