Sunday, April 6, 2008

what is this? VII now?

bedroom #2 - window to back yard and side yard.
Bedroom #1 (electrical on the outside of the walls) view of side yard and front (as seen below)
Mold problem #4. But it appears to be only on the curtains and not the walls or paint or window sill. Go figure.
view from back yard.
view from front/side.

fixer-upper VI

Absolute nastiness in the bathroom (sized 6X6 - hey it was built in 1948, that's how they did it back then!). I was saying I could just bleach the whole thing down but now that I'm looking at it, I think I will just buy a new toilet seat. gross....
more grossness. But I get to retile a bathroom! yay!!! :-) Yes, I've never done it before or I'm sure I wouldn't be so excited.
Mold #2 - bathroom ceiling. We'll have to add an exhaust fan.
stepping further back into bedroom #1 viewing the bathroom. Notice the door. :-)
Mold #3 is found in the sill of one of the basement windows. Sounds like we'lll need to dig down and add gravel to avoid this in the future. The lose piece of wood that was placed on top sure didn't help anything.


I took the time to make these pictures "large" to make sure you guys could appreciate all the nasty details. Not so you will think us fools for purchasing the place but so you will appreciate the change once we've done all the changes.

fixer-upper V

standing in kitchen looking into living room
standing in livingroom looking into kitchen and hallway/bedroom 2
ahh. Mold #1 You can see where we scratched at it to see if it was seeping in from the inner walls or the other way around. It appears to be superficial so getting rid of it shouldn't be a problem. Oh, it's in the livingroom closet (pictured below). Growing pot anyone?????
HUGE front window. Sure it's great, but you pay for an updated window in that space!!!!
The other big window. Looks out at the shed and basketball hoop which we apparently have (will have, we don't own it yet).

fixer-upper IV

Basement bedroom. It's the largest but it's the longest, running the whole width of the house. And I have a question for anyone who can answer it... how do you get a queen-sized bed baseboard into a basement ? I measured and the opening is 2'10"x5'4" at it's smallest part.
said bedroom
walk-in closet shares wall with bedroom. Debating on knocking a hole in the wall to make it a real walk-in.
kitchen again. I'll need some muscle pulling up that floor. I wonder what's beneath it. Wood maybe? There's hardwood in the rest of the house, but it wasn't the original wood floor.
they left their dirty (gross!!) gas stove.

fixer-upper III

View once you get down into the basement.
basement hallway.
utility/storage/laundry and future bathroom site
some retard cut a main support beam that holds up the upper floor. :-) so we'll have to fix that asap when we move in.
said utility, ect. room
Back view of the house. One broken window. Thank goodness our loan was approved as a limited paper/no apprasial loan or they would have required a lot of things to be fixed first and the bank we're dealing with probably would have said no. Then we would have to decide if WE would want to fix them or not without actually owning the property. I guess because we're getting the place so cheap they figure what we were told by the guys we had look at the place, "You could probably knock the house down and sell the land for what you're paying for the house."
Standing in the back, looking at the side yard. I want to put in a deck at some point.
Side door. Straight ahead is the kitchen that will be gutted (though I have plans for the top cabinets). On the right is the basement entrance.

Enter... the dungen.

fix-er-upper



Front yard has a pond that needs to be cleaned. Part of the fence is missing and part needs to be fixed.

I want to bring the fence forward so the side door and shed are fenced in as well. Oh, and it looks like we have a basketball hoop too. Okay, that too.
They yard is huge and I love it!!!! I think I want to change the fence though so we look less appealing to theives. the previous owners left some backyard stuff... older swing set, sand box, garden plot, tree and lots of open space. :-)