House Pictures

This is the outside front of the House - We don't really plan on any changes to this excpet maybe some landscaping in the spring.

This is the outside back yard area - We plan on raising the "deck" that is sitting on the ground to be level with the landing on the porch and extend it the entrie length of the house.

This is our Kitchen - Please excuse the horrid orange walls those will be taken care of Saturday morning. We plan on painting the back wall of the kitchen a deep red color and the rest of the walls a cream/beige color.

This is our living room - No real changes will be made here right off. Rick would like to install a wood floor of some sort down the line but not right away.

This is a view down our hallway from the living room - The first door on the right is our basement door (full basement). The bathroom is next in line (will get a picture tomorrow after the closing). The Master Bedroom is next (picture to follow). Next door to the MB is our guest room (again will get picture tomorrow after we close) and back up the hall is Joshuas room (picture to follow after closing).

This is the Master Bedroom - No changes that I can think of at the moment will be made to this room. We have 2 closets so that leaves plenty of room for all my clothes & shoes :). We can evenutally turn the 2nd closet into a bathroom if we wanted to since its back wall butts up against the bathroom wall (who knows if it will happen, but it would add GREAT value to the house).

This is our little shed in our back yard - we will of course make no changes to this but plan on putting the mower, trash cans, shovels, etc. inside.

Well those are the before pictures of our new home and hopefully after we get all moved in next weekend we can post some after shots :). Our first big project is the nursery for baby Josh! It is going to be the coolest Red Sox room this side of Fenway Park!

We close tomorrow

After over 6 weeks of waiting and losing hope, we finally get to close on our house tomorrow at 3pm!

The process was one of the more difficult things we have ever done. We looked at houses in our price range, out of our price range (high and low) without a lot of luck. Everything we looked at that we were told we could afford was a DUMP and the things we couldn't afford weren't so great either.

We had all but give up hope and were just going to put the whole process on hold until spring arrived hoping there would be some new choices for us. We were sitting at home one Thursday night when I got an email from our realtor with a house that had just been put on the market in our area. I opened the email to find a house that looked PERFECT. Was I skeptical of the house? You bet I was. Every house I saw that looked perfect always ended up being a big old dump. We decided that it was worth a look and hopefully we would be proved wrong. We set the appointment up for Saturday morning at 10am.

Saturday arrived and we jumped in the car and brought Charlie along (Rick's dad) so he could check things out too (he used to be a windows/doors/kitchen salesmen so he knows what to look for.) We arrived and were pleasantly surprised by the look of the house. Upon going inside my heart skipped a beat as I could see myself living in this house and bringing our little one home in May to this very house. We were the first people to look at the house and because of the price knew we had to make a move quick.

We talked about the house (pros/cons) when we got home and decided that all the pros outweighed the cons (not that I can think of any cons at this point). We decided that Monday we would make an offer. Once Monday got here we called our realtor and got the process moving. We signed our lives away for the first time and put in our offer. There was another couple looking at the house that afternoon and we were afraid they would also put in an offer (they did) so we upped our offer a bit and less than 24 hours later our offer had been accepted.

Like I said before this processes has had its up and downs but it has been worth every minute and every tear shed.

Here's hoping for a good day tomorrow and that nothing goes wrong!!!