We still can't believe how lucky we are, how much we love our house, and how smooth this process has been. I think i said "I love it here" about 5 times a day over the weekend. J is probably sick of it, though he agrees too. We were chatting with someone over the weekend that has been looking for 10 months in mpls, has put in 6 offers, 4 were beat and 2 were retracted because of inspection. WUT?! How are we so blessed!
I can't remember if I have documented the moments we decided our house could be the one, so I want to make sure I have it somewhere. We had the night set up to just look at one house with Ben, and he had added a couple extra just to make the night worth it. I remember that afternoon, J saying, should we maybe skip the red door house? And I said, well it's not screaming at me, but we might as well go, it's really close to the others.
We got there, and it wasn't like OMG THIS IS IT, like everyone said it would be. But as I walked through it I remember thinking whoa, this is comfy. and I LIKE this. Ben had said a comment like I wasn't sure about this from the photos, but I like it more in person. I wish I had the walk through filmed, because I can't remember exactly all the feelings. But we walked out with good feels, it wasn't really on J's radar like it was mine. One things for sure - I LOVED that the family had obviously made a home there. To this day I think that's what sold me. And the layout of the living room and kitchen, which J and I both have the theory that our parents homes were like that so we are attracted to it. We went to the next house, which was very different but awesome in it's own right. It was a flipper and had a little bit too much work for my taste (mint house). So we kept going back to - well I like red door better. J really liked mint and I remember us talking about it heavily that night. I didn't want to regret missing a house like mint, but my instincts really screamed no to it. I couldn't explain why. Ultimately I had to ask J to trust me and trust my intuition. And then we started seriously talking about red door. Of course it was CRAZY intimidating. We thought the house would be obvious like everyone said...so we decided since there was an open house the next day, we should see what our moms think. One of our hesitations was that there were no other offers or interest - that made us nervous given the status of the market. Why didn't' anyone see what we saw? Now I believe that was destiny and it was meant to be ours:)
So our moms met us the next day and LOVED IT. We told them to keep their cool and they would secretly steal glances at each other and mouth THIS IS IT. THEY NEED THIS HOUSE. From there we made and offer - but yes of course I had SO many hesitations back and forth back and forth. J says it's because I wasn't sure, but of course I wasn't! But I would have done that with any house.
And the rest is history.
Any who! Our progression so far is
-Finished the last coat of primer on the cabinet doors and frames, next up "color"! (2 on each side)
-Granite was put in! BAH!!! It's so beautiful! I cannot WAIT to see everything come together
-Plumber came by to put our faucet and disposal in - YAY!
-Another IKEA run, and I put together a display cabinet for dining room and buffet table for entryway
-Re-drilled the window treatments in dining room. They were not anchored so I tried my best to anchor them into the plaster. It went OK! But the result is complete so that's good. This whole plaster thing is a learning opp for sure.
-Bought white subway tile, grout and corner trim for backsplash!
SO.FREAKING.EXCITED.
And here's the counter before and afters! Not every angle has a before but there are 3 afters!
WITH GRANITE!
WITH GRANITE!!!
WITH GRANITE!
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