Kind of took some folks by surprise with this one...we bought a new house the day before Thanksgiving :) It all happened pretty quickly.
We had been calling on lots of other possible rentals in the past year. We knew we were paying more in rent than we should be and we wanted to get a better deal, so we had been thinking outside the box and calling on houses for sale to see about rental potentials. One such call led us to a realtor who told us about a "zero down" loan. Seemed too good to be true. Long story short, we qualified and ended up pay about $180 to get in our house. We are saving about $300 a month when you compare rent and insurance to mortgage, insurance, and taxes. We like the new house, it's more updated than our other house, and it's closer for Cayle and I to get to school.
We moved in the day after Thanksgiving and jumped right in to decorating for Christmas the following Monday. We've worked hard at balancing getting unpacked and keeping ourselves and the kids sane :) Today is the first day that we are officially able to pull the car in to the garage (just in the nick of time - 0.1-0.2" of ice is due tonight!). We still have some work to do with painting, getting things on the walls, unpacking the garage, and just in general making the house ours, but we are settled and enjoying our new digs.
"Long"-awaited pics...
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| just noticed i cut the peak off... |
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| guest/kids' bathroom |
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| walking out the back door to the garage. garage isn't attached but it's covered from the back door to access the garage. |
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| most of the backyard |
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| cayle's room. the puppies sleep in his room :) |
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| cayle's room |
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| the girls' room |
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| girls' room. the dressers are from IKEA. lindy has decorated them with stickers. thankfully, the stickers are removable :) |
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| view of the dining room and toy room from the kitchen. we've purchased a new light for above the dining room table, just waiting to get it installed. |
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| view of dining room from the front door. that is cayle's tall magnet "museum" he built today. |
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| my handyman husband installed the pan shelf and hangers. |
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| washer and dryer in a small room just behind the kitchen on the way out the back door. |
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| taken from the kitchen, cayle's door has santa on it, girls' door is left of his door, bathroom is on the left just past the counter top |
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| fridge and pantry, taken from same spot as last picture |
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| more kitchen |
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| kitchen, that door leads to the laundry room and then outside |
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| other wall in dining room and toy room |
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| looking to get a different shelf to replace that wire rack. anyone going to IKEA soon??? |
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| living room. |
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| that orange couch folds out to a queen bed! |
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| from living room looking toward tv and toy room |
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| the french doors lead to our bedroom |
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| ignore the clothes on our bed! |
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| master closet |
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| leading out to living room, door on right is to our bathroom |
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| from our bedroom |
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| master bath |
Come visit us soon :)
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