Home is home because it’s where we are, together. And now suddenly I have a small heartache.ĭear Pinterest Loving, Overly Ambitious, Wanna Havva Perfect House Lindsay: remember this feeling as you unpack, settle, remodel, decorate, DIY, and generally start this chapter of life in your new home. I just think about us, and what we did together, and how that little house played a big role in that precious first-five-years-together chapter of our lives. The funny thing about these heart-happy memories is that the LAST thing I think about is the warped floor in the kitchen where the dishwasher leaked, the drafty windows, and the faux wood floor carpet (no, seriously) that I disliked so much. And the office where we dreamed big dreams and unknowingly made life-changing decisions, like starting a blog and going to the Philippines. The kitchen where I cooked, and we ate, and I cooked, and we ate. The big windows in the living room where I learned how to be a food photographer. Our cozy fireplace where I would sit for most of the winter with hot chocolate and that thick blue blanket. The patio and grill where he learned to grill a mean, juicy pork chop. The walls and ceiling that he stayed up so late to paint just a few days before our wedding. And I have tears in my eyes again now thinking about it again. I watched him retell stories about his memories from our first little home together, and I cried. I was at school when I got a text message from him – it was a video, him walking through each of the rooms, talking about his favorite memories from each of the spaces. We didn’t plan it out in advance, and so even though I’ve said goodbye to that old place a million and one times during our many trips back and forth during the move, I was at work and I didn’t get to go with him for the final farewell today. This morning Bjork had to go over and drop off the keys in the empty house. Since we decided not to do the full kitchen remodel, we are compensating with new kitchen appliances which have yet to be picked out and purchased, because all the options available are enough to make you want to stick your face in a tub of ice cream and never come out. But as soon as we figure out how to change the cabinets without actually changing the cabinets, we’ll be golden. All these wood tones are making me loopy. In the end, for a number of reasons, we decided that the little regular kitchen will do us beautifully for now. spending a large amount of money in good conscience. Cyuuute!Īnd then we saw the price tag and thought about what that really meant, and whether or not that was really a good use of money, and experienced the discomfort of the heart-deep always-present war of wants vs. We had one of those classic moments before we bought the house where we said something genius like, “Okay, so we’ll just knock down this wall and it will totally open up the space!” This was really going to be a real thing – we met with a builder, we had people come out to take measurements and draw up 3D plans, I pinned a whole board full of nice kitchen remodel ideas. As you might remember, we had initially planned to do a complete kitchen remodel. Welcome to my kitchen! There’s a lot I could say here, since the kitchen is my household domain. We’ve been here for almost four months now, and this about sums it up: Along with that, the reality that that time is at the bottom of our priority lists, right under Teaching, Food Blog, eCookbook, Family, Birthdays, New Baby Nephew, Spring Break, Working Out, Watching The Voice, Re-Watching the Bachelor Finale to Critique, and Eating Salted Dark Chocolate Almonds. But for all our research, one thing we did not consider: the amount of TIME it takes to make a house your home. We actually found the home we bought through this exact process. I was obsessed with the real estate apps on my phone, and I would drive around neighborhoods I liked with my Trulia app open, looking for homes for sale. We had done our homework and scoured the real estate websites. The possibility that we could make this house into our very own yum sweet home through renovating, redecorating, and making memories here. The structural condition of the home (sturdy). The amount of money we’d have left to do some projects (comfortable). For example, the neighborhood (adorable). When we decided to buy this charming little 1940s house, we took a lot of things into consideration. So let’s start from the beginning – in November, we bought a house! Hey guys! Today I am blogging on behalf of Trulia, but the views expressed here are ours, the stories are ours, the photos of my house are… obviously, ours.
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