Let me quickly take you back to May 2012. We had a decision to make when we moved back to Houston. Buy a home and move in right away, rent an apartment month to month while taking time to look, or live with the husband's parents. Many normal and logical people try to limit the amount of change happening at one time. Not us. We thought living seperately, working full time, job searching, preparing for a move, and buying a home all at once seemed like a good plan.
HAHAHAHAHA (that was us laughing at those normal/logical people).
We went with option "buy a home and move in right away". We thought moving one time from Waco to Houston was such the obvious way to go. So we did it. We found our dream home! Those normal, logical people are boring and don't know what they're talking about. It's better to get it all done at once.
Now, I'm not going to go so far as to say our home isn't our dream home. I love it. Mainly for the memories and traditions that I know will take place here for years to come. But I would like to share with you all the things that have happened to us thus far. After all, this blog is called "It Happens" and boy, has it happened with this house.
Over the first year of owning our home, here are the rennovations we have done (most out of sheer necessities):
1. New windows in half the house (it use to rain inside our home before the new windows)
2. Scrapped all popcorn ceilings (popcorn should only be used as a snack, not wall treatment)
3. Painted every room, hallway, bathroom, ceiling (with threat of only 4 divorces minimal fighting)
4. New insullation (oops, someone forgot to put any in the house at all... in Texas)
5. New pipes (if you ever need this, be prepared to part of your first born child to pay for this)
6. Rod iron fence (this was a neccessity since Vedder attacked a pit bull, lost, and had to go the ER vet on a Sunday to get tubes, skin grafts, and stiches... let's just say the fence was a lot cheaper than having this happen 2 times)
7. New furniture (some rooms remain empty to this day)
8. Chimney updates (loooove our wood buring fire place, love the fire staying inside the fireplace even more)
9. Landscaping (neighbors stopped for months to thank us for doing this, best money spent yet)
10. Extermination (infestation of wasps who didn't realize we now possessed the title to this property)
11. Dry wall/ceiling repair from leaking AC unit (this also lead to removing the carpet form our bathroom and yes you read that correctly, carpet in the bathroom...)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (that is the logical and normal people laughing at us)
Perhaps waiting a beat before jumping into new jobs, new home, new city could have been a good idea. Maybe those normal/logical people are on to something...
Next on our renno list... total redo of our master bathroom. Sounds exciting right? Well, I'll save that story for another post...
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