I've decided to chronicle our house ventures here. I know it's been a while since I've posted something and with our current developements in our home search I decided this would be a good place to document the progress we've seen and also look forward to the things God has for us in the near future.
Seven years ago we moved to Salt Lake City. We had one infant son at the time (Jack) and were totally new to everything, parenting, ministry, house buying, Salt Lake, etc. We lived downtown for three months while we searched for the right house to suit our needs. We rented an apartment sight unseen before we arrived, the landlord was the husband of one of my mom's high school friends, so he graciously gave us a month to month agreement. I look back now and see that he was happy just to have someone in habiting the dingy old apartment accross the street from the Dollar Tree. I started the house search right away. We fell into a routine, I look at the houses and weed out all the 'bad' ones, then Mark comes along and approves and we make an offer. I will tell you, some of the houses in our price range at the time were very scary...meth style, ghostly scary...We ended up bumping up our price range a bit. Anyway, after making two offers and both falling through becuase something was wrong with the house, we finally found this lovely little cottage:
Lovely? You say...Yes, it's so far from the other houses we saw you have no idea. Anyway, the following photos are before and after versions of each room. This is the result of 7 years of hard work, thanks to my Dad and Mom who would come for weeks at a time and help us with our bathrooms and kitchen and most recently our raised beds in the backyard.
Please, come in....
The Living Room, before:
and after...
more to come....
