Jared77
Garden Addicted
WE WILL BE HOMEOWNERS AGAIN!!!!!!!
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:rose :happy_flower :coolsun :rainbow-sun 
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HA! Its been just over 3 years and we're finally able to do it again. We lost our house when I was laid off from the City of Detroit and my wife had to have back surgery for a degenerative disk requiring a spinal fusion. Putting us both out of commission that we just couldn't come back from to keep that house.
Its 2 acres, 1800sqft with a full basement and all ours! That's the closing date and we get keys at closing. Its a full sun kind of yard too. Lots of options for us.
I'm just thrilled to have our own house again. Busted our humps, made some sacrifices, and we're seeing the fruits of our labors. Now on 3/26 the real work starts. I have to finish the mudroom (the drywall is hung just needs me to finish the mudding, paint, put down a finished floor, its just a luan subfloor right now, paint and trim. Going to do laminate tiles and grout between them since its a mudroom, and we need a floor that's sealed tight. The mudroom is plumbed for a washer/dryer and has a sink and drain tub in it so that room which is a huge plus. Will be great to leave snowy boots and wet/muddy clothes instead of tracking them all through the house. And before you ask its on a slab it was an addition that was put on so the grout won't crack with a shifting floor
)
I'm stoked to have shelves in the basement for all our canned goods. Can't wait to not have to move things constantly when we need to get to something or we canned something else. That got old real fast.
Another super cool thing is when they added the mudroom at the other end of the house they also added a den which is on a crawlspace (don't ask me why they did a slab for the mudroom and a crawl for the den the house was built in 1999 so who knows what the thought process was) but I've got a 4'x4' opening in the basement wall to enter a pretty tall crawlspace since its the size of the den. So that gives me this HUGE cold storage area!!! I'll have to get a themometer down there to figure out exactly where things will go but when I saw that space I immediately thought "potatoes there, onions there, carrots there...
Realtor was asking me why I was spending so much time looking at a crawlspace and I simply said "storage" and he said "Guess you got a lot of stuff then?" I just smiled and said "In a good year we do" which left him even more confused) I figure Ill get build some crates line them with screen and Ill take advantage of that cold space without taking away any actual floorspace in the full basement.
2nd floor laundry (they converted the upstairs linen closet to the washer/dryer) & that's where the all bedrooms are so that's another bonus.
Downside?
Prepping a whole new area for the veggie garden.
Painting the entire inside of the house, from the ceilings down INCLUDING the navy blue bedroom (going to put that Behr paint & primer combo to the test) which is going to be our daughter's bedroom and get the nursery painted and set up.
The area all around It was an old farm so the field that finally was sold and the lots divided up in approx 2 acre pieces so its VERY open. My wife's not such a fan so I'll be planting some faster growing thick hedge/shrubs to help give it a more secluded feel. But it was give a little on the openness (which we can fix) to get a really nice house. I'm open to privacy plant suggestions too.
The transplanting. We landscaped at our current place and Ill have to dig and divide a lot of plants. We already decided we'd divide and take 1/2 of the divisions so the current place isn't left bare so in return we can transplant at our leisure. I just remember when we moved out of our old house to the rental it took 3 trips with a minivan with all the seats out to move all the perennials we'd planted and silly us we added ot that! Some we're leaving (like the dutch honeysuckle, the rhodies which I'm not a fan of especially since they always look so weak but DW liked them so we had some, and the really big bleeding hearts) but others like the clematises that my wife's had since she first moved into her own place when she went to college have to come with us inspite of my very humble suggestion to replace them since we know the variety. Nope those plants have to be moved. I knew it was a long shot but nothing ventured nothing gained. Ill be dividing up a whole mess of daylilies since they are getting fairly thick (we have over a dozen varieties), and same with the Patriot hostas which we've got quite a few of too.
Needless to say I'm going to be stupid busy. But once its done all those things are done. They are not reoccuring problems its just getting them tackled. I know Rome wasn't built in a day but even the Roman's had a legions of help! Ill be painting by myself, and prepping beds by myself too. It was a lot of work when my wife and I did the beds originally but she's now 6 months pregnant with our 2nd child and its late already March so she'll be supervising for the most part.
Ill try to remember to get lots of pics, and status pictures as we make progress and put our stamp on the place. So if I'm not here much that's why.
