Wednesday, February 23, 2011

This Old House

In a couple of months it will be two years since we bought our first house.  It was built in 1979, so it is a little on the old side.  For a house, not a person!!  ; )  And it has not been updated since it was built.  I wasn't very excited about updating a house.  I wanted to move into a pretty, new house.  But, I caved and we bought this old house.  We can't afford to do much updating, but we have done a bit of painting, put in great carpet, removed popcorn ceilings, put in a couple of new ceiling fans and finally this week painted the outside, had a new garage door put in and a new roof.  The outside of the house looks AMAZING!!  We think so, at least.  We just need to something about the yard.
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We also updated the downstairs bathroom not too long after we moved in.  I don't have a before picture.  But, it was really ugly.  We put in a granite vanity and some decorations.  I love it!

We also did a little to our "formal" living room.  I still need to decorate.  I'm so cheap and horrible at decorating.
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We still have a TON of updating to do.  The one I cannot wait for is the kitchen.  It is awful!!  Maybe with this year's tax return....

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