Before the Shutters!
Lynn and I have been looking for a place in the Dallas area for months and we found one we thought we wanted in an area in Richardson, Tx. Well, they took it off the market and we thought we were out of luck. Surprise! I came back on and we bought it in 10 days!!! What a whirlwind but we are thrilled now. We are working on it to get ready to move ???? when we don't know. I think it is going to be great!
Two bedrooms, split and two baths! Two atrium's, one living area (center of the house) a dining room, large kitchen with eating area and nice laundry room., Double garage!!! Small yard. That is what we were looking for---Lynn is DONE with yard work. This yard is a blank canvas and we will work on it as we see fit. We have 8' vinyl fence on two sides and poured concrete fence on other side. Buddy will have his own yard!
We have put in new granite tile counter top( Lynn is the master now of tile) and stove top and vent fan. New single sink with wonderful faucet and stainless steel fridge. We have had Dennis here all week working for us doing lots of wonderful thing, one is building our "Buddy Bench". There was a bay window in the kitchen so Buddy needed a place of his own sooooooo Dennis built it! Gives us an extra place to sit with some storage under it. Lynn is in process of painting the inside of the house. We have the two bedrooms done and ceiling fans installed. One wall in the dining room was wallpaper so I stripped it off and thought I could paint it----well, the paper was put on to the wall right on the drywall!!!! You got to be kidding!!!!! Soooo new plan, we will skimcote the wall with a plaster type compound and make it like trouled walls. There is paper in the kitchen, and both baths, front hall and back hall so we will do the same there, then paint.
Lynn laid the new floor in the laundry and we bought black washer and dryer (yes, I know that those of you who know me well will not believe that one) and we put on a Formica six foot countertop over the unstacked-stack unit! Painted it camel and will use all our Uncle Sam stuff in there. We had slate tile put in the large atrium and one wall in there is all old pavement brick and we love that look.
The plan is-----finish this house----move from Mineola just what we want and need----have a huge estate sale---then put the house up for sale. Oh, the house is for sale now, don't get me wrong but it is not listed and we are going to try to sell it ourselves for a few weeks. Yes, wouldn't you know the market went to hell about the time we did this deal It's all in timing and usually ours is not too good.
Lynn and I have been looking for a place in the Dallas area for months and we found one we thought we wanted in an area in Richardson, Tx. Well, they took it off the market and we thought we were out of luck. Surprise! I came back on and we bought it in 10 days!!! What a whirlwind but we are thrilled now. We are working on it to get ready to move ???? when we don't know. I think it is going to be great!
Two bedrooms, split and two baths! Two atrium's, one living area (center of the house) a dining room, large kitchen with eating area and nice laundry room., Double garage!!! Small yard. That is what we were looking for---Lynn is DONE with yard work. This yard is a blank canvas and we will work on it as we see fit. We have 8' vinyl fence on two sides and poured concrete fence on other side. Buddy will have his own yard!
We have put in new granite tile counter top( Lynn is the master now of tile) and stove top and vent fan. New single sink with wonderful faucet and stainless steel fridge. We have had Dennis here all week working for us doing lots of wonderful thing, one is building our "Buddy Bench". There was a bay window in the kitchen so Buddy needed a place of his own sooooooo Dennis built it! Gives us an extra place to sit with some storage under it. Lynn is in process of painting the inside of the house. We have the two bedrooms done and ceiling fans installed. One wall in the dining room was wallpaper so I stripped it off and thought I could paint it----well, the paper was put on to the wall right on the drywall!!!! You got to be kidding!!!!! Soooo new plan, we will skimcote the wall with a plaster type compound and make it like trouled walls. There is paper in the kitchen, and both baths, front hall and back hall so we will do the same there, then paint.
Lynn laid the new floor in the laundry and we bought black washer and dryer (yes, I know that those of you who know me well will not believe that one) and we put on a Formica six foot countertop over the unstacked-stack unit! Painted it camel and will use all our Uncle Sam stuff in there. We had slate tile put in the large atrium and one wall in there is all old pavement brick and we love that look.
The plan is-----finish this house----move from Mineola just what we want and need----have a huge estate sale---then put the house up for sale. Oh, the house is for sale now, don't get me wrong but it is not listed and we are going to try to sell it ourselves for a few weeks. Yes, wouldn't you know the market went to hell about the time we did this deal It's all in timing and usually ours is not too good.
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