I've been missing…

My hubby and I have been looking at an unfinished house for 3 years. it is in the same town we live in, just bigger. Being a family of four, the single story, 1000 square foot house was getting too small. We entered negotiations last spring with the contractor that owned it. He biult it but was unable to finish it due to illness. his agent called us one day and said the house was going into foreclosure and would be auctioned the next day. we tried to come up with $10,000 dollars for the next day, but couldnt. So, my hubby went to the auction anyway. Turned out the contractor’s lender bought it from himself. They still didn’t want to sell it for what we offered. They told my husband these exact words:
‘I don’t care if it’s two months or two years from now, the price is $239,000’.
They still hadn’t listed it with any agent and didn’t have it posted for sale. So, again in the summer we made an offer. Two months later they verbally agreed. but still we no signed contract with them..until October! At that point we put our little house on the market and finally sold it. We closed on Feb 22 in a snow storm. So then we were free to order everything the new house needed…
Which was just about everything. The house needed a furnace, some plumbing work, the well connected, the sewer connected, some insulation, complete interoir paint work, flooring, a kitchen, bathroomn fixtures, door handles, lighting….

A lot of it we are doing ourselves, a lot we are having contractors do. The furance is in, the toilets are in. The ceiling is painted. The window frames are all patched and spakled and mostly primed and mostly caulked. I have been working endlessly on the trim work. So, thats where I have been…

The flooring starts next week and the kitchen in early april sometime….

Thanks!! It is so totally worth all the work! I can’t wait to live there!

We did get a very good deal. We started at 180k and ended up at 190000. It appraised at 250k unfinished, so we already have equity. The house is a two story dormered cape w/ 1 car garage underneath and a huge sun room off the back. I think it’s just shy of 1900 sq. ft.

I’m really into natural colors (shocked right? 😆 ), the living room and dining room will be a peanut butter shade, the kitchen is a sand color called cracked wheat, the sun room will be a creamy almost yellowy butter shade. Both baths will be antique white and have grey and white tile in them. The kitchen and hall are getting a brown tile and the rest of the downstairs is getting a coffee colored wood laminate. I’m really excited to seee the wood laminate down. We got the kind that is 1 plank per peice, instead of the usual 3 peice per plank look. Upstairs we are doing carpets. Kids are getting a light fog grey and we are getting THE most beautiful green moss color. natalie’s room will ofcourse be pink(her choice, not mine!), while noah’s room will be partially blue and partially Star Wars. Our room will be a color called dried cherval. it’s a nice green, hubby picked it out…

I’ll post some photos tomorrow, the camera is at the house….