The soon to be new casa!

Here it is the soon to be new home!  I am going to attempt to give you a photo tour of the home so that you can see what our new space will look like and see how much work we have ahead of us. 

She already had the landscaping looking really good so not much work there except removing concrete lawn ornaments.  I realize that my husband's nickname is Buddah but I am not too keen on having a concrete Buddah in my front yard.  You can also see the little pond/fountain surrounded by rocks behind the hastas.

I am trying so hard to talk her out of this lawn furniture.  I tease that I am going to glue it to the (soon to be painted another color than crayon green) porch so that she can't take it with her.  :)

Alright now we are in the front door. I'll just get this out of the way.  I hate this carpet with a passion but until we can afford to replace it I have to deal with it.  :/ Straight ahead is living room, door on left will be drywalled to create a bedroom for A & A out of the now dining room.   The hallway extends down to the left past dining room door and leads to the bedrooms and bathroom.  The door on right leads to the kitchen and a small closet is between kitchen door and living room.

We are now turning right into the kitchen. It was recently updated to include new cabinets, counter tops, floor and a crap load of chicken decor. Wall paper removal Mission #1 (more the make you follow please grab trash can in preparation of the master 1/2 bath soon to follow) This kitchen has awesome light.  The porch window is the kitchen window so there is a ton of natural light.

This is opposite wall of kitchen.

We have now turned and are looking at the wall that runs to your left when you walk into the kitchen.  The door that you are seeing leads into the living room and the framed door is the basement door that is in the mudroom.

Step down into the mudroom.  Garage door on left next to basement door and door on right leads to front of house.  Cabinets will be turned into pantry and I am really wanting one of those bench seats to put next to it with coat hooks above for a coat/hat/shoes zone. 

This is opposite side of room. Freezer is going to stay and I am working on getting it moved to the garage and maybe moving computer to this corner maybe...

Gulp! The garage.....Please pray! 

We are now moving down to the basement.  This standing on the bottom of the steps.  Cool built ins that I will be painting.  Extra closet to my left out of view under stairs.  To the right is a cabinet that is blocking the view of the door to the utility room that will eventually be the home of Artistic Praise.

This is around the corner walking through the basement.  The basement flooded and the new carpet is going in sometime next week.  :)  I chose a medium brown not too dark not too light.  Behind the TV is the doorway to the bedroom downstairs.  This may be the home of Artistic Praise until I get the utility room where I want it in terms of ....well you'll see.  This room will be a playroom until I get out of the basement bedroom. 

This was James room while he lived in the house. This room is pretty big.  Paneling will be painted STAT!  Not a fan.  Great big closet too!

Good storage! The house has tons of storage space.

Now onto utility room.  This room will make a great studio.  I will be painting the walls and want to do a lot of curtains hanging from floor joists to hide shelving and washer and dryer. This room is broken up really weird so it will take some creativity to utilize the space the way that I want to.  Furnace/washer/dryer/ pipes are all spread throughout spreading across the space but the sink in this room will be great for projects!  I am sure I can come up with something.

Another awesome area for storage. This is one the left side back of the utility room.  Alright now that we have completed the right side kitchen mudroom basement combo we will again enter into the front door and begin the left side. 

This will be the twins room.  Doorway will be drywalled to close it in and you can see through to the kitchen and mudroom.  Note that chandelier will be taken down to put more bedroom appropriate lighting in.  This will not be thrown out.  I have plans for this bad boy!

Main bath.  Big tub with jets.  :)  Large vanity and a laundry shoot in the bottom of the vanity.  New flooring that was completed when the kitchen was remodeled.

Master bedroom.  I like that it has a fan but there is another problem with this room other than my favorite carpeting throughout.....

The half bath where the tragedy occurred. A couch exploded and landed perfectly flat on the walls.  Yikes!!  More wallpaper to remove STAT!  Did I mention that wallpaper is to be removed in both bathrooms kitchen and dinning room?  Jill I may take you up on that hanging out to help with the kids on that one.  ;)

This was Papaw's room and will become Victoria's room.  Good natural light and will be painted yellow and green that she has now. 

Opposite wall of bedroom. Think I might use this area for her green wall and put her a desk in here for her to do her homework and draw.

Now into the living room. Straight ahead is the fireplace and some more of that lovely wood paneling that must have been on sale the day they built the house.  More paint!  I am even thinking of painting the fireplace too. I have seen some pretty impressive before and after pics of painted fireplaces.  Can't wait to put my Willow tree figurines on that mantel.

 

Turn to the right in the living room.  Doorway that mother in law is standing in is the one in the kitchen that you saw earlier and french door to left where white curtain is leads to back deck.

More of that lovely green paint from the front porch!  This will be painted brown I believe.

Back view of the house.  You can see storage shed with massive amounts of space and ride on lawn mower that will come with house.  :)  Green trip on shed will be painted to match the deck too. 

Here they are!  My newest prize possessions, Papaw's rose bushes.  They are in the front yard along the left of the house.