our house: playing catch-up

playing catch-up = MAJOR picture overload.

oh man. what a few weeks we've had. i'm officially exhausted! and so is Jae. i'm about to go to bed, but i want to post a few more pics of what we've been spending all our extra time doing:

DEMO!!

ugh. i hate demo. it's so over-rated.

but anyway! this won't be very well put together, but here are a jumble of pics from the last 3 weeks.

after all the 'stuff' was out (aka what we had to work with in the beginning):
*pics taken by my phone. yep, still can't find the camera. so please excuse the crapiness*

front/living room.
yes, that wallpaper is like felt-y, fuzzy

front door

dining room

just to give you an idea how horribly disgusting the carpet was

kitchen. metal cupboards. stylish. and holy HEAVY.

other half of said stylish kitchen

teeny tiny half bath

bedroom. panelling & wallpaper were clearly staples in these people's decor.

yes, that's fake brick and carpet in the bathroom. win win eh!

no, there wasn't a fire. it's just dirt.
and who knows what else. comforting isn't it?

dining room. linoleum and glass squares. on the wall.

you're seeing correctly. that's a camera in our hallway!

this might possibly have been the best find in our whole house.
we named him 'el matador'. he used to reside on the wall inside the shower, just above the tub.
he's now in shambles somewhere. probably the dump. classy!

said tub. eek.

are you ready for one of the worstest, most horriblest, most disgusting parts of the whole house??

yup. that's it. the toilet in the carpet-covered bathroom. saved the best for last. YOU'RE WELCOME :)

now some more picture overload with everything we've been doing since the above photos...

hardwood under all that nasty carpet!

no, someone didn't die in here. we think.

Jordan! our best helper ever.
thank you again Jord!

more panelling and wallpaper coming down

glass pieces. really loud when they shatter on the ground.

gold felt wallpaper gone! hallelujah.

our pile of crap building in the yard pre-dumpster arrival

this big roll of carpet was half grown into the ground in front of the house.
we didn't even notice it for like a week! see pic below..

yep. that's where the carpet was grown into the ground. weird.

dumpster arrived! YAY

kitchen coming down

the neighbor's backhoe assisted in taking out the chain-link fence.
pays to live in west bountiful :)

oh no big deal. just a big hole in the floor where the kitchen sink was.

backhoe pulled out a big, prickly sticky bush for us

first hits to the kitchen wall!
(it's all out now)

remember that carpeted bathroom?? here she is now!

laundry area all wall-less

we decided taking out the entire kitchen floor would be best instead of just a piece.
Jae was glad to have an excuse to buy a sawzall!

phew. that was a lot. are you sick of it yet? cuz we sure are!!!

haha.

more pics to come soon.

hopefully.

Maine reunion, pt. 2

a month later...(well, almost)

i'm finally going to post a few more pics from the rest of our trip to Maine. i know probably most of you don't really care to see these, but for my blogging/journaling purposes, i'm posting them anyway!

Jae & Liam

we love this boy!

making cookies with grandma - their favorite person in the world

Jae's lobster roll



my turkey, pepper, something else sandwich. only took an hour to get our food!



ice cream shop. reeeally excited!

Jae's pecan parfait and my chocolate cookie dough shake. uhhh. heaven.

our master griller!

well, that about sums up our trip in a nutshell! beach, grilling, naps, painting nails with the little girls, looots of food, family, games, pictures. ahhh. until next time, new england.

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!