But its a good kind of busy BECAUSE ITS ALL WORK FOR MY HOUSE!!!
: :bun :rose :happy_flower :coolsun :rainbow-sun :weightHA! Its been just over 3 years and we're finally able to do it again. We lost our house when I was laid off from the City of Detroit and my wife had to have back surgery for a degenerative disk requiring a spinal fusion. Putting us both out of commission that we just couldn't come back from to keep that house.
Its 2 acres, 1800sqft with a full basement and all ours! That's the closing date and we get keys at closing. Its a full sun kind of yard too. Lots of options for us.
I'm just thrilled to have our own house again. Busted our humps, made some sacrifices, and we're seeing the fruits of our labors. Now on 3/26 the real work starts. I have to finish the mudroom (the drywall is hung just needs me to finish the mudding, paint, put down a finished floor, its just a luan subfloor right now, paint and trim. Going to do laminate tiles and grout between them since its a mudroom, and we need a floor that's sealed tight. The mudroom is plumbed for a washer/dryer and has a sink and drain tub in it so that room which is a huge plus. Will be great to leave snowy boots and wet/muddy clothes instead of tracking them all through the house. And before you ask its on a slab it was an addition that was put on so the grout won't crack with a shifting floor
)I'm stoked to have shelves in the basement for all our canned goods. Can't wait to not have to move things constantly when we need to get to something or we canned something else. That got old real fast.
Another super cool thing is when they added the mudroom at the other end of the house they also added a den which is on a crawlspace (don't ask me why they did a slab for the mudroom and a crawl for the den the house was built in 1999 so who knows what the thought process was) but I've got a 4'x4' opening in the basement wall to enter a pretty tall crawlspace since its the size of the den. So that gives me this HUGE cold storage area!!! I'll have to get a themometer down there to figure out exactly where things will go but when I saw that space I immediately thought "potatoes there, onions there, carrots there...
Realtor was asking me why I was spending so much time looking at a crawlspace and I simply said "storage" and he said "Guess you got a lot of stuff then?" I just smiled and said "In a good year we do" which left him even more confused) I figure Ill get build some crates line them with screen and Ill take advantage of that cold space without taking away any actual floorspace in the full basement. 2nd floor laundry (they converted the upstairs linen closet to the washer/dryer) & that's where the all bedrooms are so that's another bonus.
Downside?
Prepping a whole new area for the veggie garden.
Painting the entire inside of the house, from the ceilings down INCLUDING the navy blue bedroom (going to put that Behr paint & primer combo to the test) which is going to be our daughter's bedroom and get the nursery painted and set up.
The area all around It was an old farm so the field that finally was sold and the lots divided up in approx 2 acre pieces so its VERY open. My wife's not such a fan so I'll be planting some faster growing thick hedge/shrubs to help give it a more secluded feel. But it was give a little on the openness (which we can fix) to get a really nice house. I'm open to privacy plant suggestions too.
The transplanting. We landscaped at our current place and Ill have to dig and divide a lot of plants. We already decided we'd divide and take 1/2 of the divisions so the current place isn't left bare so in return we can transplant at our leisure. I just remember when we moved out of our old house to the rental it took 3 trips with a minivan with all the seats out to move all the perennials we'd planted and silly us we added ot that! Some we're leaving (like the dutch honeysuckle, the rhodies which I'm not a fan of especially since they always look so weak but DW liked them so we had some, and the really big bleeding hearts) but others like the clematises that my wife's had since she first moved into her own place when she went to college have to come with us inspite of my very humble suggestion to replace them since we know the variety. Nope those plants have to be moved. I knew it was a long shot but nothing ventured nothing gained. Ill be dividing up a whole mess of daylilies since they are getting fairly thick (we have over a dozen varieties), and same with the Patriot hostas which we've got quite a few of too.
Needless to say I'm going to be stupid busy. But once its done all those things are done. They are not reoccuring problems its just getting them tackled. I know Rome wasn't built in a day but even the Roman's had a legions of help! Ill be painting by myself, and prepping beds by myself too. It was a lot of work when my wife and I did the beds originally but she's now 6 months pregnant with our 2nd child and its late already March so she'll be supervising for the most part.
Ill try to remember to get lots of pics, and status pictures as we make progress and put our stamp on the place. So if I'm not here much that's why.
But its a good kind of busy BECAUSE ITS ALL WORK FOR MY HOUSE!!!
