Get this House SOLD!

Did I mention my husband and I are the least handy-people I know?  I wish I could be one of those bloggers that gave out amazing-how-to-replace-a-fan-in-one-step-in-an-hour-for-five-dollars, but unfortunately that's not me.  We are more like here's how we fix things, it turned out all wrong, and now we have to hire a professional to fix it.  This is kind of like a "what not to do" blog.

For example, our sink was leaking the other day and my husband decided to "fix" it.  He worked on it for a while then came to tell me we just needed a new sink.   When I went to check out the situation, the sink was in quite a few pieces. I then realized he had no idea how to put it back together and decided that he would just go buy a new one and have someone install it.  Typical.

Anyway, we are in our starter house we bought a little over 5 years ago.  I have loved it because it's where I have brought home and am raising my three babies.  It's got a great backyard and it's in a great school district.  But it's feeling slightly (majorly) cramped with the five of us and it is TIME TO GO!  I am on a mission.

That being said, there are still quite a few things that need to be fixed.  Such as the fans, as you see are that lovely bronze that people on House Hunters scoff at (and if you look closely you will see the popcorn ceilings too....) and have missing parts.  Some of our door handles are gold, some are missing (don't even remember how that happened.  I think our then 2 year old locked herself in there and couldn't get out so we took everything apart).

 

Not to mention we need to power-wash our exterior, basically gut an entire bathroom, paint, clean, replace the dishwasher (and yes the sink too), among many other things such as clean out our one car garage that has become our very unorganized storage room.  We've never been able to park a car in there!!!

On a good note, we have built a deck, replaced the oven, water heater, and roof, replaced the floor in the master, and taken down the popcorn ceilings in two rooms (an adventure my husband embarked on that was the worst several weeks in history, we don't even bring it up at all ever).  So while we have a lot of work to go, at least we have accomplished some major fixes along the way!

My whole idea here is to put it on paper.  Make it real.  Inspire us to get all these small projects that seem so daunting DONE so we can put this baby on the market.

First up:  The Sink.  Which is this weekend's goal.  Will let you know how it goes!