Well my life has been going forward very nicely. I have bought the house that I was writing about. For the last two months I have been remodeling and moving into my new house. I has been an amazing journey. A very stressful and testing journey. I didn't know how good of a person I would be doing everything, but I can stand tall today and say I did this.
The house that I bought was an "as is" needing work done to it house. That put the house in my price range. I took out an extra 5, 000 loan and went to work on the house. I pulled 2 rooms and a stairway of old 70's carpet. This opened up the hardwood floors. I love hardwood floors. Cindy worked on peeling 3 rooms of old 70's wallpaper. 5 rooms have been re painted. Electrical work has been done. That is one thing I am very proud of, I am not and electrician, but I replaced 6 lights, rewired a plug-in, and never went to the basement to flip a breaker.
I have selected most of the paints in the house. Only have had one glitch in the paints. I believe in supporting local business whenever I can, and so I go to the local lumberyard for everything that I need. They sell Valspar paints. So I went to the Valspar website to pick the right colors that I wanted. Well the Valspar website supports is for Lowes or Home Depot, not the local lumberyard. I wrote down all the color names and numbers so that I can get my paints. But they didn't match with anything my local lumberyard had. So I had to pick the colors all over again right there. I was wanting a light burgundy color, this was for the living room. What I ended up with was a pink, and it was a Pepto pink. When the lights are off it has a wonderful purplish hue to it. When the lights are on, its pink. So I am going to be repainting that in the near future.
The yard was full of troubles. There was the redneck tree fort and the rusty metal shed. Both of them were removed in the first week of buying the property. I have also reopened the back porch. The previous owner put metal siding over a screen porch, it was ugly on the inside. Siding and screen is gone, so there is a back porch that will have a utility purpose.
My garage is still a work in progress. I have removed all the unwanted constructs from inside of the garage. I have to haul off some sheet metal from the garage yet. In a couple weeks my dad and I are going to repair the roof of the garage. Then after I remove some saplings and retrim the garage, I am going to paint it a dark blue.
Through all of this work, I have become a better man. I have learned a little in patience, being colorful, planning everything through, commitment, and so much more. I will be posting pictures will later updates. Stay happy and safe.
