On Sunday I received the keys to 801 finally! Since then I've been slowly moving loads down as well starting to paint EVERYTHING....
But here is a tour of the house as is! Lots more to come as we paint and I get all moved in. Sorry for the horrible photos but I had forgotten my real camera at home.
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| The Dining room that you enter into from the front door |
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| The Living room to the left when you walk in |
Walking through the dining room you enter in the kitchen. Which is large enough for a breakfast table. There is lots of work to be done in the kitchen. The cupboards need to be painted and there is tons of damage on the wall where there was a leak.
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| Area for breakfast table |
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| The back door looking from the hallway |
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| So man cupboards to paint... |
You then walk through the kitchen to the only bathroom in the house. This also needs lots of love like the kitchen does. Lots of paint on cupboards and drawers and hopefully new hardware will make this space feel new and different.
Then on the first floor is the largest bedroom.
Then in the small hallway there is a stair case that leads upstairs to smaller bedrooms. These both are slightly finished but atop the stairs is still raw cedar plank. I'm hoping to pain this and brighten the upstairs.
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| If you look closely you can see the cutest gold dust catchers in the corners of the stairs. |
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| The raw cedar plank walls |
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| The front small upstairs bedroom |
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| The back small upstairs room |
In the past week I have (along with help from my Dad) have painted the large bedroom and the living room. I prepped the dining room so that my dad can tackle that while I'm at work tomorrow. I'm hoping to also get the small bedroom upstairs painted before I make the big move in this weekend. I want to be able to kind of set up my closet when I move in and painting that first will make it easier. I haven't decided if I should do a color in the kitchen.
Right now everything is being painted with Benjamin Moore's intense white. It is covering wonderfully and giving it a nice cool white feeling. At first it was a weird color next to the warm yellow beige white the walls were prior. I had a small freak out moment thinking "AM I PAINTING MY HOUSE BLUE!?" Once the rooms were completed and the old color covered it feels white. So weird!
Can't wait to move my bed, couch, and other large items on Saturday. It will be easier to work on the house once I'm in it instead of needing to prep to go work on it and just be there.
