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Thursday, July 19, 2012

(Before) Home Tour!

WARNING: Consider yourself warned that before looking at this house tour that these pics are slightly disturbing. You WILL think I'm crazy for tackling such a crazy project. This is the BEFORE Home Tour, which means hopefully in time there will be an AFTER home tour! These are pics that were taken of the house the first day I looked at it. So how your seeing it is how I was seeing it, This is exactly the shape it was in when we got it, so this is where we are starting from. I didnt clean it or nothing before the pics were taken so consider yourself warned.


As you all know I am doing a series called Project: Making Home, from top to bottom. My husband and I bought this fixer upper place, and fixer upper is an understatement. I decided to make this series to take you guys through to fixing up, decorating and making this place home! I have been wanting to post this Before Home Tour for a while now so you all can see where I am starting from so you can join me along my journey. I am warning you what you are about to see is not pretty. It's slightly a disaster and it is definitely going to be a lot of work but I think we can take it...hopefully!

Remember this home is in pretty bad shape! & I'm about to show you every last horrific detail.
I blocked out the hubs & the mother in law from the pics, lol they kept stepping in front of me while I was snapping pics.





The view of the living room from the kitchen!




The front door.


The floors.


The mirror that was in the house!


The view looking in from the living room towards the kitchen.


The ceiling.


The inside of the front door.


Wall by the front door. (they mudded over wallpaper?)



One of the walls.



The bar separating the kitchen & living room.






Looking @ the Kitchen from the Living Room.


Where the fridge & Stove goes. Cabinets, yep that's all the cabinet space there is other then under the sink. Gonna have to work with it.


The dining area of the kitchen. Another mirror that came with the place.


Closer look at corner where fridge goes.


Cabinets.

Inside of cabinets. 
(That's a button not a bug, trust me if it was a bug I probably would have jumped & screamed & cried like a little girl. haha)


The sink, kitchen window, & glimpse of part of the living room.


Sink.


Countertops (if you want to call them that.)


Under the sink & under counter cabinets.


Under the sink (gross I know, don't judge I didnt do it lol it's how I found it.)


Side of bar.



Right off the kitchen into the hallway is the pantry. Here is the open pantry door.


shelves in pantry

bottom shelf & floor of pantry



Looking down the hallway from the kitchen.


Looking down with doors shut. (there is no bedroom door LOL)




Wood Paneling on one wall, ugh!

Looking back into the kitchen from the bedroom.




small right? Washer goes on the right & the dryer goes on the left
it's definitely gonna be a cramped space




coming in from the hallway







gross i know. we plan to replace almost everything in this house, toilets definitely being number 1.









looking in from the hallway

lol at the big white blob where the hubs & mother in law were standing


paneled halfway up the wall just like the living room


his & her closets, 
real dirty inside but can be fixed lol

ceiling fan



behind the front door

halfway paneled up, mudded on wallpaper, again.







its sooo small but we have to work with the space we got, 
so I will have to find a way to put all my crap in this one little room lol.

MIL  started rippin wallpaper off the walls lol hence the big ball of paper in the floor

again paneled halfway down, but i think i could clean up & use that chair railing molding!

i dont know what happened here lol but needing new insulation & drywall



closet.




door coming in



wallpaper behind door

gross yellow bathtub


purple & blue? lol

mirror, wallpaper, & purple wall lol





lol sorry for the big white blobs again



lol there's no window, so they had a piece of paneling and nailed it over it haha!



all kinds of floating floors that was in the floor of this room

his closet, but don't i have the best hubs in the world. He said in the 4 closets in the house I can have 3 of them. he's going to use one of the closets in the bedroom, i get the other, the one in the craft room, and this one for storage since they are all pretty small. Loves him! hehe!



That's it. That is my entire BEFORE home tour. Told you it was pretty gross, I'm almost embarrassed to share it, but this is exactly how we got it, I did not sugar-coat it.  Now stay tuned to see how we slowly fix this dump up to be a home. We will be doing everything on our own more then likely, aside from help from a few family members who know more then us about certain things. So be prepared, i can finally hit the ground running with this series, yay!!! Thanks for stopping by you guys!!





Thursday, July 12, 2012

Welcome Back + Updates!!

Guess who's back, back, back...back again, in, in....the princess is back, back, back...tell a friend!
Sorry that was my gangsta rap breakdown! Gosh I love me some Eminem......uhm ANYWAYS!

I am indeed back. I have been gone FOREVER!!!!! Almost a month but I swear it's felt like longer. But no worries I am back and hopefully to stay.  I helped my mother move, while me & the hubs was also moving. But after the move the hubs got sent out of state for storm work to help out some towns who had been hit by the bad storms that had been hitting lately. So while he was gone out of town I spent a lil over a week with my mom to help her get settled in and unpacked at her place. Because of that I didn't come home til the day before yesterday and haven't unpacked a thing!! However we are not unpacking all of our things only enough to last us maybe a few months because we plan in the next week or so to really start on our place we bought FINALLY!! Which means I need to hurry and get that BEFORE home tour up so I can update you guys on what we are doing as we are doing it. So be looking for that super soon! But I finished unpacking a few months worth of stuff the last 2 days so now I am ready to re-enter the blog world, If I still know how (its been so long lol.) But I just wanted to say sorry I was gone longer then I thought but I'm back & ready to get this ball rolling!!! Stay Tuned!!



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