House Hunt

I know this is so late but I had a few pictures from our house hunt back in march that I wanted to share!

We started looking to move in february, hunted through march and moved in april. When we were packing to move out of our old house, I snapped a few "last second" pictures.

Wish I had some before pictures of these flower beds. We totally redid them.

Alex's mom laid the first few rings of bricks down around the tree a long time ago and while we lived there, I used a bunch of random bricks to lay down the rest. I also extended the back patio on the other side (not shown) including a red/yellow checkered BBQ area.

Alex and I loved sitting on this porch to watch the sunset.. Quiet dirt road in a little farm town, a million colors and then a million stars :)

Adieu 1705!

Pretty parks

The pictures of these houses online were NEVER what the real deal was like. This house was small but pretty online and completely trashed in person. The realtor told us that though this was one of the worst she'd seen, it wasn't totally uncommon. A lot of people were angry when losing their houses back during the real estate crash and before getting evicted, after getting foreclosed on, they would trash the house. Everything was broken. Even the wall mounted ceramic soap dishes were smashed with a hammer.

This house said "minor repair needed" and when we got there, the roof was caved in.

Mr.Fix It

Alex worked SO hard to fix up the house and he made it look fabulous! He did tiling, wood floors, drywall, baseboards, septic work, all types of calking and grouting.. not to mention both of our cars breaking down and him fixing them both as well. He's a super stud.

He replaced the foaming in the entire living, hall and dining room and new wood in the dining room.

Drywall in the 1/2 bath

Cutting tile

Tiling the big bathroom

I don't even remember what happened here
but there were many ouchies during this project

Grouting

And in case somehow you saw this post but not the one about this project..

CLICK HERE

Plumbing Fix & Pix

Dealing with disaster becomes a time of trials for any couple and I feel proud of how much we've stuck together. It means when things get tough, we get closer. I'm lucky to have a sweet supportive husband that continuously perseveres over adversity. Speaking of adversity..

About two weeks after moving into our new house, we lost all draining and flushing. The plumbers came out and did a temporary fix. Then overnight the half bath toilet overflowed poopy water, ruining the brand new wood flooring in the dining room. The pipe exiting the house was just rotted away. It took 7 days to replace all the sewer pipes in the house and in the process, they had to cut up all the brand new tile in both bathrooms..

CLICK HERE TO SEE PIX FROM OUR HOTEL STAY

Dining floor after the flood. I really couldn't capture it on camera but it was so bad and covered the entire room.

Yes. That is what you think it is.
Did I mention it's THIS ^ water that flooded the dining room?? Yes.

<-- Back of the house before. 

They dug a trench around the house to avoid more damage. -->

Tunnel under the driveway.
It was like 10ft long and 4ftdeep so this picture was hard to get.

<-- Your guess is as good as mine.

After the job was done.-->

Big Bath

DONE!

1/2 Bath

<-- Before | After -->

New pipes in the wall too

Laundry room

 <-- Before

<-- After + Paint -->

 Throughout the weeks of fixing all the damage to the house, absolutely everything that could go wrong, did.

CLICK HERE for pics of the work getting done

And let us not forget the hideous mess

Toilet in our hallway. NBD.

On to the next adventure!