tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8448484520391545272024-02-18T17:45:51.579-08:00The Hobson HomesteadHaileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05905421433700497263noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-51230968219998200332017-01-04T07:11:00.002-08:002017-01-04T07:11:29.695-08:00Built in Desk in the nook under the stairs<br />
We have four bedrooms in this house. Three of them are currently being used as bedrooms and the other one is being used as a playroom. I hate the idea of having the computer in our bedroom, and don't really love it in the playroom either. The family room was a no-go as well...as was the kitchen, dining, mudroom, etc. Basically the computer could go in this little cubby or.....it would go in one of those rooms mentioned above and I would have hated it.<br />
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Here is our little nook under the stairs. Look at it. It's just screaming at me to do a built in of some sort. I found a bunch of idea on pinterest about built in desks, my favorite is found here....<br />
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I followed what her husband did KIND OF... I modified it to be a little simpler, and used different materials.</div>
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Here's what I did:</div>
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I knew I wanted the desk top to appear floating. I also wanted the computer modem and cords off of the floor, so I knew I needed a shelf underneath. I started those by building the braces. You'll have to measure your own space to know how high/low to place the braces, just make sure you screw the wood into studs. I used 2x3 lumber here.</div>
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For the desktop brace I cut two pieces at 45 degree angles on each end and placed them in the corners to add additional support. I'm glad I did this. The desktop was heavy!!</div>
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For the desktop I used a Laminate Kitchen Countertop from Lowes. I bought a 4' length, it was around $60. I could have used a wooden desktop, but honestly, I wanted something that I thought would look nicer and would hold up better. I did have to cut the countertop shorter (my width here is about 3') and let me tell you.. THAT WAS STRESSFUL. I don't usually get anxiety when working on a project, but I did have it that time!! If I messed up I would be out $60!! Plus I'd have to buy a new counter. NOT AN OPTION.</div>
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After cutting the countertop to size (and making tiny adjustment cuts) I laid the countertop on the brace and screwed it in from underneath. Make sure your screws are short enough that they don't come out the top of the counter. Repeat the process for the shelf underneath.</div>
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Here's a nice closeup of the desktop...</div>
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After those were screwed in (you could probably do this step before too) I painted the braces the same color as the wall so they would disappear.</div>
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I also caulked around the edge of the top so I could hide any gaps from my imperfect cutting. </div>
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Guys, seriously, caulk is my best friend these days.</div>
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After that it was finishing touches. I drilled a hole in the back left corner so I could put the computer cords through it. </div>
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You can obviously still see that one pesky little cord running over the front of the desk... I need to get a bigger drill bit to make the hole for the computer cords larger. All but one of my cords can fit through it. So when I get around to that, I'll give you an update! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-89780040508367522982016-11-05T07:57:00.001-07:002016-11-05T07:57:18.069-07:00Max's Room - Tour #1M&M's rooms are saving my sanity right now. They are so clean and pretty and NOT FIREBALL ORANGE LIKE THE REST OF MY HOUSE. The rest of my house is giving me some anxiety but I am enjoying the fact that at least two rooms in this house are mostly done...<br />
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Here's a quick look at Max's room right now... But before you get the good stuff, you have to suffer through a reminder of what it was....<br />
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It really is amazing the difference that some paint makes!! This feels like it's in a completely different house!!!<br />
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Now to do something about the drop ceilings....<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-62143030965797446102016-11-05T07:45:00.002-07:002016-11-05T08:00:15.622-07:00How to Build a Headboard with built-in Floating NightstandsWhew. That's a mouthful. For Max's room, since I didn't put trim around his room, I still wanted to have a cool accent or feature. Initially I wanted to cover one whole wall with wood to have a really beautiful accent wall, but I quickly let that dream die... or rather change into this headboard idea...<br />
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Here's is what his room looks like all painted with his bed in there...</div>
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It looks fine.. it's just nothing special... I really wanted something more substantial and I really want to throw those side tables IN THE TRASH. I made them lots of years ago, and they have truly seen better days...</div>
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Here's what his room looks like now...</div>
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I still need to stain the headboard and the nightstands a nice warm, dark brown... but this is much better!! I also swapped out that quilt on his bed for something more neutral...</div>
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Here's how I got to this point...</div>
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First, I measured how large I wanted the headboard to be. It came to be about 60" tall. I knew I wanted it to extend all the way to the baseboard, and I knew I wanted it attached to the wall. I figured since 60" was a good height because that meant I could buy five 12" boards and simplify my life. </div>
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Now, my children have queen sized beds... it's ridiculous I know, but to be fair, where we live, it was cheaper for us to buy a queen size bed than it was to buy them twins... I have no idea, that's just how it worked out.</div>
