My husband I bought our house nearly five years ago when we relocated to Tennessee from Chicago where we were both born and raised. It was the first time in my life I had ever lived in a "real house" (i.e...not an apartment) because I was raised in the city, but David spent a good portion of his childhood living in a "real house" because he was raised in the suburbs, but as an adult he was an apartment dweller as well.
I say all that to say this: we had absolutely no business being homeowners. We didn't know how to landscape, how to keep plants alive, how to fix *anything*, how to paint properly...the list is endless. We are still completely clueless, but the point is that now we are at least trying to make our house look presentable!
Another fact about our house: it's ugly.
No seriously. It's so ugly. We bought it with our naive hopes of "fixing it up", because "how hard can it be" and "we watch HGTV so pssssh...we got this!"
Um. No. We did not, in fact, have this. At all.
So here we are, 5 years later, with next to nothing having been done to our house...even though we've gotten REALLY good at filling it! (I'm looking at you McKenzie, Jack, and Max the Dog!) We moved in with one son, and now we have two sons, a daughter, and a fur baby that is bigger than most of our kids!
We're finally committed to making our house a home, even if it's not the trendiest, not the prettiest, it will reflect what we love, and it will be ours, and we're excited to get started!
Enjoy the ride. :)
PS.. Below you can see the changes we've made to the exterior of the house: painting the porch and shutters white, new front door, cheap-o Walmart bricks to surround the ugly dying tree...more cheap-o Walmart edger stones surrounding the totally unlandscaped front of our house... Opinions?!
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