The First Month: Part 1

Over the next few posts, I'll take you through what happened in the month between close and move in. As you saw last week, there was plenty to keep me busy! 

First step: dumpster

30 feet long and in all her glory.

I started my home renovation journey, as many do, by taking a layer (or three... or seven...) off. Here's how that went.

In the kitchen, that meant just wallpaper.

Guys, that's a yellow wall.

The dining room seemed simple, with just one wall with fake wood paneling.

What we found underneath?

Look at that...

Wallpaper!

A close up:

In what we didn't know would be some major foreshadowing, we scraped off the wallpaper to find...

MORE wallpaper.

After hours upon hours of scraping off layers of wallpaper and paint, we finally had a bare wall.

The living room was also a major undertaking with the awful and out-of-place lava rock fireplace and shag carpet.

This, however, deserves it's own post. So I'll leave you with the one and only member of the household who voted to keep the shag (spoiler alert: she lost)