LoVe HaTe

To say I loved or even liked my house when we bought it would be a lie. There was 2 reasons we bought o.k. 3 if you count budget. First it has 2800 sq feet and we needed 4 bedrooms. We made a rash decision because now we only use 1500sq ft and only 3 of the bedrooms. I could however invision making it better and giving it some lots of TLC. I needed to it was my house now.

My house has a daylight basement so from the outside it looks like one story. The top story has 3 bedrooms 1 bath and the living,kitchen and dining rooms. This is the level we use. Downstairs is a big master bedroom with bath, a laundry/ bath and a family room. After moving in I realized I was to far away from my then very small children (ages 1&2) a couple years later we moved our room upstairs.

Now for the tour of the bathroom. Brace yourself it is bad.

 I always remember to take before pictures after we have started so you will notice removal of wallpaper in the before.

If the flowers on the wallpaper weren't enough they thought they would be complimented by a flower curtain. All of the plumbing was in a fabulous shade of pink.

The toilet was immedietly removed due to the disgusting things growing under the lid. I will leave it at that.

We fully gutted the bathroom down to the studs. It was easier. Of course I can't find any pictures. I love demo part and the decorating it.

We had room for a double sink but I didn't want the bathroom to seem all counter so we went with 2 sinks.The frog prince (I have renamed Mr.T. every time I typed it I thought of gold and chains I went with this because he loves all his princesses and he is there prince. Also we just watched the Princess and the frog. Where was I?) oh ya the Frog Prince wasn't to keen on the 2 sink idea but I dug in my heels and won. I love it.

                                            And what every toilet color should be WHITE.

I really love my bathroom. I want to carry the blue to the rest of the house but again Frog Prince protests .He feels I would be copying a friend who also loves blue. I say it is receiving devine inspiration.

So I guess I have a love hate relationship with my house. As we fix it up I am starting to love parts of it but as a whole not so much.

Our goal is to continue to update our house then sale it in a few years with the hope of building a house with some land. We have learned so much these 5 years......

1. We want 1 level

2. We only want new construction NO FIXERUPPERS

3.I have a very handy husband who can do practically anything.