How Nosotros Sold Our Household Inwards A Calendar Week (And The Lastly Household Tour)!

Hey y'all!
I receive got nifty news! The morning time after I wrote lastly week's post, nosotros got an offering on our habitation in addition to it is at nowadays nether contract! Thank you for all of your good wishes in addition to encouragement. I genuinely appreciate it thence much! If you've been next along, you know that things receive got been a picayune crazy, alongside us buying our adjacent fixer upper in addition to selling our electrical flow work solid all inwards exactly a few curt weeks.

After posting this film in addition to announcing our work solid was for sale lastly week, I got a lot of questions.  Several of you asked why nosotros would piece of work thence difficult on this work solid in addition to finally complete it, alone to sell it a twelvemonth later. Well, I never talked nearly whatever of our long term plans on the blog, exactly because I didn't know how things would piece of work out, in addition to also because fifty-fifty though nosotros ever knew nosotros would sell this home, nosotros didn't receive got a strict timeline inwards mind. But, after Ava was born (and after nosotros got through the half-dozen months of colic) in addition to the work solid was finished, it exactly felt similar the correct fourth dimension to displace forrad alongside our plan. 

H5N1 picayune backstory. 

When nosotros starting fourth dimension bought this work solid half-dozen years ago, nosotros knew it wasn't our forever home. It was our starting fourth dimension home. It was the alone habitation nosotros could afford at the time, unless nosotros wanted something a lot smaller alongside no yard. It was lead from the 1970's in addition to totally outdated, but nosotros were able to purchase it for actually cheap. And I hateful REALLY cheap. It had thence much potential in addition to I knew that nosotros could larn far something particular over time, actually bask living inwards it for awhile, in addition to and thence hopefully sell it for a profit. I'm non actually certain why I stance that, equally I had never done whatever sort of renovating before, in addition to I knew goose egg nearly existent estate, but I'm glad I believed inwards us in addition to this house.

There were honestly times over the past times half-dozen years where I felt similar I had bitten off to a greater extent than than I could chew, but nosotros persevered through it in addition to eventually finished what I had envisioned for this habitation all along.

So, before this year, Jesse in addition to I began to experience similar it was fourth dimension to displace on. We began actively looking for our adjacent project, something alongside tons of potential that needed a lot of work. Basically, nosotros were looking for some other fixer upper inwards a unlike expanse of Knoxville, closer to my family. It took us almost half-dozen months of searching, but eventually we ended upwardly finding i inwards our dream location (on five acres!!) in addition to purchased it. As presently equally nosotros had our novel work solid nether contract, nosotros listed our electrical flow work solid for sale. There was at nowadays a lot of involvement inwards our home, in addition to it was a crazy calendar week alongside 2-3 showings a day, in addition to past times the terminate of the week, the work solid was nether contract, for nearly double what nosotros purchased it for half-dozen years ago. So, I know it seems similar a crazy matter to do, to piece of work thence difficult on your habitation alone to sell it, but it exactly made feel for our family, both financially in addition to emotionally, in addition to nosotros are actually excited to displace on to the adjacent chapter of our story. 

Our adjacent fixer upper needs a lot of work. I'll live doing things I've never done before, similar kitchen in addition to bath renovations, in addition to I'm excited. It's belike going to live actually ugly for awhile, in addition to I tin forcefulness out almost guarantee I'm going to screw things upwardly on occasion, but I conception to accept you guys along for the ride. Sometimes that's difficult to practise because people tin forcefulness out live absolutely cruel when you portion the ugly stuff, but screw the trolls, let's exactly bask the journey, ugly in addition to all.  

Moving on alongside the story....I've never shared the outside of our work solid before on the blog, to a greater extent than oft than non for privacy reasons, but we're moving soon, thence feast your eyes on this terror.

I remember this film is from 2010, the twenty-four hours nosotros moved in.

When nosotros starting fourth dimension bought the work solid dorsum inwards 2010, it had been on the marketplace position for over a twelvemonth in addition to had sat inwards foreclosure for years prior to that. So, it belike hadn't been occupied for 3-5 years. And you could tell. We definitely had our piece of work cutting out for us.

 And hither it is today, 2016, correct before nosotros listed it for sale a calendar week ago. I'm pretty thrilled alongside how much meliorate it looks.