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Anywho, this is a queen size bed, and I knew I wanted the night stands attached to the headboard so I needed it to be wider than the bed. I figured that 8 feet would be a good width. That also meant that I could get away with buying 1x12x8 boards. Again, simplifying the project.</div>
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I don't have a lot of pictures of this process... I forgot.. Boo.</div>
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But I found the center of the wall and started attaching the boards. There are some electrical sockets on this wall that I need to make sure were uncovered. It was easy because they came to the edge of the bottom board. I just measured where they went, and then cut out the rectangles with my jigsaw. See below...</div>
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Here's how it should fit after you cut out the rectangle. Hopefully you did better than me and you don't have one wobbly line. Stupid saw.<br />
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I made sure to screw the wood into studs so that it would be super secure and wouldn't fall on my little toddler during the night...<br />
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I put lots of screws in each board and then added a simple corner molding so that you couldn't see the raw edge of my 1x12x8 boards...<br />
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I cut the corners of the molding to 45 degrees... so that it would look nice and pretty!<br />
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I nailed on that trim with an old fashioned hammer and nails. If I had an air compressor and a nail gun, I would have used that... but I don't, so I didn't. This worked just fine.<br />
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It looked like this when I was done with that part...<br />
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It stayed like that for a couple days until I made it back to Lowe's to grab the rest of the stuff I needed.<br />
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Now... the floating nightstands are SUPER easy. I picked up a pine stair tread (weird, I know - the worker at Lowe's thought so too), and 4 metal decorative shelving brackets.<br />
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Let me explain the stair tread.... the front of stair treads are rounded.. plus the color of the wood matched the wood I had already bought for the rest of the headboard. Those are the only two reasons why I bought it. Well, those and the fact that it was cheap.<br />
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I measured from the sides how wide I could make my nightstand shelf and still have room for the bed to fit in the middle with some extra space between the nightstand and the bed. I don't want anybody rolling over and hitting their head on the nightstand.<br />
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I cut down the stair tread, attached the brackets and then attached it to the headboard at the right height. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.<br />
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It probably looks more complicated than it actually was...<br />
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See the nice rounded front??<br />
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I also decided that since lamps were probably going to be sitting on these nightstands, I wanted to cut a hole so that the cord could go through the nightstand....<br />
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I just used my drill and a drill bit made for drilling holes and I drilled a hole. How many times can I say drill in one sentence??<br />
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That's basically it! Easier than it looks! I think I want to put some cute wire baskets under the nightstands too... but that means I have to go to a store and find them... which means I need to go out of town because I live in the middle-of-nowhere-Maine where there are not stores besides Lowe's and Walmart :)<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-36869647591684135132016-11-05T07:14:00.002-07:002016-11-05T07:14:52.561-07:00Maila's Room - Tour #1I realize that I have basically ONLY posted about M&M's rooms... but to be fair, they are the ONLY rooms in the house that have been painted and have some pictures hanging....<br />
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Here's a little tour of where in are in Maila's room... but before we get to the good stuff, let me remind you of where we came from...<br />
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There are some adorable details too...<br />
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The rug. OH THAT RUG. I found it on Rugs USA and it's serioiusly my favorite in the history of EVER!!! It looks brown in the photo below, but it's much greyer in real life...<br />
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Replaced the hardware on the door with this beautiful handle...<br />
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Finally I gave her some of my dolls from when I was a little baby...<br />
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I love her room so much!! There are still things I need/want to do in there.. I want to change out some of the pictures that are in the frames and I want to buy/make a gray tufted winged-back headboard for her bed.... that's why the glitter name sign is hung so high..<br />
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I also want to get her some pretty matching lamps for her little tables.. but all in all. I love this room!! It's probably my favorite!!<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-56596577586159201272016-10-26T06:52:00.000-07:002016-11-05T06:52:58.885-07:00Max's Bedroom - Baseboard Heater CoversI did this in Maila's room....<br />
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And I thought it was only fair that Max's room get the same treatment!!<br />
These are just some pictured updates... let me know if you guys want a full in-depth tutorial on how to make wooden baseboard heater covers!<br />
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Above is a reminder shot of his beautiful metal baseboard covers.... (also the pretty paint job)<br />
