Home Owners

Taylor and I closed on a house about three weeks ago. It’s a three bedroom, two bath, fixer-upper, and considering where we live, it was actually a steal.

I have to admit, that we came into the whole “fixer-upper” thing with starry-eyed optimism. We looked around at our grimy house and said “No problem, we just need to paint the walls and ceilings of every room, and rip up the carpet, and redo the cabinets, and regrade the front yard, and replace the gutters, and …”

All this improvements are easily accomplished in one’s naïve imagination. We thought we’d get our master bedroom completed in three days, then complete the kitchen shortly there after – why, the house would be ready to live in within two weeks! Three weeks later, we just now finished the living room, have of the kitchen, started the downstairs path and have to complete the upstairs bathroom tonight.

When we first start home-improving, the phrase “money-pit” began to ring around my head, but I have to say that after dedicating 4-5 hours after work every night straight for the past three weeks, we’ve come a long way. Tomorrow we hope to actually get our stuff in the house, and we may be living in our home by the beginning of next week – as long as I can clean the 20+ years of mold and soup scum out of the bath tub …