Tim and the guys lived in the house for nearly 3 before the two of us met. Granted, it was new when they moved in, it was still a guys house. Tim did a good job making sure that the house stayed manageable, the carpets stayed rather clean, no holes in the walls and no funky stuff happening to the place that would normally happen with renters.
The walls were the manufacture white color with smudges and chips, the carpet has gotten stretched out, the garage has stains all over from our beloved pet Slinky (ferret). A bunch of random things around the house that got left here when the guys moved out, the college furniture has continued to hang on and the yard too had only been maintained to keep from getting any worse.
This is not me saying that anything could have been different for the better, I congratulate them for keeping it as nice as they did. Tim working full time and the other guys working on grad school and jobs of their own, it would have been a big job to do too much more. Props to the guys!
All this to say, here and there in our dating I started doing little things to improve the place, further setting me up for the big things I get to do now. Truly making the house our own. We started together with a pretty awesome clean slate.
* Those white walls? Yes, we have no gotten to paint our master bedroom, laundry room, downstairs bathroom, entry way and our kitchen. Our guest bedroom downstairs is very soon to follow, as I already have the paint.
* Stretched out carpet? We will soon see about getting someone in to come and trim the excess.
* Garage? I have organized and gotten rid a bunch of the random stuff that doesn't need to be there.
Unfortunately, not much can be done about the floor stains, I think. I will have to look into that more. First we need to build Slinky a much bigger and awesome cage to live in all the time, rather then living free range.
* Furniture? We have gotten rid of a few things, several couches and other things. We got our selves a "new" couch, thanks to the Rocklin yard-sales and it matches the Lazy Boy arm chair we had.
* The yard? Oh my favorite thing of all! The grass was completely weed filled and in awful condition. The ground didn't drain and had many potholes in it. We killed it, dug it all out, filled in the ground with good soil and reseeded with a local grass blend. A bunch of the bushes that were in the yard originally, Tim and I tore out to replace with nicer things. It feels like we are starting to have a little paradise back there.
>> We also have built a vegetable garden bed. Still have to fill it with dirt from the worm farm, but we will soon be able to grow our one veggies :D I can't wait!
I would say we are well on our way at this point to making our home totally awesome.
If you would like to see the progression our our house please feel free to check out our pictures on Jaime's facebook.
Well, three posts in one evening, I am pooped. Time to hit the hay.
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