EOWWWW....

I never imagined just how tough it would be to take this house and make it our home!

We are all just ready for vacation

Here is a  list of all the things that have been done in the last two weeks since we became home owners

1. Thoroughly cleaned all surfaces of the entire house with bleach and water
2. Regrouted the bathroom floor
3. De~cobwebbed the entire house
4. Removed all the kitchen cabinets, cleaned, sanded and painted (almost all) WHITE
5. Removed the hardware from the cabinets, cleaned and painted BLACK
6. Removed grating from the front door
7. Removed shutters from side of door
8. Painted kitchen door
   
9. Painted linen closet and trimmed with ribbon
10. Cleaned grout in kitchen 
11. Painted stove hood
12. Painted all heat registers
13. Painted kitchen wall 
14. Painted hallway
15. Painted living room 
16. Painted spare bedroom
17. Removed several bushes and trees from the yard
18. Freecycled leftover mattress and boxspring
19. Cleaned all windows
20. Sized the kitchen wall for the BB wallpaper
21. Shelf lined all shelves in kitchen 
22. Painted inside drawers in kitchen 
23. Painted inside medicine cabinet 
24. Painted medicine and lower cabinet
25. Removed all outlet and light switch covers
26. Covered AC for winter
27. Painted tile in kitchen
    
28. Cleaned fireplace and brick wall
29. Removed brick planter and repaired wall and floor
30. New GFCI switches in kitchen and bathroom
31. New Electrical panel
32. New light in basement and kitchen 
    

Left to do

1. Finish edge painting our bedroom
2. Paint computer room 
3. Finish coating cabinets
4. Replace all cabinets
   
5. Change all light switch covers
6. Assemble the mailbox
7. New flooring throughout
8. Paint basement entry walls
9. Install shelf under bathroom sink
10. Hang curtains in kitchen, bathroom, living room, and all bedrooms
    
11. Radon system to be installed
12. Drylock basement
13. Sensor light outside
14. Hang BB Wallpaper
    

Oh ... PACK our current house and MOVE it...

...and the big one... BREATHE!

Oh and as an aside, this house was not lived in for over 2 years and prior to that I believe it was an elderly gentleman who lived there so things were not updated
We love the structure of this home and knew with a lot of sweat equity we could have the house we wanted!