Homeowners!

We successfully closed on our new home this morning- started signing papers promptly at 9am and we were in the car on our way to "our house" by 10:10! We took a quick look through the house with our painter and he was going to begin the cosmetic transformation that day! We can't wait to visit in a day or two when he's just about finished. We will officially move in, or sleep in, the house next weekend, Memorial Weekend 2010. We thought that would be a good way to remember when we moved in.
So Cheers to us! We have a long summer of project ahead of us to make this house our home. We'll post updates as we work. For now, here are some "before" photos. I realized when I posted these I literally left out an entire section of the home which includes the porch, family room, playroom and mudroom, so you'll just have to wait to see those at another time.

Front portion of home, to the left is the garage

Random lawn shot.
From the screened porch looking to part of the backyard.

Wanted to see the backsplash and counter tops.

Backyard.

Formal living room.

Lovely double garage....but wait, there's more....

....and a 3rd stall! STORAGE!

Future home of "John's Bar" after we get it built.

Basement, aka, Man Cave.

Basement guest room (Nana and Papa's Pad)

Our brand new water heater.

Madeline's new room. Soon to be purple paradise!

New baby's room...soon to be lovely shades of yellow. Girls' bathroom.

Master bedroom, sweet.