First Week of owning the house: Working Away already!!!!

Matt, Beth and Kristi working on the brick wall, tearing it down. We needed it torn down so we could put the trailer there. We are saving the bricks and going to clean them and re-use them for the house or for the yard.


Kristi working on the brick wall.


Kristi, Alicia, and Beth taking a picture and a break. Alicia was wearing a dress and got away with not working on the house that day- but she will someday! :) hehe



In order to fit the trailer there, we had to cut down a tree. Dad and Matt were working on cutting down that first tree.



The Trailer is being delivered. This is where we will be living for the next couple months, just 30 feet away from our house so that we can go to and from the house when we are working.




Matt is working on the bricks and putting them in a pile after tearing down the wall.

This is the trailer we bought for the next couple months for us to live in.










Buying some working gloves

Picking out a mailbox


Matt and Dad using a Post Hole Digger to dig some holes in the ground for the posts for the fence in the front yard.




This is the key to the house!!!!!!

Dad made a mailbox for us, and it's all ready for mail!!!!!!!! :)

The Inside of the house

These are a few photos of the inside of the house.


Walking in the front door, this is what you see. This will be our living room. We are knocking out that wall with the shelves in it, because that is the back of the kitchen wall as well. We will make a bar from the far right wall to the halway to make the kitchen have more space, and I always loved half-walls with a bar to sit facing the kitchen.




Now, standing in the living room, and looking behind to the front door again. The view from the front door is amazing!


This is our Master Bedroom.




This is the Guest Bedroom.

This is the ugly bathroom that we are definately renevating. We are pretty much tearing this bathroom apart completely and rearranging everything!






This is the kitchen, which we are going to completely tear apart and rebuild. This is going to be quite a project! We are tearing out that plain pink wall and making that into a bar (half wall) to open up the kitchen a lot!




This is the view from the kitchen to the dining room. The dining room is quite cute!



The Dining room has two doors: a back door and a side door. Very nice windows too! The floor is a mess, and we will have to re-do all the floors in the whole house.

The view of the hallway in the house.

The view of the front porch.

Our New House

These are a few photos of the outside of the house and the property.


This is the first driveway of three driveways to our house. This driveway goes to the way back of the property and to the barn.


The second driveway. From the moment we got the house, we've been trying to trim those trees so that we can drive through this driveway. We are still trimming them as we speak!


This is the view of the front of the house from the road. The far right side of this picture is where the third driveway is located at, and goes around the side of the house to the back of the house. We park our car behind the house.




This is the front of the house, with the front porch. It looks like they may have screened in the front porch at one time. Our plan for this front porch is to open it up and make some 3 feet high white pillars around the porch. The view from the porch to our front yard is amazing. If you sit on the front porch and look out at the sun setting, it is one of the most amazing feelings. Even with the house in the shape it is in, it feels like a retreat away from the city, because of all the trees and the quiteness of the yard.



The front of the house

Beautiful big windows in the front of the house.





One of our side windows of the house.






This is the view of the back of the house. I think it's quite cute!


And this is the huge barn! After finishing up the house, we will decide on what we will do with this barn, but we were thinking of renevating it to make it more stable and we were thinking of fun colors to paint it as well. We are still deciding between keeping it bright red with white trim, or painting it light brown with white trim. We will see what we decide when the time comes to work on the barn. :)



This is the tower that is in our side yard. Later, after we fix up the house, we were thinking of making this tower more stable and making it into some sort of reading room or children's playhouse. We're not sure on the plans for this as of yet. :)





This is an old wishing well that is on our side porch, next to the house. It's not the actual well, but rather probably there for decoration.