1/2 a mile from the house
Our only neighbor to the west...my cousin Craig's house upon the hill above the lake
Southwest view (ugly fence but we'll fix that)
South View
Our driveway arch, only neighbor to the North and the awesome North view
BEFORE
Only 2 neighbors but A LOT of work. The house was in pretty rough shape. A family lived here, but they didn't take very good care of the place...
The only thing we're keeping- this cool rock fireplace. It needs a major overhaul and cleaning, but it will look nice when we're finished with it. The woodburning stove is coming out. We'll put a cover there for now...a new gas insert later.
The kitchen cabinets don't LOOK that bad, but they were pretty gross. I was really happy when those came out. The floor was quite nasty too. The stove was gross and had moldy food stuck to the side of it. Gag!
Nasty windows
Upstairs bathroom. I can't believe people lived here. Wait 'til you see the basement though....
Upstairs bedroom #1- this room shares a wall w/the bathroom. Clearly there was a lot of water damage.
Upstairs bedroom #2- dark paneling just made it feel so much more closed in.
The upstairs bedrooms have closets back to back. They're coming out, the rooms will be one giant master bedroom and the bathroom will be expanded into bedroom #1, and a walk in closet will be built in bedroom #1 as well.
Looking back into dining room/kitchen from living room. Someone tried to fix the house up a little...
Are you ready for this? You're sure? Going downstairs now! The ugly stairway to HELL....
Look at this! The bathroom downstairs. Major water damage from above!! Yikes!
Laundry Room- It's ALL coming out. Moldy drywall, insulation behind it, cabinets...the works. TOTAL GUTTING of the basement. (thank God!)
Downstairs living room w/ kitchen area- the kids get this room for themselves. It functioned as a kitchen and dining room for the people who built the house. It'll be the kid's TV/Game room complete with a juice bar since there are full kitchen hook-ups. That wood burning stove is going bye-bye. It doesn't belong there anyway.
Kitchen area that will be the kids' juice bar/counter and sink. See the dirt piled up against the window there? There are no window wells in the basement. Rainwater came right in those windows and went down into the walls. Once it saturated the insulation it went to the carpet. I just can't believe people lived with that in this place!
Check it out! Ghosts in the basement! Look at all the ORBS! (couldn't be all the dust and mold flying thru the air could it? LOL)
This was the downstairs living room. Oooo...white paneling! They went with a different look for this room. Love that plush red carpet! ;-) This will be Kai and Kenyon's room. It's huge!
Downstairs hallway looking south....straight into Ally's bedroom. On the right are the laundry room and bathroom, on the left is a big pantry and under the stair storage area. Nice storage area! On the other side of the stairs to the left is Karter's bedroom.
Karter's room- see the water stains on the carpet?
What the heck!? Weird bathroom medicine cabinet on the wall in Karter's room. That was the first thing he ripped down.
Ally's room- we pried up the paneling to see what damage there was behind the panels. Most of the drywall in the basement was moldy. It all came out. The insulation behind it was wet as well so it came out too.
Hole in Ally's ceiling. This is right below the upstairs bedroom that shares the wall w/the upstairs bathroom and is also right next to the downstairs bath were the big water leak was. It caused the ceilings to fall in the downstairs bath and this bedroom.
East side of the yard- sooooo much work to be done in the yard as well. That'll have to be next summer's work though.
2 acres of weeds. Don't worry...they're just going to get bigger and bigger! Also, there are mounds of dirt with trash in them. The person who was hired by the bank to clean out the house for sale came in, threw everything out into the yard and then buried it in big mounds all over the yard. Nice, huh? That'll be a fun task next year. That dirt pile you see running all across the yard is the ditch. It was dug out this year. Really pretty, huh? Ugh...
East side porch. That's actually the front door side. It's in poor shape, but better than the west side porch.
East side of the house looking to the south. Nice view...no neighbors..still a plus! (there is one neighbor to the East in a crappy house. She's a whole acre away though. There is a hayfield in between her house and ours. The only other neighbor is to the North. He's the son of the man who built this house. The family owned all the land, but when the old man died they carved out 2 acres, but never actually fenced it off so we have a lot more property here than what the fences show. We have land in that hayfield, to the south and more to the west as well. We'll have to get the surveyor over to plot it all out then meet with the man who owns the hayfield- 3 Rivers Ranch-.
Big ol' Cottonwood tree w/the remnants of a tree house in it.
Karter was pretty excited about it! This is his summer project next year (if we ever get the yard into shape)
Irrigation canal under the treehouse tree..west side of the driveway...looking North. don't think it's in use anymore though. Water does come in to that silver headgate there and then the water runs across our yard to the hayfield on the East, but I don't think that big ol' canal has had water in it for years.
Check it out! My very own HAM RADIO tower! Wohoo! lol Hey...when the internets go down in a big emergency who's still gonna be able to communicate with everyone? That's right...ME! Got your ears on out there folks? ;-)
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