The things you find...

It is always exciting pulling areas of an older house apart. You never know what you might get. So here is another gem that a friend and I ran into tearing out the Built In desk and closet in the Master Bedroom.

So below what you will find is a nice piece of memorabilia from the 60's? Maybe 50's? I cannot tell for sure what era this piece of wall paper came out of but I would like to think the 50's if I had a choice.

TIMBER!!!

So this past Saturday, we took down the two trees that blocked the view of the house. We have been dying to have these two trees taken out. A friend of ours, Jeff, was dying to take this thing out .... especially when he found that this "project" was going to require a chain saw. 

Jeff is a great friend and worked so hard at getting these trees down. I could not have asked for a better helper on this. He was soo excited to see the results.

So now, with Jeff's help, the house looks very different. You can actually see it!! The neighbors that stopped by while we where in the middle of tear out literally said, "WOW!". 

Unfortunately it got too dark to take the final picture. Instead I am going  to post my favorite picture of the day.

Boys Room Is Finished

We continue to work on painting projects in our house. One of the harder rooms to paint has been our kids' room. Not because of the walls, it has been the Pine wood on the walls and the built in dresser. Anyways, below are the before and after pictures.

Before

After

The Office

So when we looked at this house originally, there was this office built in the garage. Talk about going back to the 50's or 60's. It was pretty nostalgic as well as a little creepy. I have posted some pictures below of before and after the tear down. We did decide to leave the cabinets that are against the outside just for storage for the time being.

Here it is Before:

Here is the inside view:

All Gone!!

First Look

Thought we would post some pictures of the new house in the state it is in for now. There is not a whole lot to do on this house, it was kept in really good condition, it is just old.

Below are the pictures. This is a slide show, you can roll over the picture to pause or move backwards or even forwards.

Sean and Rosa

Git R Done

Finally!!

We are all complete, Sale of the house to us is recorded and we can take the keys to our new home!

Sean

It's like Christmas Eve!!

The night before we get the key to Dana Place. We are both so excited. 

We cannot wait to get the keys so that we can start the transformation of our new home. 

This home is in a dream area of ours. I remember driving down these streets with my mother when I was little and always wished we could live here.

It seems like the closing process has taken soo long however, it has been a rather short time of 30 days. We have been blessed to have the ability to rent our current house and purchase this new property.

This blog has one main purpose, to share with friends and family,  pictures and stories as we go through the various improvements on this house.

So in the next post, I will post pictures that I recently took on one of our final walk through visits.

In the meantime, here is the first picture from outside.

Sean