House Update!

Jeff and I went on our honeymoon to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, and all week long we were excitedly anticipating carpet being installed in our house. We came home and it was beautiful!

The day after we got home we had the family over to open wedding gifts with us. Everyone was so generous!
Lastly for this post, Mom came over and I helped her lay the new linoleum in the entryway. It looks so much better now!

The Transformation

Here are some pictures of our house. It closed around June 10, and we've been working nonstop! We met some of the neighbors last night, and they were telling us about the previous owners. We are only the second owners. While they had taken great care of the house, it was all the original carpet, light fixtures, wallpaper and so on.

Okay - now to the pictures! Most of the work in the pictures involves ripping out the carpet and scraping wallpaper. The wallpaper was terrible to remove. We will never, ever, put wallpaper in a home!

From the outside, with all the carpet in the truck:
Here's the living room:
The wallpaper was finally ripped out, and we got to prime the living room and pick paint colors. We chose the upper right color:
Painting has started!The kitchen and dining area before work started...
...and after work started:
And some fun momentos from the kitchen that were quickly removed!The hallway before any work (well, without the light fixture): The hallway with wallpaper beginning to be removed:The hallway primed for paint! The hallway painted, and the ceiling too! And some views of the backyard:That's it for now. I'll post more when we make more progress. Carpet will be installed in the next two weeks!