Homeowners at last!

We settled on the house on 7/20. Since that time, Ted has been a madman working constantly and without complaint! He is really the most motivated person i have ever seen! if you are interested in checking out the photo album, please let me know and i will forward the pics to you. there are way too many to post here. and they will just keep coming...i'll keep you posted on the progress.



needless to say, the house needs a ton of work but with Ted jumping right in, i believe that by Thanksgiving we will be entertaining and cooking a turkey for the family! We are only in Day 11 and we will be ordering our cabinets any day already. we have the plan, now it's just a matter of pricing it all out. it's ready for painting...so i am using mom's color sense to pick out the colors for the master bdrm and nursery. what i had dreamt for the nursery looks bad and so we had to regroup.

this is the basement, a view from the door coming in from the garage. the steps to go upstairs are directly to your right here. the basement goes back to extend into a laundry room and a tool room. while exploring the house for the first time an hour after settlement, we discovered mold in the basement. hence, this is why Ted went full-blown destroyer in this area. Tackling one problem at a time...

With all the carpets gone, the back porch gone, the kitchen cabinets and walls and floor gone (now rebuilt into beautiful drywall), bushes/trees gone...the house already looks 1000% better. it's amazing what ted can do when he puts his mind to it. I can already see our home developing into our nest!