Bathroom Update #2

We made a LOT of progress yesterday! The light and fan are up, about half of the room is painted, the vanity is in, and the floor is almost done.

We want to tile the floor, but we don't have enough time for that right now, so we just bought cheap linoleum stick on tiles for right now to satisfy the inspector. I'll save the rest of the pictures for the final result - but here's a picture of the vanity and sticky tiles.

Before:




After: (Pardon the bad quality picture - it was taken at night with my phone because the camera batteries died. Better ones to come later.)




-Lisa

Bathroom Progress

This Monday, we found out that we could start working on the unfinished bathroom in our house, so we scrambled to get the rest of the supplies we needed and came back on Tuesday to start work. It's going well, but not exactly as fast as we need it to! We have to have the papers signed and the bathroom done and inspected by the 25th, so we are in a huge time crunch. We hope to be in the house by the 1st of April.

Here's pictures of our progress on the first day of work:

We started out with no walls what so ever - here's the room with only a couple sheets of drywall -






The spot where the vanity and mirror will go -




We now have the drywall up, I'm taping it -






The walls mudded, and for fun, the mounds of spray foam that we can't stop from coming out of the can -






More pictures to come!



-Lisa

New Job!

Nic has a new job!!!

He will still be with Verizon Wireless, but instead of working tech support in Folsom, he will now be a programmer in Walnut Creek! This is GREAT news on SO many levels.

+It is closer to Vacaville where we are buying a house.
+He will be making around $600-800 more a month than he makes now.
+It's programming, which is something he loves to do and is great at.
+He will have his own office
+He gets a free phone from the company :)
+He also gets a free laptop and aircard.

He was picked for the job out of about 170 applicants, so of course we are so proud of him for blowing away that much competition! He will start in about 2 weeks, which will coincide with our move in time in Vacaville. We are so, so happy about this!


-Lisa

We got a house!!!

After 2 months of searching and about 10 bids submitted, we finally found a house!

It's a 3 bedroom 2 bath, but used to be a 4 bedroom. Previous owners knocked out a wall between 2 rooms to make a HUGE master bedroom with 2 closets one of which is a walk - in with a skylight! It has brand new Milgard windows, a pretty new roof with new insulation, an updated kitchen, and a HUGE shed in the backyard. We also made a great discovery the other day - the carpet needs to be replaced badly... previous owners had a dog that used it as a bathroom and they apparently didn't try to clean it up. We pulled back the carpet in a few places, and there is solid oak flooring under there that seems to be in great condition! :)

We are getting an FHA loan, which basically allows us to only put 3.5% down and secures our loan for the mortgage company - and they have certain standards that the house's condition has to meet to be able to fund the loan. The FHA inspector came out last week and asaessed the house, and the only thing that came back on that report was the 2nd bathroom. We knew that would happen, because it's in the middle of a remodel and therefore unfinished. All we have to do is put some drywall, a sink, and tile the shower to be able to get the loan and move in. We're actually excited about that, because we get to finished the remodel ourselves and do it the way we want to.

Without further ado - pictures!

The kitchen - the cabinets look like they are different colors, but they're not. The flash made the one bank look brighter.


The living room:


First half of the master bedroom:


Second half (the cabinet is probably going):


The walk - in closet:


Colors (from top to bottom) Aaron's room, Hailey's room, and second bathroom:


The outside of the house is a gross gray color with maroon trim, and we're DEFINITELY painting that. The light color will be the body of the house and the dark will be the trim.


Tile we picked out for the bathroom - we will do 6x6 tiles for the shower surround and 12x12 for the floor. We're going to do a decorative strip with glass tiles or some type of stone, but we haven't picked that out yet.


We just got the contract paperwork signed by the bank back, so our realtor is ordering the pest and roof inspections now. They should be some time next week, I'll update when we get more news!


- Lisa