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Renovation

By Andy on 8 March 2007 terribly early
Category: Family

When we began looking at houses in Georgia, we weren’t too thrilled about having to live in a house that was older than we were. We lived in a new house in Texas, and so there weren’t many things to fix. But to in order to live close to where I work, we had to settle for a more “mature” house.

From the moment we first walked through it, we saw plenty we wanted to change cosmetically, and the home inspection report also gave us a long list of repairs that were a necessity. I regret that we didn’t take more before pictures. We were honestly surprised with how nice it actually turned out.

To give you an idea, you can take a look at all the things that the home inspector told us we needed to do.

Besides that list, there were also the things we wanted to do:

  1. Paint almost everything
  2. New windows and shutters
  3. New carpet and molding in the den
  4. New chandeliers and ceiling fans
  5. Reface kitchen cabinets
  6. Replace a sliding door with French doors
  7. Renovate bathrooms
  8. Decorations

We still have not done #7, and #8 is an ongoing project that will probably never end.

You might get the impression that we’ve gone remodeling crazy. We have been busy. In fact, we could probably make a lot of money if we decided to flip the house, but we really did this because we wanted to enjoy the house we live in. We plan on being here a long, long time. Only God knows how long. But through it all, I think we’ve kept the perspective that it doesn’t matter how beautiful your house is, if you don’t have a happy home, then what good is it? You won’t be happy.

See pictures of our renovations – Click that link and then click on House Renovations (Early 2007).

  1. I LOVE what you guys have done to your house! It really does look like it could have been from an episode of “Flip This House”.

    — Kaye    Mar 8, 08:22 AM    #

  2. Everything looks so nice!!

    It feels so good when you do things like this doesn’t it?

    — Susan    Mar 9, 10:18 AM    #

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