Our secret find

Welp, I did it. I signed about 50 times and am now totally official. Several people asked "do you feel strange owning your own home??" and I can honestly say I dont have an answer for them...I dont walk around thinking, "wow!! How awesome is this???" I actually walk around trying to determine what is the most important thing to accomplish first. Now don't get me wrong, I am so excited that God has his hand all over my life. First, an amazing job...but then my own home!! My goal is to move in before school starts, NOT have the house completely remodeled. Right now, its survival mode...what needs to be done so that my brother and I can move in?? First, I walked around and took out EVERY drapery in the home. The smoke stentch just rolled off of them, so after I got them out, the house wasn't half as bad as it was from the beginning. I opened all the windows, some of which didnt seem to have been opened for years. Asthma is just an extra incentive to get a movin.

It's official!!

Our large pile of window treatments (now in the dumpster)

And down they come...

Smoke stains EVERYWHERE

And now the fun beings...we were taking down what we thought was only one layer of wallpaper...only to find...

THIS MASTERPIECE!!!

How do you even part with something this great!?!?!?! I just don't think it goes along very well with my decorating scheme...

Spencer and Lefty just hiking through our new scenery...

The wallpaper literally just fell off the walls in some places...it had to have been baked off by the smoke

Almost all done.

Guest room at the beginning of the day...

Guest room tonight.

Flooring!! Gonna need some work...:)

So...as you can see, we have our work cut out for us. My goal is to start putting down primer within the end of this week/early next week. I'm excited at all the potential that is continuing to make its way to our house. Shout out to our neighbors, the Thiesse's...they have been GREAT...bringing over misc tools/water/chairs. It's kinda fun living next to friends. So, this brings this post to an end. Tomorrow, we caulk all the holes, re-key the doors, and take down all the hardware so that hopefully paint can start to go up soon. I am unsure of what color I want to make my walls at this moment...all I know is that one wall is going to be "chevron" patterned as my accent wall. Excited about that. I will check back with more photos soon. Thanks for reading!!!