Okay, so you might think I am crazy. You might not understand. But I find my happiness on the water. I have decided that much like “dog people” “water people” just understand. So I understand that some of you may not understand that my heart just pitter patters and jumps with joy at the idea of my favorite word. Lake. Ohhhh yes that is my word. That is where I find my complete and utter happiness. Now I want you to know that my favorite word has made my house shopping quite complicated. Because you see, house shopping on “water” is different…. you are limited…. I have started debating things like lake water quality more than ever before. And water quality determines one {maybe} two lakes in your area if you are really lucky like my husband and I were. And once you decide which lake you would like to live on, if you are like me, you find out that lake homes are priced WELL above normal homes. Perhaps you could afford a “nice” house off of the water, but on the water…. well WATCH OUT! because you can be sure the quality of home in your price range is NOT going to be even close to the same quality… butttt if you are like me again, then you will try to picture your perfect house NOT on the water and then the imperfect house on the water and not even have to debate which to choose, because the water is where you would want to be….
no thinking, no debating, no choice in the matter, give me a lake view and I will choose a fix-er upper at a mid range price over a palace anywhere else…. soooo this gives you a GREAT idea of where my husband and I ended up with our home shopping.
I am excited and a little nervous to show you the before BEFORE photos….
These are the photos of THE HOUSE, as we saw it during our tours.
{yes we were those buyers—I think we spent 3 separate nights just walking through this place}
This is the house as I picture it NOW, the move in date is May 11th and until then I stare at these photos and dream of what I would like to do. The DIY-er in me is SCREAMING in excitement with the ideas….oooohhhh the ideas and potential that I see in this home!!! I KNOW this house is going to be my dream house…. just give me a few months….or maybe more realistically years?!?! I will have it JUST like I would like it and in the mean time I will wake up each morning and enjoy the sunrise while drinking my coffee and think…. this is it… this is my word, this is my happy, this is my love…. lake living makes it worth it…. and the DIY-er in me makes me excited and happy to take on the challenge….
So here is the question–
won’t you join me and read How to Start a Craft Business?
Because EACH and EVERY room of this house needs to be RE-DONE with a crafty scrappy happy touch…. and oooohhhh will it happen. Andddd WOWOOOWW will this fix-er upper become my dream first home!!! I just know it!
{project numero uno…. the ONLY functional bathroom in the house {as of right now}…needs a facelift and fast!!! Yessss this is project numero uno for me}
Project number TWO— kitchen, yes, the kitchen will get a TEMPORARY Re-VAMP until I save up and can afford a ROOM takeover makeover to get my dream kitchen…. but the good news?! The space is THERE….. and the space is perfect…. soooo all I need to do is dream and save… and ooohhh I can do that!
Living room…. lets get rid of those walls… shall we?! Ohhh yes that will be happening… {hopefullly} even before we move in…. (famous last words right?!?!) buttttt we will try…. we have a 2 and 1/2 week window to “work” on the house prior to moving in… and the walls are coming down if I have anything to say about it!!!
Which will be quickly followed by a REAL fireplace renovation! Ohhh but my husband thinks he will enjoy the wood burner until it is gone…. (I say fine as long as he doesn’t get too attached!!!)
and this is my future first floor bedroom craft room….
{ugghhh there is wall paper under those red walls that needs to be taken down NOW}
Ohhh and then there is this perfect laundry room just waiting for a makeover…. ooohhhh this one will be so so simple…!!! I can picture it all perfectly and I can hardly wait!!!
Lets see and did I mention that there is wall paper under almost every painted wall…. I am seriously considering just putting up new walls and skipping the whole wallpaper peeling part of things…Let me know if you have any other ideas!!!
Anddddd this is where I will end the tour tonight—-this is ONLY the first floor…. there is still a whole other floor full of projects and work that I will show you later
AND a potentially dreamy 3 seasons porch….. that will come in a following post too!
Sooooo what do you think? Are you overwhelmed yet? Do you see the potential?