A Little Bit About Pinteresting DIY. .

We are building a new house. YAY! I'm so excited even though we are only 8 days into the build I'm super excited!

Because we are building a new house, we must sell the house we are in now and in no way will we rent to strangers. 

We've been here for 14 years and I told my husband that we aren't going to make it to 15 yrs because I am so tired of how small it is and we've been here too long. Originally, we moved in after my husband graduated college and I was pregnant with our first child. We had both agreed that we would only be in the house for 5 years. Three years later, our 2nd child came along and with her being in the NICU with several medical problems, many surgeries and 9 weeks in the NICU, we had a whole lot of stress and medical bills so we promised only 5 more years. The market tanked in 4 years later and the company that my husband worked for closed the doors. Thank goodness, he had gone a month later and got a business license so that very morning he came home and told me the company no longer exists,and with business license in hand, we set up an office in the home. I guess he was ready to leave too so as soon as my broken ankle healed from playing dart tag. That was fun to play but not the trip to the ER.   

Throughout the 14 years we've been here, we've done some improvements such as painting, putting up a chair rail, wainscoting, ripping out the cheap carpet and laminate flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms that was in the house when we bought it and putting down laminate hardwood throughout the house and vinyl tile in the kitchen and bathrooms, adding to the back patio, putting in a couple raised garden beds and a firepit but those are things that every house has that few people take notice of. We decided to save money and update the 'dated' features in the house that is no longer 'popular'. By doing these simple improvements to 'update' the house to be more 'sellable' we figured that saving money by doing DIY projects was important to us because we're only going to be living here for 4 more months. 

Now that summer break is over, I'll be posting these projects as I do them. Enjoy!