Walk In Closet Idea's

Idea's for my walk in closet

 

 

HEAVEN!!!!

 

White cabinets, mirrors, fur area rug and a Chandelier is a must!!!!

Renovation day 2- Walk In Closet

Thank God for my brother and dad! Luckily they are both handy so they have been doing all the construction. We did more construction on my new walk in closet today.

 

view from the office

 



View from the Master Bedroom

 

The wall is closed here

 

 Working hard!!!

 

 This is what the wall looks like from inside the office

 

 

 

The start of my new walk in closet !!!!

 



Renovations Day 1

We started Renovations today in the living room!!

Our fireplace is about 10ft long, it reminds me of a fireplace that would be in a ski resort. It is huge and intrusive.

 

 

Our first project was to tackle the fire place....and it's safe to say we did!!!

 

 

 

We ( when I say we I mean my brother Chris and Sebastian) chiseled the stone off the wall, removed the wood beams on the sides, and chiseled out the hearth.

 

It is a complete mess right now but removing the hearth did add some room, which is exactly what I wanted and hoped for.

 

 

I did some work too!!! ( Not really, I pretended to saw )

 

 

 

 

I was abused though, I love that you can see the sheet rock being thrown at me.

 

 

Sebastian was excited to use a power tool. This picture just shows off the amount of horsepower he has.

 

We also want to expand our closet so we broke into the bedroom that is next to ours. After we did that we noticed that the plumbing to our bathroom was in that wall. We can still continue with our plans, we just need to reroute the plumbing.

 

 

Bye Bye Wall :)

 

 

 

On Friday we ( I love to say we ) are framing out the closet and going to finish up that project...and then on to the next one!

 

 

For now we have a messy, dirty, dusty house!!!

 

 

 



Officially Homeowners Today!!!!

 

 

We are officially homeowners today. We closed on our first home and were given the keys. I went over to the house alone after work and hung out there for a bit. I turned on every light, I opened every closet door, I looked for all the electrical sockets, and took 3473847398 pictures. (link below)

PICTURES OF OUR HOME HERE

 

As it got dark I started to hear all the noises the house makes. I kept getting nervous. I have to get familiar with the noises this house makes. I can sit at the house I grew up in and hear any noise and its not alarming, but in this house it was unfamiliar and was creeping me out. 

 

I still cant believe we own it, it is ours. I cant wait to make many happy memories there with Sebastian, our family, and friends.

 

 

 

( crooked lamp post...got to love it )

 

 

 I love these old numbers that used to be on the house. I want to save them for a project in the future.

 

 

 

 



Closing this Friday!!!

It feels like it has been forever since we found our house. This process is long and boring and you feel so out of control. 

BUT!

We got our closing date!!!

Friday

August 16th, 2013

@ 12:00PM

Ikea's Billy Bookcases

I was wondering how I was going to build "built ins" or how much I was going to have to pay...but I just discovered "Billy's Bookcases" from Ikea. They are $59.99 and look BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/13690607/#/83688210

These are the "Billy Bookcases"!! Love!

They used the Billy Byom doors here

Need to buy extenders.

Cant wait to do this!!!!!

Still no closing date

Everyone said that buying a house is a long process... I understand now! We found this house in May and it is now August and we still do not have a closing date. I wouldn't mind but we are on a time clock. If we don't close on the house before next week our interest rates will change. 

They told us 3 weeks ago we would have the closing date by the end of the week... when that never happened they said we needed a house survey because ours is from 2005. This is the only problem they said...after this survey is done we should have a closing date.

I am happy and annoyed all at the same time. Happy because my job is 5 minutes from my parents house ( where we live now), and I like to come home and hang out with my family. I don't want to go home to an empty house :( I guess I will get used to it. And annoyed because I hate when people give you the run around...and it's not their money thats being wasted, its ours.

Hoping for some good news this week!!!!