we bought a house – Page 7 – emerald city diaries

pictures of our new abode.

finally! {that is what you are thinking, right?}

i thought it would be nice to have an on-going record of the state of the house {especially since projects have happened, or are happening as we speak!} for blog readers, but also for posterity. i will likely be posting about individual projects, but i will also be uploading pictures (likely after more major projects) to the House Tour page, so be sure to check there for picture updates!

i uploaded some pictures of the house that we took during a walk-thru with the seller & the evening that we closed, so the house is nice & clean & empty! {sidenote: there are many, many things that we would like to change/update, but those things take time & money, so we all have to be patient, myself included! we do love the overall character of the house & any update just adds to its charm!}

if you are interested in seeing pictures of the house, {c’mon, you know you’ve been dying to see it!} then scroll up to the top of the webpage & click on the House Tour page.

{where the new House Tour page will live.}

did we pick a good one? thoughts?

my weekend in pictures: moving edition.

{boxes ready to move!}

{the desk at the escrow office where we signed our names about 67,888 times, approximately.}

{the key to our house!}

{sadie pretty much wants to be near someone (me) all the time. and preferably also touching.}

{uhaul for the move.}

{our rhodie is bloomin’ in the backyard. it is so gorgeous!}

{sadie staking out her yard.}

{happy, happy birthday to my dear friend sascha! sorry we couldn’t stay for karaoke & dancing.}

{thanks dave for expertly packing our uhaul!}

{first dinner at the new house was chicken mole at the local mexican restaurant.}

{we lost some of the bed hardware during the move & “camped out” on the living room floor with the mattress. aaron & i hated it. sadie LOVED it!}

{one of may boxes we unpacked this weekend!}

{i couldn’t find the coffeemaker, so made coffee with the french press. also, a sneak peak at our awesome kitchen tile.}

{we took our first of many, many trips to lowe’s.}

{unpacked the cookies to put in the cookie jar. you can see where my priorities were when unpacking the kitchen!}

well, after a few trips back & forth to the new house & lots of help from our local family & friends, we are officially in our new house (as of saturday evening!) we want to give a big (huge) shout-out to everyone who stopped by to help: ben & sarah, dave, marcus, andy & hailey, nick & jerry!

the house is still a mess (that’s an understatement, for sure), but i am hoping to post pictures of the (pre-moved into) house sometime this week for all of you that are hankering to finally see it.

how was your weekend?

and we’re homeowners.

we are closing on the house today! hooray!

lots & lots of paperwork, time (and money!) goes into transferring a house from the seller to the buyer. {sidenote: i can’t figure out why we would need so many papers with our signatures!}

but, here we are on the flipside & are starting our journey as homeowners!

{our 1908 craftsman house}

we are moving today & tomorrow (yuck!) but will be posting more pictures soon (in posts & on the blog page aptly named house tour). we have lots of ideas (big & small) for future house projects that we can’t wait to share, but for now, we are still getting used to being homeowners!

any advice on homeownership?

M & A

some big news to share…

{we bought a HOUSE!}

we weren’t planning on buying a house, at least this soon, but i guess that is what happens when start looking at houses…

we are still shocked that we got the house, but so, so excited! we close at the end of the month & have 96,987 things to do before then. wish us luck!

we will be posting lots more on the house once we are in, including a house tour & projects {expect to see a lot of pinspiration projects}, so stay tuned.

have you recently bought a house? do any of you homeowners have any advice to share?

M & A