Don't Get Too Excited!-Pictures of our house

Since we bought our house in December, I've had several friends and family members that haven't seen it, want me to post pictures. Why!?!?!? Because they haven't seen it.
Once you do, you'll understand why it's not that big of a deal. It needs a lot of work and in a few years I'll be glad to show everyone pictures! For now....not that exciting.

Don't get me wrong! I love our house, because it's ours. We get to do whatever we want with it, we got an AWESOME deal on it, and it's close to the college and the interstate. It's exactly what we wanted for our first house (ok-the rooms could be a little bigger!)....but it's a fixer-upper!!! (luckily Elden's pretty good at that sort of stuff and I get the hookups since my family owns a flooring company!)

Our front yard needs A LOT of work!!!

This is our front room. It's really crowded right

now until we finish the basement so we can

put the TV and stuff down there.

We have a little wall separating the

kitchen and the front room.

Tiny Kitchen

Narrow Hallway
One of the bedrooms that is now the office/craft room

Another bedroom that we've made into our walk-in-closet
since our bedroom can only fit a bed, cedar chest & 2 night stands. (I didn't take
a picture of our bedroom because elden is asleep).

Standing in one room, across the hall from the

EXTREMLY small bathroom.

The bathroom that has a BIG window right in the shower so I have to be sure I either shower at night or
make sure i turn the water hot enough to steam up the windows.

Stairwell down to the basement

This is the first room we're fixing up in our basement. Right now it's got food storage, and my treadmill and the tv I watch while on the treadmill, but soon it will be our office/craft room so the upstairs bedroom will be our guest bedroom.

I HATE this room! Generally, I enjoy doing laundry. But not in here!! It's disgusting and annoying that the washer and dryer can't be turned the same direction. Also, the furnice and water heater are in here as well as....



A giant hole we had to cover up. My dad gave us some teak decking to put over it. Elden made the board that covers the hole up. But before that, it was just a hole, and one day I was doing laundry and fell in it. Bruised half of my leg!

A room in the basement. Right now it is storage for pad, but eventually our plan is to make that the laundry/food storage room.

This is the room we're going to re-finish to make into the living room. I can't wait. Right now...just a bunch of stuff in it.

This is our garage. Right now, it's US Floors storage-which is fine because we have to put a new door on it before i start parking in it. It's probably the original door from when the house was built. It's really heavy, and doesn't stay open without a board holding it up.

Our back yard has potential. It has a pretty nice slab of concrete for a basketball court. It needs a privacy fence (the back neigbor has 2 dogs that bark at me all the time!!!) and a really crappy boat trailer that needs a tire (anyone need a boat trailer???) that we need to get rid of. But it's perfect for our garden (you can see the frame of the square foot gardens Elden is building for me).