We are still getting settled, but starting to make progress...~Mandy

Very Nice!!!!

Very Nice! Give us the scoop...square footage, bedrooms and bths...etc. How exciting! Enjoy your home!!!!

Congratulations!!

Ok, 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths. It is a tri-level, around 1300 square feet. You enter into a foyer and have the options of going upstairs or down into the "basement" it is half below ground but has really nice windows that look into the back yard. Up the stairs we have 2 big bedrooms and a full bath, the laundry room is also upstairs, a huge selling point to me. 99% of the laundry comes from the bedrooms and master bath so it is right there, how convient is that? Then on the main level there is a living room and my big eat in kitchen. The place was a rental for 5 years and the last tenant trashed the place so the investment company that we bought from had just remodeled the kitchen, new stove, new dishwasher and almost new fridge. The cabinets and countertops are less that 18 months old. The living room has 2 huge windows (think bigger than a sliding glass door) with vertical blinds. Then downstairs is a family room (we are making it a game room) with a small bedroom (Abigales's playroom) and a half bath. This winter we want to retile the bathrooms, the tile in there is in good shape but it is ugly. I want to do stone look tile, I have spent a ton of time at Home Depot lately, the sales girl knows me by name. (is that a bad thing?)

I am in the process of re landscaping the backyard. It looked like Jurasic park back there, not anymore. I spent 7 hours digging weeds and cutting down half dead evergreens on wed. I was soooo tired, but I did it without gasping for breath and I felt really good about everything I accomplished that day. I still need to level the back yard and we are going to reseed in a few weeks. I went to a great garage sale today and found a cool dark olive green couch for $40, I bought that and I have a cool dark brown chair that will look great with it. That is going to go in the living room and the game room is going to have a small tan and green couch and I am looking for game tables or possibly a pinball machine. I am mostly unpacked and I manged to misplace my scale for 2 weeks, I found it but wish it was still lost. I haven't lost a single ounce for weeks. I think it was all the fast food during the move, I am back on track now and I think all the yad work will help me with these last few pounds. I also got a really sweet dog, there is a whole thread about her, take a peek, but be prepared she will steal your heart, and your socks if she can get ahold of them. ~Mandy

Congrats!!! Sounds like just the place for you to call home!!! Looks really nice!!! Thanks for sharing!!

Congratulations on your new home. I hope it brings you tons of happiness.

Congratulations! I just bought my first little place too last year. I still have to re-model though real estate in Cali is sooo expensive!

I'm so thrilled for you and it is absolutely beautiful. It will be so much fun working on it and not getting out of breath and breaking out in sweats. Wish you all the good luck in the world.

Your friend,

Sherri

Oh it looks so homey... Congrats!!!!

Congrats!

Hugs~

I love it...what state are you in?

Mandy ~ It looks beautiful from the outside and sounds super on the inside too. You should post pics on the inside after you get settled. Our first house as a married couple was a tri-level and I LOVED it. The laundry was just outside the bedrooms and it was so convenient. Thanks for sharing and post more pics!!!

I'm in Illinois, just west of Chicago. I totally love the laundry being upstairs, that was a major selling point for me. I will take more pictures in the next week or so as I get painting and decorating finished. ~Mandy