Sold...

We did it! The first (and only) showing we had made an offer on our sweet little home. We are so pleased that we won't have to manage our jobs (I start back on Monday) and trying to have our home constantly ready to show!

It's extremely bittersweet to be moving. I love our home. We have done so many projects (some little and some big) that have made it exactly that: a home. It has definitely got its flaws like 1 bathroom and terrible apartments overlooking the fence (once they caught on fire, another time we got egged, and I even found a knife in our yard once...yuck). I love it here though!

I thought it'd be fun for me to save some pictures from our time here to look back on!

You can see why I call my blog the Bright Yellow Door. I'm not sure if the new house will have a bright  yellow door...

First, let's take a look at our laundry room when we bought this place:

Pretty exciting isn't it? Aaron made this his first project.

He used old cabinets a home owner didn't want and made it beautiful!

The next year we worked on the yard:

 

Yep, those are all weeds! A lot of miserable weeds. Aaron installed a sprinkler system in the backyard, then threw out his neck before we could put grass down. 2 months later and we had this.

Thanks to a group of incredible friends we were able to haul a brick of weeds to the dump. (2 tons in all).

Now we have a wonderful and big yard to play in. Hopefully, the new owners will add some trees and plants.

The next big project was the living room/dining room/kitchen/hall area. Yep it is all one big area! The kitchen and dining room had lovely linoleum and the living room and hall had pergo.It was nice, but cold and created a lot of echos. The cabinets were your basic starter home wood. Aaron and his new spray gun were determined to have white cabinets.

The before

It was fine, but we wanted some carpet. We moved the pergo into the kitchen are and put carpet in the living room (mmm...soft carpet, I will miss you!)

 

Oh, and I can't forget to mention the adorable cabinets handles we got at an antique store in Astoria and the wonderful tile entry way.

Last year we had a project that I was so excited for! Kennedy's room!! EEK!!! Her room was still a lovely yellow from the previous owners and held a guest bed.

And my laundry.

Aaron did an amazing job with wainscoting and painting her room. We worked together on the color scheme and nothing permanent is bright pink! We redid her dresser together and my mom made her bedding and curtains. I love her room and think it'll be the hardest to leave behind! Hopefully, her next room will be even better!

The guest room, master bedroom, and bathroom haven't really been touched yet. They were down the road project, but now we will leave that up to the home's new owners!

Aaron did do a pretty sweet closet package in our room, though.

There you have it. A quickie house tour. I will definitely miss this place, but am so excited about our new home. We don't close for about another month, but I definitely feel at peace about this whole process. 

I will share our new home soon, but want to make sure the inspection goes through well first! For our new home Aaron and I had a few prerequisites:

• Needs work, but is currently liveable.
• In a nice neighbor with some established trees.
• Not new constructions (at least 15 years old)
• More than one bathroom!
• At least three bedrooms
• A shop in the back where Aaron can build, so I can park in the garage.

 This house meets all of these! Stay tuned....