New House!

I briefly blogged in my April update that we were back in Manhattan.

Now I'm going to elaborate a little more on our house!

We moved into mom and dads house in May and put all of belongings either in their storage room or a storage room here in Manhattan and began looking for a new house.

This was a longer harder process than we thought. We didn't have a lot of options in our price range and I wasn't going to settle on something because this would be a house we lived in for quite awhile.

We ended up finding one on Treesmill that was a for sale by owner and it was gorgeous! The basement needed some work but the main floor and upstairs was amazing. It was all updated and just gorgeous. So, we put an offer after viewing the home. Things were going well until we had the home inspection. It was just a mess and I honestly can't even remember half of it but our inspector advised us to run! So we did just that, and the search continued.

We found another house on Woods drive but I wasn't completely sold on it. The kitchen was very outdated and I just wasn't real sure. We wanted a master bath with 2 vanities maybe 1 more bedroom if we could. But nothing else was coming on the market and we were ready to get a house of our own! We ended putting an offer and after some negotiating we got it. House inspecting was much better this time with a few minor things but nothing major!

We closed right before labor day weekend and began moving. Brian couldn't take much time off so we hired a moving company to help move since I was pregnant. Before we did move in we had the entire upstairs (minus the bathrooms, kitchen, laundry room and dining room) painted, and the entire downstairs (minus guest room and bathroom) painted.

I believe we moved over Labor Day weekend and got all settled in. One of the deals Brian and I made when we bought this house was that the kitchen would be updated sooner rather than later. So, we began that process.  Below is a list of things we did and a things we would still like to do eventually but the house is coming a lot and we are enjoying it.

Things we have done:
New flooring in the kitchen, laundry room, living room, hallway and master bathroom
New granite counter tops in the kitchen
New appliances - refrigerator, stove, microwave, and dishwasher
New granite sink
New blacksplash
Wallpaper removed from kitchen and dining room and new paint

Things to do:
New windows throughout the whole house
Fix door walkout door in basement
New carpet in upstairs bedrooms