I'm buying a house!

I have lived in my current apartment for 3 years now. It's not in the worst neighborhood by any means. However, no matter where you live, if you're renting an apartment, you WILL have some trashy people living near you. People are so rude sometimes. The family that currently lives across the hall from me has a couple kids. That's fine. Except I have no idea how many children they actually have because it seems like there are at least 5 children going in and out of this apartment like 20 times a day. Keep in mind that this is a 2 bedroom apartment so there's no way all these people actually live there. Anyway, we live on the second floor and the stairs go along the other side of the wall as my apartment so when the boys RUN and STOMP as loud as humanly possible up and down the stairs every single day, I get headaches. They seriously have to try to be that loud. The people that live below us frequently play some racing video game and of course they have to play it INCREDIBLY loud. Again, headache.

Needless to say, I am so ready to be living in a real house! This also means that I'll be posting as many things as possible about redoing our house! I already have so many ideas. Let me share some of my awesome ideas with you! The following pictures are ones that were posted on the internet while we were looking for houses.


This is going to be the guest bedroom. It's pretty small, but we'll make it work. My idea with this room is to decorate it with all of our souvenirs from the many travels we've been on.

This will be my son's room. Clearly we're going to paint it a different color. Purple doesn't exactly scream BOY! (which is totally weird because apparently two boys slept in this room.)

It has pretty good curb appeal, huh? We did have a small issue with the roof that was discovered during the inspection, but they fixed it so now it's all good! Always take your inspection seriously!

This is the basement. It is a seriously huge room. I don't know what we're going to do with this space yet, but my husband has some ideas. He wants to add a bar. We'll definitely put our dartboard here, but other than that, it'll probably have some comfortable seating and a big TV.

My husband wants to finish off this area in the basement. Right now it's just stacked cement block walls and a cement slab floor. It could potentially be my office and photography studio. Then, when we sell, it can be considered a bedroom.

Right now, this half bath in the basement is super plain. I want to add some kind of cool painting technique and add some shelves for storage.

This is the living room upstairs. It's not huge, but if it's more than just our little family, we'll go to the basement so I want to make this area very comfortable. I just imagine us spending nights watching some TV or something.

The deck area is very nice. It's right off of the kitchen/dine-in area and it looks over the entire back/side yard. It even has a gate already so that our son can't go down the stairs. He actually just had his 3rd birthday party this past weekend. My parents bought him a picnic table. I hope it fits nicely on our deck.

This is the play equipment that they're leaving behind. My son is super excited to play on it!

This is the eat-in kitchen area. My husband and I were thinking about putting a built-in bench underneath the window on the left. This can also double as a storage area. The bench can flip up and we can keep things for the deck and games in there. Then we'll have a table and chairs to go with it.

There isn't a whole lot that we NEED to do to the kitchen, but there are a few things that we WANT to do. My husband wants to replace all the appliances. If we do, we'll probably get black ones. The kitchen is a little white for my taste. Also, we need to replace the hardware on the cabinets. I'll have to post a close-up picture of them later. They look like vines with leaves at the end. That's just not my taste.

I actually kind of like the bathroom for now. Our current shower curtain is brown with green circles on it so the color scheme is working for me. I'm sure that I'll eventually change everything.

and this will be my bedroom. Clearly we won't have our bed like that. That's just weird. Also, we need to paint. Seriously. This bedroom has the most boring color on the wall. It could definitely use a change.

Hopefully, I can show you all the amazing changes that we'll do to this house! I can't wait until it really feels like home. We close on April 12th. That is a mere 24 days away!