Before & After

When Chris and I bought our first home it definately wasn't the house of my dreams. In fact, I cried. You see, I was in Oregon visiting my family and Chris was here in Denver. We had been looking at houses but hadn't found anything yet that we really liked. So Chris was at his sisters house visiting her (here in Denver...Aurora actually), and this houe was for sale just a couple of houses away from her. Chris looked at it and called to tell me about it. "It's so big", "the master bedroom is huge", blah blah blah. Long story short, Chris really wanted to make an offer so we did.....without me having ever seen the house. Of course, you can always get out of it later so I knew it wasn't the end of the world, but still a very scary and risky move. So we made an offer, they accepted, and I came home. And I cried!
The pictures below don't even do the house justice. It was so awful. The carpets were disgusting! Animals had definately done their business on the carpets, spills everywhere...it was just horrible. The paint/wall paper was also awful. It's an old house so things were falling apart, closet doors missing, etc. Needless to say, I was not happy. At all.
We had an inspection done on the house and after that I said "sorry, no can do." I definately didn't want this house. The seller was already going to give us several thousand dollars for fix ups, but after I said no, they came back with a much larger amount to give us for fixing it up, and after careful consideration I felt like with a little paint, new carpet, and some all around TLC, we could make it work. So we accepted.
Now we are moving. The house isn't perfect by any means. There is still a lot of work that could be done, but it's improved so much. I am very sad to be leaving my home and ironically, I cried when we decided to move. But I'm very proud of it, so here are the before and after pictures. (One note, some of the stuff in the pictures isn't mine. our realtor had a decorator come in and "stage" my house and she brought some stuff of her own. A good portion of it, and all the big furniture is mine.)

notice the nasty carpet and lovely paint. oh, and don't forget the shutters in the archways.

Aahhh....much better.

Again, carpet!!

I'm pretty sure that microwave was one of the first ones ever made!!

And my favorite room, before and after. The wallpaper on bottom was actually fuzzy and the top was shimmery. Yikes!

Now, it's my favorite room!

this room was the worst "animal business" room. It smelled horrible.

Now it's a cute guest room.

I don't even know what to call that color. The mirrored shower door was also not my favorite.

I went a little crazy with the green color, but no regrets. I've enjoyed it.

I LOVE my master bedroom. It is big like Chris said. So they got something right I guess.