I've been meaning to update here for weeks now, but Roy and I have literally been spending nearly all of our free time trying to repair the house to pass inspection for the USDA loan. The city came out earlier this week to inspect the new electrical panel we had installed and we received a certificate for that. We took a 8am - 5pm home-ownership course (long and tiring, but very insightful) and put about two grand into the repairs (not to mention several thousands worth of labor) and let me tell you, we were nervous... what if we'd invested all of this time and money into a house we weren't going to actually get? Well, we met with our agent this morning at the house and went over all the paperwork, and she inspected the repairs... we passed! On Friday the 9th, we sign the closing documents. Next week, the house is ours!!!!
Here's some pictures I've been meaning to post... I didn't have my camera with me to take any pictures of Roy up on the roof cleaning it off and trimming trees, so you just get to see the boring interior shots of me trying to cover up the horrid color scheme.
This porch is terrifying. We're eventually going to rip it out and build a new one, but for the inspection, we needed to scrape, clean, and repaint it.
Here's the kitchen. We've painted cream over the yellow and have begun scraping the blue off of the door and cupboards. That fridge is busted, but Roy's aunt is buying us a new one as a housewarming gift (because she is made of awesome and is proud of the hard work we've put into this place).
Those brown spots aren't a part of the carpet pattern. That's dirt and clay that's been worn into the carpet from people wearing their shoes in the house. We're eventually going to tear all the carpeting up and replace it with either laminate (since we can't afford to do hardwood) or, if we save up for awhile, we'd love to do bamboo. However, this won't be happening for several years, so we're doing our best to clean it up and make due.
Here you can see where the previous colorblind occupant decorated his and/or her bedroom in hunter green and lavender. The opposite wall is light grey. Lovely, no? Once we replenish our savings, we're going to replace the trim with a nicer white one and do molding on the ceiling in white, too. The walls look white, but when you see them with the other white trim in the house (that we're eventually going to replace, it wasn't done very well) you'll be able to see that it's actually cream.
Here is the living room, with gas fireplace, before and after.
I can't believe things are actually working out. There's still a tiny chance something might go wrong, but we're not going to give up.
