Friday, December 23, 2005

Popcorn ceilings are down!!! (mostly)

What an awful job. To give you an idea what we've been through, here are some photos of the mess. We've basically spent over a week straight scraping, sanding, painting, all the ceilings in the house. It created such a mess it's incredible. What a filthy job! But the results are worth it, I'll be posting pictures once we're done with the painting.
Here's the floor where the ceiling droppings fall.


Here are some before and during pictures of our main room with a vaulted ceiling and skylight (all were covered in popcorn).






That was a hell of a lot of scraping and sanding!! We've since then painted that ceiling to look like a sunset (orange and yellow). It looks much better and feels more like home! I hope I never see another ceiling with popcorn again ever!

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Well, of course our closing was delayed by a day because the stupid lenders couldn't get it together. It was stressful but we closed today and now own our first home! Of course everything cost more than they estimated at closing, but at least it's done. This blog will soon become a "before and after" home remodeling blog as we tackle all the major and minor projects to make the place feel like ours.

-Jordan

Monday, December 05, 2005

Well, we're supposed to be closing tomorrow! Hopefully everything comes together...I can't believe how many headaches the lender has already given us. I've spent hours faxing over bank statements, checks, leases, etc all in an attempt to prove something obvious, that we have been renters for 2 years! So annoying.

Anyway here are pictures of the lot/floorplan/etc for the curious family members who asked.