our house: pre-ownership

alright.

people have been asking for pics of our new house. i figured we'd start with what it looked like before we bought it. these pics were taken while we were waiting to close, so before the old owners started moving out. this is what they lived like. this is the state they lived in. for YEARS AND YEARS.

**WARNING: it's gross. maybe even a little bit scary.
(i won't make the pics too big haha)

to make things even better, this pics don't even show you how really really DIRTY it is. i mean, you can obviously see these people were hoarders and the house was just full of everything and anything, but when everything was taken out and we walked in the first time after closing, it really set in how so totally gross and dirty it is. years and years of dirt and dust and grease and grime and cat urine (possibly people urine, too, who knows!) and who knows what else built up on the walls and floors. yup. gross.

now, i know some many of you are wondering why in the world we wanted to buy this house. sometimes when i'm in there scrubbing walls or crawling under the floors in the crawl space (EWWWW!!!!), i wonder the same thing. but we just felt right about it.

what else can i say?

it's coming along. we started demo exactly 2 weeks ago, and we're definitely moving in the right direction. veery sloooowly. but we are moving forward! we cannot WAIT to get things finished so we can actually live in our house that we're paying for :) the rest of the pics of the demo are all on my phone, which i have yet to transfer onto the computer. it's probably better to break up all this house craziness into different posts anyway!