Drum Roll Please!??...

The Moment We've all been Waiting For  

Pictures!

Now Before I even looked at the pictures I thought "oh this will be a sintch!"

all I'll have to do is...

Upload - Write - Post

Right??

WRONG 

Turns out I have A LOT more Pictures of the "BEFORE" than I do the "AFTER"

And I am NOT about to post pictures of what my house looked like before we got our hands on it without the after pictures.. so we're going to keep this to a minimum. My apologies.

Now This Process is the farthest thing from easy, I can tell you that Right now. You think you have it all planned out in your head? .. You wont when it really comes down to it.

Just a few "DID YOU KNOWs"

Did you know:

There are an Infinite amount of color choices you could choose from while deciding a paint color? And every single one is different in certain lighting?

There are over 34 types of tile options ?

The patterns for tile.. ? Don't even get me started.

There are over 1,000 types of wood.

 And Carpet?... You can find that out on your own just remember to consider:

Texture

Color

Thickness

and

Padding

Now Before I get started I want to Recognize everyone who helped out so much with Everything

We couldn't have done it without them!

My Family, Jakes Family, Ward Members, Friends and so many more! Thanks GUYS!

Alright.. I'll Stop Blabbing...

When Jake and I first saw the Home, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "NO!" followed by a quick " are you joking me?" 

We walked in and found ourselves in what i thought could have been the dead center of the down town dump.

The Carpet: Was an attractive pretty grey.

The front entry/bathroom/ and kitchen flooring was linoleum.

The walls had food on them the base boards were covered in dirt and poopy stuff

but worst of all..

once you hit the top of the stairway, you may as well have passed out and fallen back down them to save yourself from the stench of ... of... things I DO NOT want to know. To say the least.. it was in BAD shape.

But Despite all of that.. we definitely saw some potential in the fixer upper.

and called it OURS

.. So

To get rid of the smell we started with ripping up the Carpet and Putting Kills on the floor. Kills were provided to us by the local Lowes

I Know.. I looked so excited.

But it worked. Smelly crap smell gone.. CHECK!

The Lighting in the home was terrible, The living room didn't have any electrical in the ceiling, just outlets for lamps and as for the kitchen, it had florescent lights that gave you the feeling as if you were in a fish tank.. Not okay!

so...

We started drilling, and doing electrical.. yes we did get shocked and yes.. a few inappropriate necessary words were said during the process.  We now have 3 rows of 3 canned lights in the living room and now the kitchen. Its Beautiful.

Now for the exciting part!...

Amazing.. I know

• We ripped out the poopy linoleum it was heart breaking.
• Made a Tile Pathway from the door to the kitchen
• Lined the living room and Pathway with Walnut Wood
• Got Thicker Base Boards and
• FINALLY decided on the paint color "Classic Khaki"

Next please!?

Excuse the Decor Leaned up against the wall.. this was a last minuet picture.

• We Ripped and replaced the Pretty Pee Pee Carpet. With "river rock" provided to us by Mike and Sterling's Flooring.
• Thicker Base Boards provided by Colonial Building Supply
• And a few Splashes of paint. provided by Sherwin Williams

and Last but Not least..

The Kitchen..

Now, before we moved in this is not what it looked like but this is what it looked like for a good two months.. "our Tool Shed"

Note: the Bottom Left Corner,That Tiled area is the pathway coming off of the entryway.

 The Kitchen is still a future project, but Its coming.. and I had to share my  DI Steal of the week, $2 Vase on the island! Love it!

The House Was a Huge Project and I had my doubts with some parts of it. But what makes this process so fun is to look back on pictures like these and see that we made the once Poopy, Crappy Smelling, House..

A

Beautiful, livable, Home.