DIY How We Sold Our House inward a Week (and the in conclusion identify tour)!

Hey y'all!
I receive got bully news! The morning time after I wrote lastly week's post, nosotros got an offering on our habitation together with it is at nowadays nether contract! Thank you for all of your good wishes together with encouragement. I genuinely appreciate it thus much! If you've been next along, you know that things receive got been a picayune crazy, amongst us buying our adjacent fixer upper together with selling our electrical flow solid all inwards precisely a few brusque weeks.

After posting this moving-picture demonstrate together with announcing our solid was for sale lastly week, I got a lot of questions.  Several of you asked why nosotros would piece of occupation thus difficult on this solid together with finally complete it, solely to sell it a yr later. Well, I never talked nigh whatever of our long term plans on the blog, precisely because I didn't know how things would piece of occupation out, together with also because fifty-fifty though nosotros ever knew nosotros would sell this home, nosotros didn't receive got a strict timeline inwards mind. But, after Ava was born (and after nosotros got through the vi months of colic) together with the solid was finished, it precisely felt similar the correct fourth dimension to displace forwards amongst our plan. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 picayune backstory. 

When nosotros get-go bought this solid vi years ago, nosotros knew it wasn't our forever home. It was our get-go home. It was the solely habitation nosotros could afford at the time, unless nosotros wanted something a lot smaller amongst no yard. It was lead from the 1970's together with totally outdated, but nosotros were able to purchase it for actually cheap. And I hateful REALLY cheap. It had thus much potential together with I knew that nosotros could instruct inwards something exceptional over time, actually relish living inwards it for awhile, together with and thus hopefully sell it for a profit. I'm non actually certain why I catch that, equally I had never done whatever sort of renovating before, together with I knew zip nigh existent estate, but I'm glad I believed inwards us together with this house.

There were honestly times over the past times vi years where I felt similar I had bitten off to a greater extent than than I could chew, but nosotros persevered through it together with eventually finished what I had envisioned for this habitation all along.

So, before this year, Jesse together with I began to experience similar it was fourth dimension to displace on. We began actively looking for our adjacent project, something amongst tons of potential that needed a lot of work. Basically, nosotros were looking for some other fixer upper inwards a dissimilar expanse of Knoxville, closer to my family. It took us almost vi months of searching, but eventually we ended upwards finding i inwards our dream location (on five acres!!) together with purchased it. As shortly equally nosotros had our novel solid nether contract, nosotros listed our electrical flow solid for sale. There was right away a lot of involvement inwards our home, together with it was a crazy calendar week amongst 2-3 showings a day, together with past times the cease of the week, the solid was nether contract, for nearly double what nosotros purchased it for vi years ago. So, I know it seems similar a crazy affair to do, to piece of occupation thus difficult on your habitation solely to sell it, but it precisely made feel for our family, both financially together with emotionally, together with nosotros are actually excited to displace on to the adjacent chapter of our story. 

Our adjacent fixer upper needs a lot of work. I'll live doing things I've never done before, similar kitchen together with bath renovations, together with I'm excited. It's in all probability going to live actually ugly for awhile, together with I tin almost guarantee I'm going to screw things upwards on occasion, but I conception to accept you guys along for the ride. Sometimes that's difficult to exercise because people tin live absolutely vicious when you portion the ugly stuff, but screw the trolls, let's precisely relish the journey, ugly together with all.  

Moving on amongst the story....I've never shared the outside of our solid before on the blog, generally for privacy reasons, but we're moving soon, thus feast your eyes on this terror.

I yell back this moving-picture demonstrate is from 2010, the twenty-four hours nosotros moved in.

When nosotros get-go bought the solid dorsum inwards 2010, it had been on the marketplace for over a yr together with had sat inwards foreclosure for years prior to that. So, it in all probability hadn't been occupied for 3-5 years. And you could tell. We definitely had our piece of occupation cutting out for us.

 And hither it is today, 2016, correct before nosotros listed it for sale a calendar week ago. I'm pretty thrilled amongst how much improve it looks.

