So, we go through all this trouble to buy this house with no appliances or running water and our car dies. Now what do we do?
Let's just say, we had a busy week ahead of us. We showered at our gym in the mornings and I called a friend of the family to come help us make the house liveable.
We went to a furniture store to get some living room furniture, a dining room table, some bureaus for our bedroom and an island for the kitchen. This took about a week to deliver.
We started to fix up the house with the bathroom and the kitchen sink. We got a toilet and got all the plumbing fixed, then we got our kitchen sink fixed.
After that, we went to town cleaning and painting. And more cleaning and painting.
Meanwhile, we had our plumber friend get the rental liveable and I posted an add on Craigslist. There were no responses, so I lowered the price by $50 and we had 15 responses. We settled a tenant, wrote up a lease with a lawyer at the office I was working in, got it signed, and picked up any appliances the rental needed.
(The tenant has been great so far! Has repainted the whole place and had an interior decorator come in. It looks amazing.)
As far as the car dilemma, we went to carmax and got another car. A Honda, far more reliable than the BMW we had. The car shop paid for our rental and for a little bit of the new car because they put a wrong part in the BMW and were the reason the car died in the first place.
A week in, our best friends came to help us clean up the house and do some painting. Our families also came to help us out. We so desperately needed the help and will never forget the willingness of our closest friends to be there for us at that time.
A couple months in, the place was starting to really be liveable and even comfortable.
My friend Amanda came to live with us at that time for a summer internship she was doing in NYC. She has an incredible eye for design and organization and she helped me get out of boxes and organize everything and make it look nice.
Kevin and I started antiquing and found some really unique pieces of furniture to give the place an earthy, yet clean feel. Decorating was definitely the fun part for us.
In Kevin's study, he painted it a forest green and built a bookcase out of trees from our backyard. It is beautiful!
The whole house has a little bit of Gracie style and a little bit of Kevie style and I love that.
Our first home.
Full of sweat, tears, laughter, kisses.
Let's just say we finally understand the term labor of love. :)
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