Finally!

What you've all been waiting for...PICTURES!

Let's start with the outside...

Front of our house...left side.

Front of our house (left side)...another view.

Covered, overgrown, and ugly back porch.

Front of our house (right side).

Another overgrown backyard view.

Our awesome front door + window.

As you can see, things are pretty overgrown, outdated, and just plain ugly!  But we think this house has a good...foundation...so that's something!!  No, I'm joking. It's got good bones and I think we can really make it shine. It's just going to take a lot of time and money and money and time. Oh. And hard work.

And now for some fabulously terrifying interior pictures...

An inside shot of our very cool door.

Mark in front of our huge living room windows.

Another view of our great room.

(Something in this picture became our first remodel project!)

Kitchen. Cool windows. Yellow sink.

Dining nook. Those curtains are already gone.

Andrea's apartment...I mean part of our basement.

So, there is a small glimpse of our huge new-to-us house! I decided not to bore you with about 1,000 square feet of cement-floored basement, three boring bedrooms...actually, one is all wood and quite fabulous:

and two bathrooms. Actually, one of those is pretty photo-worthy too:

You may be thinking...are you sure that is a bathroom? Could it be an entrance to a saloon? (Check out the swinging door...that doesn't go all the way to the top or bottom!)  I promise this interior outhouse is an actual bathroom - complete with working toilet and shower stall! You may ask, where do you wash your hands?  My only answer is, the shower, of course!

We have so many projects ahead of us, we decided to start one that we would actually be able to finish within a week. My next big post will be about that amazing transformation. Prepare yourself to be shocked and amazed!