A sneak peak....

We've been in our house for about 8 months now, but the first 3 months were spent renovating/cleaning. We bought a foreclosure and it has beautiful bones, and was only 20 years old!  Owning a home has been quite the adventure, but I can honestly say that I have enjoyed every minute of it and wouldn't trade anything for it (OK, maybe not the nights up till 2am painting and cleaning...). Here is a sneak peak of what we first saw when we walked in our house for the first time...

 WOAH.

That's a lot of pink. Is that really textured wallpaper? Cool?? But that staircase is...amazing. And we could get a ladder to paint...right?  That's what went through my head. You can see our dining room, which would turn out to be a room I spent the most time painting.

Fast forward two months of closing, a lot of packing, and more hard work than I thought I was capable of, we have our dream home.  

         

This week I will post pictures of the interior before and afters, which include lots and lots of paint (turns out pink is a VERY stubborn color), flooring, gallons of 409 and bleach, and of course magic erasers.

Never the less, pink or not, this is our home, our nest, and we love it.