Below is the progress shot.... MUCH BETTER!!<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-48633208801474145182016-10-24T06:47:00.000-07:002016-11-05T06:47:25.482-07:00How to get paint off of Laminate FloorsGuys, there's been a lot of painting going on at my house. And I have a lot of toddlers. Well, ok. I don't have A LOT of toddlers, but I have two. SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE A LOT OK??!<br />
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So maybe one of them walked around in her shoes and maybe she got paint all over the floor because maybe I had taken out the plastic cover because it was bothering me ok?? So MAYBE THIS IS ALL MY FAULT!!<br />
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Let's not lay the blame out on who done it... let's just fix it.<br />
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Ok. So just imagine these little white paint spots ALL OVER EVERYWHERE. I do count my blessings though that at least it's not carpet in the basement!!<br />
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The solution to my problems was 100% Acetone. I first tested it in a corner of the closet to make sure that it wouldn't hurt the finish on my floors. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK!! After that, I got a little rag, poured some acetone on the rag and then got to scrubbing the floors. It worked like a charm!!<br />
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Above is the after.. MUCH BETTER!! Now excuse me while I do this in 3 rooms....<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-50485956351777096372016-10-22T06:37:00.000-07:002016-11-05T06:37:54.567-07:00Max's Room - Getting rid of that HORRIFIC paint job!Ugh. Guys. I love color. Really, I can handle it, I promise... but Max's room was just so out of control. That nasty paint job had to go before we moved in!!!<br />
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Here's a reminder of what it looked like...<br />
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My favorite/most hated part of the room are the blue and green cirlces that make the transition from yellow to purple less horrible.<br />
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First things first... these colors required TWO coats of primer and TWO coats of paint!!<br />
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Ahh.. now breath a sigh of relief! Doesn't it look so much better???<br />
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Hailey<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-38013167694892048882016-10-19T06:28:00.000-07:002016-11-05T06:29:21.697-07:00Maila's Room - Building the Board & BattenOk. This is probably my favorite room in the house so far!! This was definitely a labor of love. And Maila is only 4 so she probably doesn't appreciate how much work I put into this project, but let's be real... while I want Maila to love this room... I also want to love it. Enter BOARD & BATTEN.<br />
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When we last saw eachother, Maila's room looked something like this...<br />
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I had just added the chair rail around the span on the room...<br />
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NOW it looks like this....<br />
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Oh my goodness.. It's so pretty and such a difference!! Let me know you how I got there!!<br />
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After adding the horizontal chair rail around the entire perimeter of the room... I hopped on over to Lowes and picked up some 1x2 pieces of primed MDF..... (the material I used to the chair rail was a 1x3 primed MDF)<br />
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Since I knew I was already going to be painting all of the trim I was planning to put into the room, I wanted to save myself some time and get something already primed.<br />
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I measured from the top of the baseboard to the bottom of the chair rail, cut the board to the right size and screwed them into the wall... it looked a little like this...<br />
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I ran into a couple of problems while I was doing this throughout the room. So let me help you so if you decide to do this, you won't run into problems too...<br />
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The MDF is wider than my baseboard. But I didn't want to have to take out my baseboards, but I didn't want the MDF sticking out awkwardly over the baseboard. My solution was the cut the bottom part of the vertical slats, where they meet the baseboard, at a 45 degree angle so they would kind of give the illusion that they were the same width as the baseboards....<br />
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I know that's confusing.. here's a picture!<br />
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Above is showing you the 45 degree angled cut on the bottom of the MDF... Below is what it looks like on the wall...<br />
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Yes, yes, I could have bought some slimmer trim to do the vertical slats with, but I wanted them to have some weight and add some depth to the room. So this is why I chose this option.<br />
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The other problem I ran into was that I ran out of enough MDF to do every single vertical slat in one piece. See below....<br />
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It was a simple solution... I just took left over MDF, measured it to size, cut it, and then installed it.<br />
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Here is what it looked like after. Nothing a little spackle, wood filler, and caulk can't hide!!<br />
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Here's what it looked like installed throughout the room before it was painted....<br />
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I did have to pay attention to where the sockets went in the room. Whenever I went to install the vertical trim and there was a socket, I had to be sure that I could put the cover on the socket and not have the trim in the way. It wasn't hard, just meant that some boards had to be moved over slightly.<br />
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Yesterday the kids woke up early so I decided to take advantage of it and get some work done. I loaded up our van with some things from our rental and headed over. We got there around 8:20 AM and I did not get home until 12:45 AM... Yes you read that right... I spent 16 ish hours at the house working. I am SO TIRED!!! But I got so much done!!<br />
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Here's what it looked like before I spent 16 hours in one day ripping it apart...<br />
