OWNING A HOME!

OWNING A HOME is so nice...however it is A TON of work!!!!! Things break that you have to fix and not the landlord! If it's not one thing it's another.

 BEFORE.... I hate shrubs and the color of the house looks WAY better in photos. It was grey but with mint green showing through and white showing through other places. It was pretty hideous.

                                                AFTER...We painted the outside white and painted the shutters red....removed the HIDEOUS shrubs and landscaped. I love it :)

     We have done so much work to the house and we still have a lot of work but it's coming along...as they say "Rome wasn't built in a day" :) We bought the house at a really good price, and I have always wanted a fixer-upper just like this one ever since I could remember. It has been a lot of fun doing whatever I want to the house to personalize it to my taste.

BEFORE DINING ROOM....the brown paneling took like 3 coats of paint but we finally conquered it! :) It was the room that took the longest to paint. You can't see the ceiling very well but it was soooo old nasty drop ceiling tiles. 

AFTER DINING ROOM.... Huge improvement I must say :) I still need to paint the furniture and stuff but it's mostly done!

                                             BEFORE KITCHEN....it's not a very good photo but you can tell it's HIDEOUS! The wall border was BEARS! LOL like it couldn't have been worse border....but A LOT of paint and hard work and we transformed it :)

AFTER KITCHEN....I love my kitchen :)

Random photos of the moving in process...

The main working crew! :)

We still have a lot of work left, but working a little at a time is fun...even though I get impatient at times because some things don't get done in fast enough time for my taste....but until next time!!! Stay cool :)

~Janel~