Sunday, June 17, 2012

from the beginning...

after 2+ years of looking for a house/land, we got this email from our realtor (fwd from the listing agent) on Monday, April 9th:

FW: New UGLY listing coming up

Hello you all. I'm listing a propearty in Bradford Woods at XXX. It's a 1600 sq. ft ranch on a private road. The home next door is $900,000 piece of property. Needs a lot of tlc but it is in Bradford Woods and even if someone tore it down and put up a new one it could work. The house is vacant and the key is at my office on the desk, in the file. Please feel free to pick it up and take a look. Please don't make me do an open house there.

PS> I have a phone number for a demolition crew.

i especially love the PS.

Our offer was accepted Monday April 16th, and we closed on Friday, May 25th.

PHEW!!! it was a whirlwind adventure, and we've been moving nonstop since then. right now, we're dividing our time/resources between getting Sky Oak demo'd/remodeled/move-in-ready and getting Riverview packed up and listed to sell. having a 2.5 year old toddler that is terrified of packing tape doesn't make that easy!

this is our new schedule: a few nights a week, ian heads up to Sky Oak to work for a few hours, and spends the night on the luxurious air mattress. he travels up there early on saturday morning, usually by 7am and works until around 7pm and heads home. we have dinner and relax for the night. sunday mornings we do an early brunch, and we both pack up our vehicles with boxes. i'll head up a shortly after he does and bring london so she can get used to the new house... but unfortunately its not safe for her to stay for too long. this past weekend, she surprisingly took a nap on the air mattress, allowing ian + i to chat about the renovations and move boxes into the garage. he works all day sunday and spends the night up there. while he's working on Sky Oak, i'm working on packing up/fixing little things at Riverview. good times. i have a feeling that this schedule is going to get even worse in the upcoming weeks as we need to get more stuff done.

i have to keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it in the end. i just hope the end is sooner than later :)

and now... here are a few "before" photos for those who are curious what this place looks like!

Exterior Front:


exterior back/yard:


exterior front:


living room:


living room/towards bedroom:


living room view from dining room:


dining room looking into nook + kitchen:


dining room:


master bedroom:


"BEFORE" floorplan:


"AFTER" proposed floorplan:





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