Friday, June 25, 2010

Home Sweet Home....almost

We received the keys to our new home on May 21st 2010 and started working immediately!

There was much to do with the popcorn ceilings, bad paint jobs, smelly carpet, bad windows, old doors, inadequate closet space, and dungeon like bathroom!

Once we got out of our condo we were living in the apartment on the side of my in-law's house along with 4 couches, 2 beds, 2 long dressers and two kitchen tables....talk about cramped space! We worked diligently with SPACE as the goal!

Let me give you a tour of what we walked in to at the beginning of this exciting journey....

This was the front room, great first impression eh?



And this was the dining room, termite eaten wood put "talently" along the walls


The kitchen was next, not in horrible shape, but could use a face lift to bring it from the 50's to today :)



Then you would walk down the never ending WHITE hallway, making you feel like you were headed to some sort of insane insullum or something! It was in desperate need of some color!

Then if the hallway wasn't enough white for you, the first bedroom was WHITE as well. Set up perfect to do a two toned room, just not used to it's extent.




Right as we begin to think the previous owners didn't know how to paint or didn't ever complete a paint job, we come to the second bedroom....we like to call it the tiki room! Isn't it beautiful....I wanted to leave it this way forever!!!! hahahahaha YEAH RIGHT!

An average person would probably start to get scared and not want to move on through this house. I guess you can say Jimmy and I are not average ;). Across the hall you will find the master bedroom. It was in the best shape, just needed to become mine!

Now you are a little more familiar with what we walked into. A lot of work but we could see it's potential.

We have talked to a few different realtors that we know and each one said they had shown that house multiple times and could never get anyone to walk past the ORANGE room! Our realtor was one that said that and she was SO excited when we told her we liked the house and wanted to put an offer on it. She said she loved when she helped someone get into a fixer upper, its make the home become YOURS and not what someone else pictured for you. We have loved working on our house and making it our home. The work is almost done, which means more pictures to come :)

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Oh how time flies!!!

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted anything on here! Life has been crazy but SO fun!!!! Since it has been so long, I feel it is necessary to give a little glimpse into what has been going on the last 8 months....


I got engaged....at Disneyland...would have been the next post except planning had to begin IMMEDIATELY to prepare for...


My wedding 8 weeks later :)

Then of course, who has time to update the blog when you are....On a honeymoon back at the Happiest Place on Earth?!

In front of the ride where it all began :)


As soon as the honeymoon was over, it was back to reality...time to set up a new home and get ready for Christmas! (This was before the couch came and we were improvising with my sister's Foof Chair...)

Of course we left some time to having fun and dressing up to carry on an inside joke with the sister in law ;) Love ya Katie!

Then of course, who likes to stay in the same place for more than 4 months?! haha (sense the sarcasm?) We decided to look at houses, just for fun... We both got an extremely good feeling about the very first one we looked at so we jumped on it! We closed on the house on May 21st, 2010. Signing away our lives in the process haha.


Had to take a break from all that jazz to visit my best friend in the hospital where she welcomed her second baby boy, Max, into the world./


Then we welcomed our new addition Duke Hunter Tenney into the family. With a new house and a backyard next to the alley, we needed someone to protect it...plus we both wanted a chocolate lab :) *good excuse to get one eh?*


Work on the house started immediately, in order to qualify for any sort of tax credit, we had to be living in the house with in 30 days of close...there was a lot of work to be done to make it livable so we picked up our scrapers and paint brushes and got to work!


With all of the painting in swing in the "creative" bedrooms the house had, we lost track of what the pool started to look like and got to play pool doctor.....
We still aren't pros but it looks better than this now ;)

There is a just glimpse of what the Tenney's have been up to since October of 2009...more to come with updated pictures of the house!!!