We didn't exercise a lot to the exterior, but nosotros did precisely plenty to freshen it upwards together with instruct inwards await a picayune to a greater extent than updated (without having to pass tons of money). We gave the outside a fresh coat of pigment (Benjamin Moore Chelsea Gray), painted the cut down white, together with painted the front end door (Sherwin Williams Urbane Bronze). We updated all of the lighting, stained the deck to gibe the house, together with replaced the garage doors (The quondam garage doors didn't piece of occupation for the get-go 4.5 years nosotros lived here, together with permit me precisely tell you, best coin I ever spent on this house...the luxury of beingness able to force a push together with drive your automobile into your car-room!!!! I had no idea!!! Is this what the fancy people are doing?!?! Why did no i tell me?!!?). The landscaping was inwards actually bad shape when nosotros get-go moved in, but over fourth dimension Jesse obsessed over our grass until it became a beautiful cushiony grass pillow. Not certain he actually nailed it amongst the bushes, but whatever, he gets a i yard k human points for spending thus much fourth dimension out inwards the hot sun, loving on our picayune yard.

So, that's the exterior. We've spent a lot of fourth dimension inwards the yard amongst Ava recently, precisely crawling or thus inwards the grass together with enjoying all of our difficult work, together with I volition definitely miss spending fourth dimension out here. I'm thus excited to move past times this beauty on to the adjacent family. I promise they volition relish it equally much equally nosotros did.

And now,  I'll demonstrate you guys the pictures of the interior that nosotros used for our solid listing. The pictures turned out actually well, together with the lensman used a much wider lens than I have, thus I yell back this makes for a bully lastly solid tour of this house. You'll in all probability instruct a improve feel of what the solid actually looks like, much improve than I was ever able to furnish you with!


Dining room:

Entryway:

Kitchen:

I give away picayune bottles of sparkling H2O (I've never drank it inwards my life.), took all my bass fish magnets off the refrigerator (hehe), spot a giant bowl of apples on the table, together with opened a cookbook to a colorful page for the showings. I experience similar the details brand all the difference. 

Living room:
I got rid of most of my pinkish for the showings (and I won't live going back...it's a novel day) together with opted for to a greater extent than blues together with greens or thus the house.

Guest bathroom:

Since nosotros moved Ava's crib dorsum into our sleeping accommodation long, long ago, nosotros staged her plant nursery equally a sleeping accommodation (with ii air mattresses together with some extra bedding I had on hand), thus that people could run into this room laid upwards equally a bedroom. It took me nigh an hour, but I actually yell back it helped the solid demonstrate a lot improve than if I had precisely left all of her infant junk together with toys laying on the the world (like it is inwards existent life). I mean, if they opened the closet, they yet got to run into the consummate infant gear debauchery, but hey, a daughter tin solely exercise thus much.

Office:

I honey how good the lensman captured the main bedroom. You guys receive got in all probability seen this sleeping accommodation a hundred times on this blog, but I've never been able to capture it this accurately. I volition miss this room thus much. Our novel main sleeping accommodation is nigh 1/3 of this size, but you can't receive got everything, girl.

 

I laid upwards the picayune side room amongst a loveseat together with styled it upwards amongst whatever I could honor inwards the house, together with I seriously got kinda mad at myself bc it turned into a cute, functional picayune infinite together with I was similar WHY did I never exercise this for the vi years nosotros lived here!? Such is life.

There's the side room. First fourth dimension it's ever been photographed good on my blog. This was the master copy main sleeping accommodation for this house, but they built on that huge add-on dorsum inwards the 80's. I never did instruct or thus to replacing that fan.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 peek into Ava's 'room'. Turns out that picayune nook inwards our sleeping accommodation served a bully purpose afterall!

Master bathroom:

Entryway downward into the basement living room:

Basement living room:

Basement bathroom:

Basement bedroom:

And that, friends, is the lastly solid tour of this solid we've loved thus much for the past times vi years. I'm pretty proud of our piece of occupation hither together with I'm thus thankful that I got to portion it amongst all of you on this blog. It's been a actually amazing constituent of my life.

In other news, Ava turns i tomorrow!!! We volition live taking her to exercise her favorite activity, swimming, together with I bought her a picayune cake to nail her hands or thus in. :)

Here are a duet pics from Father's day. Jesse wanted to pass the twenty-four hours at the lake, together with thus nosotros did. 

We lasted nigh thirty minutes together with ended upwards at a lakeside restaurant, but it was yet an amazing day. Splashing or thus inwards the shallow cease (and earthworks inwards the sand) amongst her dad past times her side is Ava's favorite activity, together with Jesse seems to relish it, too. :)

Thanks for beingness here, y'all. We'll live closing on our novel solid early on adjacent calendar week together with hopefully closing the sale on our electrical flow solid inwards precisely a few weeks. So, want us luck! Time to honor some movers. 

P.S. Because I tin solely fit thus much inwards i post, if you desire to run into the before pics of the house, instruct to this post.

'Til adjacent time.

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