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And here is what it looked like when I left at 12:45 AM...<br />
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- 2 coats of Primer<br />
- 2 coats of Pink Paint on the top half of the wall<br />
- Chair rail wood cut and installed (I used pre-primed MDF)<br />
- Old metal baseboards removed, cleaned, and replaced with custom wooden baseboard heater covers that I MADE!! Woo!<br />
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Kyle is a little concerned about the efficiency of wooden covers on baseboard heaters... but I think I may line the back with some aluminum strips to help them be more efficient. I HATE HATE HATE the look of baseboard heaters in general but the metal covers are especially gross. I LOVE how this wooden cover looks! Like LOVE it! I made it study enough that little feet can stand on it too to see out of the window! </div>
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It looks so much better, and to be honest - I'm super proud of myself that I was able to complete so much today!! Lucky for me I had lots of help - my sweet friend came over and brought her kids so that they could keep my kids occupied and she helped me paint! And I'd like to give a special thanks to my new compound miter saw for keeping me company on that long lonely night!</div>
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There is still lots to do in this room.. I need to finish installing the board and batten on the walls, caulk everything so it looks more professional, paint the lower half of the wall, the trim, and the baseboard heater cover. I also need to paint the two columns in this room. Also - I'm not sure if you noticed or not but there is no paint on the very top of the wall.. that is where hopefully the crown molding will go!</div>
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So much to do... and we are moving into this house in less than three weeks!!! AHH!</div>
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Climbing vines look SUPER gorgeous on some houses, but on this one, they just didn't work. They had grown a little wild and were in between the deck boards and the siding on the house. That is when you know they have to go!!<br />
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My husband ripped it all off while I was inside taking pictures of the house (he could NOT wait), so I only got this picture of him taking off the very last bit..<br />
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The vines had grown up the utility box thing that sits on that side of the house. They were intertwined with the wires so we had to be super careful not to cut or pull out the wires! Always make sure you keep in mind the wires when cutting down anything outside!!<br />
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After all the vines were gone, a good powerwash was in order to freshen up the boards and clean up the side of the house!!<br />
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See how filthy those boards were??? These steps were totally covered with vines!! We continued on to the sides of the deck and the exterior of the house...<br />
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HaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-33252128778128078562016-10-08T20:53:00.002-07:002016-10-08T20:53:21.630-07:00OUR FIRST HOUSE!I may have peed my pants a little from all the excitement/holy-cow-now-we-are-grown-ups feelings that I got when I walked into OUR house today! And then I may have peed a little from the holy-cow-there-is-so-much-to-do feelings that soon followed. Either way, I'm putting on my big girl panties and digging right in! We did a lot of work in that little house today, but first... I'm going to show you what it looked like on the day we closed!!<br />
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This house was listed on Zillow.. but only with like 12 pictures, and I don't know what genius thought that would be enough for this nosy house watcher. So here, I present, more than 12 pictures for your viewing pleasure!<br />
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Complete with the most beautiful Thomas Kinkade-ish border wallpaper you EVER did see,</div>
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and these lovely red brick-ish tiles on the floor.</div>
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Just a second. THEY CUT A HOLE IN THE HOUSE.</div>
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It ALSO has a cool fireball orange pantry door because WHY NOT??</div>
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And this cool light pot-hangy-thing... which they hung too low.</div>
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So many cool things.</div>
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It's pretty straight forward. Nothing special.</div>
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Ok. I did get impatient and put some primer on the wall. But it was only a little bit.</div>
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And I can't wait to get this color out of the family room!!</div>
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Pretty straightforward, pretty boring. It's also fireball orange.</div>
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Can you see all the different, soothing blue colors in this bathroom?</div>
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*relaxing*</div>
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(did you notice that the bathroom closet doors are also blue!! YAY!!)</div>
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I see lots. Like 6. Which is 5 too many.</div>
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That's creativity at work, people!!</div>
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I'm also glad that the fireball orange made it to another room.</div>
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PLUS, NO FIRE ORANGE!</div>
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Double YAY!</div>
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Super simple, but is also has a blue closet door!!!</div>
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#blessed</div>
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But she painted the whole staircase and landing BROWN.</div>
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as you can tell. She decided it was a bad idea at the end.</div>
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But the bottom left picture is a cute nook I can't wait to turn into an even cuter nook!!!</div>
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This is another BIG ROOM!!</div>
