Our first fixer-upper!

I posted about this almost a year ago when we had first purchased a fixer upper house and I am happy to report that it is complete and sold! We put the house up on the market in April and it sold pretty quickly. Sure, it took a little longer to complete it than we had originally planned but trust me when I say this house needed a ton of work!! We gutted (okay not really me since I got pregnant in the middle of it and wasn't much help after that - ha!) the entire house. Walls were removed, windows, doors replaced, wallpaper removed, new flooring, a whole new kitchen and complete landscaping. It was a house in foreclosure when we had purchased it and they had left their big dogs in the house to destroy it and they did. I can still remember the smell the first time we walked in... gross... but my dad was 100% convinced it had potential and he was right. Derek & I were so impressed with how it turned out and I am impressed at how much Derek learned during this renovation (I have given him a honey do list for our house now!). Here are a few before/after pics (more before pictures on our older post - click here)...

Front of house before

Front of house after (new garage too!)
Kitchen before (with 4 walls)
Kitchen after (open space now)
Other side of kitchen going into the laundry room
Updated Guest Bathroom
The living room and front entrance (wall was removed and there are some of Addi's toys in this picture since she spent a lot of time over there too)