FINALLY SOME PICTURES.....

I am sooo proud of what we have done here in this short time. This house was filthy when we got here and we cleaned it. The yard had not been tended to in some time and Mike worked his magic on cleaning up the gardens. And we have way more neat plants then we thought. If it is not pouring rain tomorrow I will get out and take some garden pictures. We will do some landscaping...but that will be down the line. Lots will be down the line. This house will be a work in progress for a long time...but will be worth it! It will be easier when we are actually living here...and that is our next goal. To leave Friday AM and get to Michigan and start packing...and figure out how to move....some by ourselves...but we may do pods too.

Here is a picture of Pam and Stevie when they came to see us on Saturday. Note the colors of the room in back of them (which will be our living/family room).....and note the red under the stairs....THAT was the color of the kitchen. The kitchen opens off of the entrance room which is tiled and which will be our Victorian sittingroom/foyer. The livingroom comes off of the left..and the dining room off the right. Anyway...the two rooms we painted were the kitchen and the living/family room. The others we got paint matched at Walmart and we did touch ups.

This is the view out our front door on to our porch....we have a great tree out there....if anyone knows...let us know what it is. It is like a snowball bush but is more of a tree...lots of interesting things like that!
Here is the kitchen...now light yellow. It looks white in the pics...but IS yellow! Painting it was one of the hardest things I have ever done! The ceilings are way high! And there are angles galore. I started out with brushes and did that with taping it the whole first day. The second day I tried the roller. Well duh!! Roller is the way to go! It went sooo much faster. Near the very end, I stepped off the ladder wrong (thought I was on the first step and I was on the 2nd) and fell back...hit my head HARD on our new stove! Luckily no damage was done to the stove...and no paint was spilled. I got an egg sized lump on the head which is better...but still there and sore. I was afraid after what happened to poor Natasha Richardson...but, thank God, I am still here and am OK! See we got our curtains up! Another goal we wanted to achieve before we left here this time.

A view of our new stove and fridge! And the pitcher on the shelf is from Texas....we have a small pitcher collection which we will put up there...and add to over time.

Here are the stairs going up with the kitchen in the background

This room will be used as our living/family room...with the TV in it and stuff. I painted it in one afternoon after I found out about using a roller for the walls and a foam edger for the edging. It turned out great! Weird color...but the rest of the house is pretty much that color and Walmart did a great job of matching. There is a half bath off of it. You can see the tree house out the window....in the back yard to the side.

This room will be our dining room....we will get rid of the fan and get a chandelier. This room and the sitting room will be getting crown molding eventually.

Mike enjoying the first meal I cooked for us in our new house. We ate fast food a LOT!

Me cooking in our new YELLOW kitchen...yesterday....

Here is the settee we bought at the auction place in Rosebud. The kitty likes it!

The sitting room from the stairs. Can you visualize how it will be? A small coffee table in front of the settee....some side chair (which are not lawn chairs)....an oriental rug on the floor...some palms by the windows.....

Here is the @#%& shower curtain. You cannot imagine what I have tried with this thing! I have bought and taken back at least 3 shower curtains! I tried tying it back...which is what it looked like when we saw the house furnished....nothing really looked good to me. I finally came up with this....and this is it for now. It does have to be functional after all..... I love the palms. I got this a Big Lots for really, really cheap and do want to use it if I can!

Another view....the bathroom is pretty big actually but is long and narrow with a very cool dormer window in it...to the left of the little table....

The upstairs hallway.... Our room is to the right....your room when you come and visit is either straight ahead or to the left.

Our room. Each room upstairs has a long window and a dormer window...lots of slanting walls which I love. Pretty good sized closets too! And lots of outlets....thank goodness for rewiring!

The middle guest room.....

The east guest bedroom..... More curtains are coming. I did not order enough. Bought them online and love them. I wanted, at least the front the house to have all identical curtains on it.

The view out the back porch of our back yard. You can see the back of the trailer on the right. We have a nice big lot...lots of space between us and any neighbors and lots of privacy.

That is it for now. Will try to put some more pics on tomorrow. We will be traveling back to Michigan on Friday and Saturday. Will continue this blog through the packing process and everything. It is therapeutic for me! Happy Easter everyone! Love from us both!!