Friday, September 30

A Little Charm


Still in transition but, it's starting to feel like home.
Flashback Fridays show our Something's Gotta Go projects!


LARGE LOT: BEFORE
LARGE LOT: AFTER
FRONT OF HOUSE: BEFORE
FRONT OF HOUSE: AFTER
ENTRY: BEFORE
ENTRY: AFTER

DINING ROOM/PIANO ROOM: BEFORE
DINING ROOM/PIANO ROOM: AFTER
FAMILY ROOM: BEFORE
FAMILY ROOM: AFTER
KITCHEN: BEFORE
KITCHEN AFTER
LAUNDRY ROOM: BEFORE
LAUNDRY ROOM: AFTER
MASTER BEDROOM: BEFORE
MASTER BEDROOM: AFTER
BEDROOM 2: BEFORE
MASTER BATH: BEFORE
MASTER BATH: AFTER
BEDROOM 2: 
BEDROOM 2: AFTER
BEDROOM 3: BEFORE
BEDROOM 3: AFTER
HALL BATH: BEFORE
HALL BATH: AFTER
BACK OF HOUSE: BEFORE
BACK OF HOUSE: AFTER
GARAGE: BEFORE
GARAGE: AFTER


Thursday, September 29

Only Character



...but the charm is yet to come!
LARGE LOT

FRONT OF HOUSE

ENTRY
FAMILY ROOM

KITCHEN
LAUNDRY ROOM
Dining/Piano Room
MASTER BEDROOM

MASTER BATHROOM

BEDROOM 2

BEDROOM 3
HALL BATHROOM

GARAGE
PATIO
BACK OF HOUSE

BACKYARD
GARAGE

Wednesday, September 28

SOLD


FINALLY it happened!  After many attempts by our realtor to lower our price, after tons of no shows and tons of showings where we left the house so the prospective buyer could look (snoop) around, after countless times of being told, "it only takes one," after Halloween, Thanksgiving, Bennett's birthday, Christmas, New Years, and finally with Spring...the one walked through the door!
The doorbell rang.  For some reason, this time, I couldn't get us and our stuff in the car fast enough.  I opened the door and the realtor explained who he was while I over-talked him at a ratmillion miles a minute...excuses for not getting out of his way sooner!
A little delay on my part, his words that I was speaking over...finally were absorbed.  "Please stay, I'm just the buying agent and I would love to hear about your house and your neighborhood."  What!?!  Now I had the other side of worries...does he know what he's saying!?!?  I have THREE kids that are going to be answering right beside me...and would there answers scare him away!?!?  
I stayed, enjoyed a visit with a realtor that could see the updates in our home and appreciated them one after another.  It was an instant connection.  He explained that he had a buyer living overseas in the military and they had hired him to be their buying agent....to select the house for them to buy...sight unseen!
I would NEVER be able to trust a stranger to buy a house for me.  TOTAL CRAZY for a type A person!!!  However, we couldn't have been more thankful for this wonderful realtor that sold our home for nearly what we were asking...in a market that had begun to slump!!!  
Pack it up...move it out...somethings gotta go!!!