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I'm so glad that we have such big basement rooms!</div>
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This room also has lots of amazing colors that I can't wait to get rid of....</div>
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Make sure you notice the cool blue and green circles which make the transition</div>
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from purple to yellow much more appealing!!</div>
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The last room in the house is arguably the most important...</div>
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(but not in a snobby way....)</div>
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Well, that concludes this little house tour... I know it was super long winded and full of amazing colors....but before you rush off to copy all of our cool colors, just remember, don't.</div>
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But in all seriousness, these colors would be fine.... somewhere... else. But in my own house, where I can do WHATEVER I want.... nope. They are going! The sooner the better.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11618698007847624812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-844848452039154527.post-63919665262319235322016-10-05T06:13:00.003-07:002016-10-05T07:08:55.992-07:00Buying a house, our FIRST house!Buying a house is a pretty fun process, but it can also basically turn you into a lunatic. A stressed, lunatic.With crazy eyes...SO, in an effort to spare your spouse, or your kids from having to see you like that, here are some things you should know BEFORE trying to buy a house:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><u>THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE BUYING A HOUSE:</u></span></div>
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1. MAKE SURE YOU ARE <u>REALLY</u> GOING TO QUALIFY FOR A LOAN</div>
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When my husband and I first went to the bank, we got prequalified for a home loan, no problem. We gave them all our employment information, our bank accounts and information and went on our merry way. Fast forward to about 30 houses and a couple months later, we were all settled on a home, under contract, and everything was rosy. OR SO WE THOUGHT. 1 week. Let me repeat, 1 WEEK before our closing date on our first home, the bank calls us in to let us know that they can't give us a loan anymore. 1 WEEK. </div>
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Turns out, if you are self-employed (which my husband is) you have to have 2 YEARS of self employment history in order to be able to qualify for a home loan. Well, we didn't have 2 years of self employment history so we did not qualify for a home loan. BUT, how did the bank miss that or neglect to tell us??!! Total negligence on their part. Lucky for us, we found a credit union that was willing to work with us, and it all got worked out. </div>
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Moral of the story - They are the professionals and SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT. I don't know how they missed it, but they did. They almost cost us the house. BUT my point is that we should have been aware of that law!! So DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE! You can't leave everything up to the professionals because sometimes, even they miss it. </div>
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2. MAKE SURE YOUR REALTOR IS ON <u>YOUR</u> SIDE</div>
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We moved to a small town. Like, REALLY small. I'm talking under 10,000 people. In small towns like that everybody knows EVERYBODY. Shop around for a realtor, ask lots of people who they used and why... The realtor we ended up working with came highly recommended. One of the most important things we wanted was to be sure that she would fight for us. Because in a small town, where everybody is friends with everybody, you want someone that will stick up for the new people and not try to swindle us out of a couple bucks.</div>
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When we were negotiating, there were some things that we really wanted. We would pass the message onto our realtor and she fought for us until we got exactly what we wanted. She was excellent and totally saved our first-time-home-buying-lives. </div>
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3. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE CASH FOR UNEXPECTED COSTS!</div>
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Initially, when we were working with our first bank, they had given us the rough estimate of the "cash for closing". It includes the down payment (which we were going to do 3%) and the closing costs. Which includes realtor fees, attorney fees, title fees, taxes, etc. We had enough cash for that and all was well.<br />
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When that bank decided to suck, and we moved onto the second bank... they had a different idea of how much "cash for closing" we would need. They wanted a 10% down payment and almost 4 times more cash for closing. Luckily we had enough to cover it, but it was much more than we were planning for.. There are lots of hidden fees in closing costs - appraisals, inspections, and the above list. They can add up really quickly, so make sure you have enough cash to cover more than the down payment.<br />
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4. DON'T BUY MORE HOUSE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD</div>
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This may seem like a no-brainer, but sometimes it's hard to follow. Just because a bank says that you can afford a house that is $$$ expensive doesn't mean that you ACTUALLY CAN. My husband is a good numbers guy, so when we got down to the nitty gritty of monthly payments, we found that the best price range for us was less than half of what we technically qualified for.<br />
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Keep in mind that the more expensive the house, the more cash for closing.<br />
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I know that some of these are no brainers, but it's all sound advice... from a stressed lunatic. But I give it to you in love, so that you don't become a stressed lunatic.<br />
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Happy House Hunting!<br />
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Hailey</div>
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