Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Pictures of the Hizzle...

Here are some pictures of our brand new, old home! Brand new to us, old in terms of years... I mean we're talking older that the parents (sorry..mom and dad), OLD! We are soo excited to share this journey with you. Don't judge anything you see, for none of it is our doing and all of it will be for our un-doing!

A Picture of the Happy New Homeowners.. In the car! We would have gotten the classic, yard sign pic or getting the keys pic, but we didn't ever have a "SOLD" sign in our yard and we didn't ever technically get keys.. unless you count the keys we went out and bought so we could get in and out of the house without looking like robbers!
The Front of our charming little cottage, shutters and all!

The view of the living and dining room, and some tools! We have 3 inch shutters in the front which I adore.. those will literally be the only thing staying in the house.
A view of the living room to the front door, with just a little bit of the hardwoods peeking through! We can't wait to rip up the nasty carpet and refinish the floors.

A view of the dining room, and another tool that told us all the money we need to spend to fix the foundation.
A view of the kitchen, sans appliances, since the person who was forclosed on decided to take all the appliances and most of the lights in the house with them. But its cool, they must have known we weren't really hip for there style!

Our bedroom. Although the colors may look appealing, in real life it looks more like blood and a nasty shade of flesh, yum.

Our bathroom... or maybe the Richardson High School boys locker room, not sure which.

More of the bathroom. I guess they either knew we were small, or wanted us to lose weight because that shower is about the size of a kitchen sink. On the bright side, someone told us it was great that we had a seat in there (like we were going to use that nasty 54 year old seat anyway..).
And the other beautiful bathroom.. decorated with lovely peachy pink and maroon tile. Should we keep it?? Haha... that was never a thought.

The soon-to-be third bedroom, without access to the kitchen!
The 2nd bedroom.. and the foundation guy's clothes. No, not sketchy.. he was in the crawl space under the house checking out the problems.
The HUGE backyard... which we love, especially the pecan tree (Katie loves it at least, Caleb says it will suck up all our water..)! Only red flag here is the big concrete box in the middle of the backyard. We've had people say it's anything from a grill box to a family grave... any other ideas???

Soo, that's it.. the rough tour of our home. As we begin the renovations, you will see lots more pictures of the transformation! We are so excited and can't wait to get started!

5 comments:

Jeff and Steph said...

Hey guys! I just wanted to say hi and that we love your house! I love homes with character as well. We'll be looking forward to seeing the progress!

Stephanie

Ashley S. said...

Those bathrooms are horrible! I was going to say I like the yellow. And then I was going to say I like the red. But if it's blood and flesh, I say get rid of it. That was quite a "colorful" person that lived there before you. Taking all of the appliances AND lights? What's wrong with this person? Good luck and have fun. I'm looking forward to watching it take shape.

Corinne and Mark said...

Concrete box? Fire pit. Not that it gets terribly cold for very long in TX, but you could put a sturdy grate over it and have pig roasts!

I love the glass-paned door!

Aunt Corinne

Ashley said...

love it! can't wait to see it all finished! congrats!

Lauren P. said...

Can't wait to see the finished product...is has so much charm!