I have some pictures of the house! People have been asking to see some so here are some pictures. It's definitely not finished, and I am not posting pics of the basement or the guest rooms yet because they are a disaster!
Right now my favorite room happens to be the bathroom, but I am pretty sure that is only because it's the most complete room. The halfway finished rooms do not sit well with me!






I was originally going to paint the bathroom a lilac as well (the light purple in the shower curtain), but I changed my mind, naturally. I'm very happy with the yellow color, I think it's a nice contrast!

The living room, I must say, I love the living room! Green is my favorite, and it makes me happy so it's awesome. It will be better when we find something to put on the wall over the couch. The walls have taken a backseat to most everything else. There are so many things that need to be done first! But here is the living room so far.





Now for the kitchen and dining room. This room was the biggest pain to paint! I will definitely not be changing the color of this room anytime soon!







So there it is, pictures. I will post pictures of the other rooms once I start putting things in them. Right now they are basically just storage cells for all of the unpacked boxes which is less than desirable to post for everyone to see. So as soon as they look cute there will be more pictures. Hope everyone enjoys :)

CLOSING DAY! We are homeowners! It feels like we have been going through this process forever, but it was not difficult(just feels like it)! But we had a GREAT realtor ,which I think really helps, and in reality it did not take that long at all. If you need a referral let me know! I've been shopping ALL weekend for stuff for the house, and my personal favorite thing we bought is this chair. I loved it and had to have, so it became the inspiration for the living room. Brian also went to some garage sales this weekend and picked up a few things. My favorite was a set of bookshelves he bought for $10 each. I had to do quite a bit of work on them, and am still not finished. But thanks to some neighbors and Brian's mom they are close to finished. When I can get my camera to work with my computer I will post a before pic. But here is one of the bookshelves (they are identical)




I had to strip the original blue paint, sand them , and paint them. The bookshelves just need a couple coats of polyurethane and the new hardware I purchased and they will look great!




I will update pics of these as soon as I take them. Other projects that I have done include refinishing a nightstand, which still needs new hardware and a new pic!
Also, a couple of friends, Phil and Chris, came over and stained a trunk I bought of off craigslist and plan to use as a coffee table. It looks great and now matches my other living room tables.Over the last few days I have been so overwhelmed with all of the details in the process, but I know as soon as we get everything painted and moved in it will be great! I will post more pics as I take them and I will try to do so sooner than later.

The Process

So in February we decided to start thinking about purchasing a house. We were pre-approved by the bank that month and by March we had found a real estate agent who is great! We found the first home that we liked, and after following our real estate agent's advice to have the garage tested for mold,then soon found out it indeed did have mold :( . So again, our search began continued. In April we finally (well what seemed like finally to my impatient self) found a house that seemed promising, so we went ahead with it. We did some back and forth with the negotiations and finally came to an agreement. The came the (dun dun dun) INSPECTION! Well turns out there was water in the basement and our promising home suddenly seemed not so promising. Water in home=BIG problem. We hired someone to go take a look at the home and found 3 foundation cracks, which is bad news. However, we FINALLY, (and I actually do mean finally this time) negotiated a deal which resulted in the seller paying for the repairs. So we are now on track to buying this home, and our closing date is June 1st. I promise my next posts will be much more interesting, but this was kind of the low down on my personal hell for the last 3 months (exaggerating, it wasn't really that bad just a bit stressful). The next posts will contain pics and projects that I do to make this home mine ours!