About a month ago we decided to try to figure out if we would be able to move, mostly because we wanted to maybe downsize our payment to save for the future. We looked around for almost 3 weeks, and all we could find in our price range were pretty rundown 1500 or less square foot homes. We were pretty discouraged so we talked to an accountant to see what we could do or even if pursuing this would even be a good idea. Come to find out that it is not in our cards right now so we decided to make some changes to our home instead to make it more like a NEW home for us, and relieve our stresses of our home.
So for the past couple weeks we (meaning me) have been working on fixing up the house. We have stained all of the cabinets in all of the bathrooms, and have made them all (except the basement one, that will be at another time) basically new. New floors, new caulking in all the tubs/showers, new paint, and also we have been framing in all of the mirrors to make them look nicer. I have finally convinced Hubby to let me paint all of our browns in our home to light grays. It really has taken a long time, almost a year, to get him to agree to this. I'm just tired of looking at our brown walls that we've had for the past 13 years.
We also have replaced our broken Microwave, gotten a new dryer, and in turn got a washer for basically free. We got both the washer and dryer for the price of just 1 mediocre dryer. Clearance is the best. We also have worked on refurbishing our table to have it match and last longer. The next big project is getting a shed in the back yard. We just got cement poured about a week ago and now we need to get the shed ordered and up before the carpet comes. We plan on putting everything in the shed while the carpet gets put in and then slowly put everything back after we get new windows.
I know that some of this is really expensive stuff but I know that it will help our utility bills go down in the long run. e.g. Windows (power and gas bills), Washer and Dryer will help on my Power bills because the dryer was taking at least 2-3 cycles to dry anything.
Some of the other things are there for sanity, like the shed and then there is the art on the walls that is done by the kiddos and the carpet is because the old stuff is at least 18 years old, GROSS.
So for the past couple weeks we (meaning me) have been working on fixing up the house. We have stained all of the cabinets in all of the bathrooms, and have made them all (except the basement one, that will be at another time) basically new. New floors, new caulking in all the tubs/showers, new paint, and also we have been framing in all of the mirrors to make them look nicer. I have finally convinced Hubby to let me paint all of our browns in our home to light grays. It really has taken a long time, almost a year, to get him to agree to this. I'm just tired of looking at our brown walls that we've had for the past 13 years.
Some of the other things are there for sanity, like the shed and then there is the art on the walls that is done by the kiddos and the carpet is because the old stuff is at least 18 years old, GROSS.
Table ended up being all Black because it was looking weird. Also the chairs need to be sandblasted and painted too.
New laminate wood flooring
The hubby is doing me a favor by cutting out the wall so that I can build in a shelf for books.