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We have a house!!!

Although it seems it's taken an eternity to secure a home, we have, after a somewhat short amount of time, secured a home for us in our new stomping grounds. It has been a shaky process and at one point we actually walked away from the home as we were unable to come to an agreement with the former owner, but we can now officially say that we have our new project. Wow. A new project. Wasn't ever sure I wanted another one, but here we are.

The beauty of this new-to-us house is that it's a mid-1930s farmhouse, so we're fairly certain there should be some interesting finds as we get started. It is in very rough shape, so there will be much work to do, but we're kind of excited to save something that was destined for demolition (literally, as the seller intended to sell to developers who will be working on the plot of land next door, and most certainly they would've bulldozed the home to make way for new ones). 

Personally, I am a bit overwhelmed (I'm completely lying because I am ENTIRELY overwhelmed), as the space is larger than we need/intended to buy. Our hope was to find something older, but much smaller, so we're trying to mentally break things down, even before we begin, into more manageable pieces. We're likely going to start with easier rooms because we have some rearranging to do in some parts to make it more functional/usable for us, but hopefully that will allow the time to make the right decisions.

First up will be removal of all the carpeting and other flooring in the house. It's all smelly, ugly, in many places destroyed, and just needs to come out. Since we have to wait longer than we anticipated to have our belongings delivered, it makes sense to start with removal of things that we know need to go.

After that, we'll likely work on lighting (at least in a few rooms), but beyond that, we don't have a task list created yet, so that will probably be an early project as well so that we don't lose focus as we move forward.

We have no idea where this journey is taking us, but we're about to find out! Hopefully, we'll have some interesting projects along the way to share, but until then, we're happy to say that we will have a place to rest our heads soon. 

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