I wanted to pop in to share that we’re now homeowners! We closed on our house yesterday and spent the better part of the day embarking on our ambitious to-do list. We pulled carpet out of the coat closet, removed dozens and dozens of nails and screws from the walls, ripped out hundreds of tiny carpet staples that were left in the stairs (when the house apparently had ’70s gold carpet), and removed kitchen cabinets from one of the bedrooms upstairs. We didn’t get to everything we wanted to do on day one, but we’re feeling pretty good about the progress we did make. I’ll start posting on our shared Instagram account for the house at @curatedcouple soon and we’ll get our home blog up and running, too! Until then, things are going to be on the quieter side ’round these parts. We really need to get the painting done in the house before the floors are refinished in three weeks.
Left to right:
- A light globe we found at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $1. We purchased two. One is going in my upstairs walk-in closet, which the city assessed as a fourth bedroom in the house. We’ll need to have the house reassessed since you can’t actually fit a twin-size bed into the room and still walk in and around it.
- Our closing-day selfie! I look jazzed and Dave looks like he’d rather we put down the phone and get to work. 😉
- Adding some life to the place — literally. The most recent owner purchased the house in 2001, but then started dating a woman and moved in with her, leaving the home all but abandoned. We met our neighbors who said prior to his ownership, students lived there and even earlier, there were drug dealings. I’m not sure how true the last one is, but who knows. A house built in 1929 probably has plenty of stories within its walls — and maybe old pot, too. (Kidding!)
Yayyy!! So exciting! I can’t wait to follow along on the journey! The house is going to be amazing
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Congratulations !!!! what a big step and the fact that its a 1920s home makes it all even better.
Congrats! I’m always interested in hearing about others buying and fixing prewar homes; my house is a 1925 Tudor revival near Detroit that we bought from HUD in 2012 after it’s second foreclosure. We are slowly bringing it back to life and loving the process. Good luck!
Congrats so happy you finally found your dream home.
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So happy you guys finally got a house!! I can’t wait to see how you transform it. 🙂 I love old houses!
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Congratulations!!! We just bought a new house and moved too, except this one is brand new and honestly after all of our other fixer-upers we’ve had throughout the years, I’m glad not to have to do any house stuff for a while 😉 And yes, yes, yes get ALL of the painting you want done before the floors get refinished, I did that in our first house, I painted the entire interior in like 2-3 weeks. It sucked doing it (my back and shoulders hated me) but I’m so glad it got done before the floors, getting the floors done is transforming, so the interior looked like a whole new house! Can’t wait to follow along to see everything you all do!!
Hooray!! Congratulations on homeownership! So glad everything worked out.
so happy for you – can’t wait to see more! isn’t it interesting to 1. see what horrible decisions people made in that house before and 2. what the house has gone through? the stories we had heard about our place! oh man.
Congrats on the house! Sounds like you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you, but I’m sure it will be worth it when you are finished and the house feels like home. Glad to hear you are getting a walk in closet too!!
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