Sorry to be M.I.A for so long. Since May we have been very busy cleaning and remodeling our new house. Still many years ahead of us too. The day after the house was ours I removed all the original 1972 yellow shag carpet while my dad cleaned the garage. Then the curtains had to go as they were the ugliest lacy curtains you've ever seen. All the ceilings had acoustic popcorn and them and had to be scraped. Next was cleaning and we have been living in the house since.

The first outside project was removing the driveway from the main road to the garage. Now we have doubled our front yard and made and easier fence line. We still are not finished with this project, currently have 8 loads of dirt sitting the front yard that need to be spread out.

The next project was remodeling the apartment over the garage. The best feature of this house is the apartment and additional income potential. We convinced my sister to rent it out but we still had to do some updating. What started out as a complete bathroom remodel, and new coat of paint turned into: moving a door, running gas line to add washer & dryer, new drywall and texture in about 25% of the place, new tile floor in bathroom, laundry and kitchen and new paint. We still have small finishing touches but Steph has been living here for about a month.
Hope you enjoy the hard work we have done so far.

Living room before carpet and curtain removal and the popcorn ceiling removal.

Our current bedroom with and without carpet. Now working on wallpaper removal.

The front exterior of the house. Now all the junipers in front of the windows are gone too.

More popcorn removal. And, my dad got carried away in this room and removed the wallpaper and paneling.

Lucy cleaning the refrigerator

The old driveway slowly disappearing.

The apartment...

Dan Herrin and Grant installing the tub/shower unit.

Removing wallpaper from the closet.

The new tub/shower.

Steph moving in ... all done!!