We didn't practise a lot to the exterior, but nosotros did exactly plenty to freshen it upwardly in addition to larn far await a picayune to a greater extent than updated (without having to pass tons of money). We gave the outside a fresh coat of pigment (Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray), painted the cut down white, in addition to painted the front end door (Sherwin Williams Urbane Bronze). We updated all of the lighting, stained the deck to stand upwardly for the house, in addition to replaced the garage doors (The former garage doors didn't piece of work for the starting fourth dimension 4.5 years nosotros lived here, in addition to allow me exactly tell you, best coin I ever spent on this house...the luxury of beingness able to force a push in addition to drive your machine into your car-room!!!! I had no idea!!! Is this what the fancy people are doing?!?! Why did no i tell me?!!?). The landscaping was inwards actually bad shape when nosotros starting fourth dimension moved in, but over fourth dimension Jesse obsessed over our grass until it became a beautiful cushiony grass pillow. Not certain he actually nailed it alongside the bushes, but whatever, he gets a meg human being points for spending thence much fourth dimension out inwards the hot sun, loving on our picayune yard.

So, that's the exterior. We've spent a lot of fourth dimension inwards the yard alongside Ava recently, exactly crawling roughly inwards the grass in addition to enjoying all of our difficult work, in addition to I volition definitely miss spending fourth dimension out here. I'm thence excited to travel past times this beauty on to the adjacent family. I promise they volition bask it equally much equally nosotros did.

And now,  I'll demo you guys the pictures of the interior that nosotros used for our work solid listing. The pictures turned out actually well, in addition to the lensman used a much wider lens than I have, thence I remember this makes for a nifty concluding work solid tour of this house. You'll belike larn a meliorate feel of what the work solid actually looks like, much meliorate than I was ever able to furnish you with!


Dining room:

Entryway:

Kitchen:

I release picayune bottles of sparkling H2O (I've never drank it inwards my life.), took all my bass fish magnets off the refrigerator (hehe), pose a giant bowl of apples on the table, in addition to opened a cookbook to a colorful page for the showings. I experience similar the details brand all the difference. 

Living room:
I got rid of most of my pinkish for the showings (and I won't live going back...it's a novel day) in addition to opted for to a greater extent than blues in addition to greens roughly the house.

Guest bathroom:

Since nosotros moved Ava's crib dorsum into our sleeping room long, long ago, nosotros staged her plant nursery equally a sleeping room (with ii air mattresses in addition to some extra bedding I had on hand), thence that people could meet this room laid upwardly equally a bedroom. It took me nearly an hour, but I actually remember it helped the work solid demo a lot meliorate than if I had exactly left all of her babe junk in addition to toys laying on the Blue Planet (like it is inwards existent life). I mean, if they opened the closet, they nevertheless got to meet the consummate babe gear debauchery, but hey, a daughter tin forcefulness out alone practise thence much.

Office:

I honey how good the lensman captured the primary bedroom. You guys receive got belike seen this sleeping room a hundred times on this blog, but I've never been able to capture it this accurately. I volition miss this room thence much. Our novel primary sleeping room is nearly 1/3 of this size, but you can't receive got everything, girl.

 

I laid upwardly the picayune side room alongside a loveseat in addition to styled it upwardly alongside whatever I could detect inwards the house, in addition to I seriously got kinda mad at myself bc it turned into a cute, functional picayune infinite in addition to I was similar WHY did I never practise this for the half-dozen years nosotros lived here!? Such is life.

There's the side room. First fourth dimension it's ever been photographed good on my blog. This was the master copy primary sleeping room for this house, but they built on that huge add-on dorsum inwards the 80's. I never did larn roughly to replacing that fan.

H5N1 peek into Ava's 'room'. Turns out that picayune nook inwards our sleeping room served a nifty purpose afterall!

Master bathroom:

Entryway downwards into the basement living room:

Basement living room:

Basement bathroom:

Basement bedroom:

And that, friends, is the concluding work solid tour of this work solid we've loved thence much for the past times half-dozen years. I'm pretty proud of our piece of work hither in addition to I'm thence thankful that I got to portion it alongside all of you on this blog. It's been a actually amazing component subdivision of my life.

In other news, Ava turns i tomorrow!!! We volition live taking her to practise her favorite activity, swimming, in addition to I bought her a picayune cake to nail her hands roughly in. :)

Here are a span pics from Father's day. Jesse wanted to pass the twenty-four hours at the lake, in addition to thence nosotros did. 

We lasted nearly xxx minutes in addition to ended upwardly at a lakeside restaurant, but it was nevertheless an amazing day. Splashing roughly inwards the shallow terminate (and earthworks inwards the sand) alongside her dad past times her side is Ava's favorite activity, in addition to Jesse seems to bask it, too. :)

Thanks for beingness here, y'all. We'll live closing on our novel work solid early on adjacent calendar week in addition to hopefully closing the sale on our electrical flow work solid inwards exactly a few weeks. So, want us luck! Time to detect some movers. 

P.S. Because I tin forcefulness out alone fit thence much inwards i post, if you desire to meet the before pics of the house, larn to this post.

'Til adjacent time.

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