living the miller high life: house renovations (9 months later).

When we first looked at this townhouse, we knew right away it had a lot of potential. Darin and I have the exact same style when it comes to houses and decorations- we knew we could get everything we wanted in this house. We put in an offer and got into a bidding war with another buyer... and unfortunately they ended up winning. We looked at more houses and were totally bummed we missed out on the one we fell in love with. A couple of weeks later, our realtor called us because the other buyer's loan didn't go through and the owners wanted to offer the house to us before putting it back on the market. We were SO excited and immediately put in our offer. A month later we were signing the papers and officially bought our first home together.

Luckily, we had 4 weeks of overlap with the apartment & house, giving us plenty of time to paint, replace flooring etc. Darin and I are not exactly contractors, so everything was a new adventure... buying tools, learning how to paint, replacing fixtures etc. It was a lot of fun and it was also a pain in the butt. Thankfully we had family that came up and helped us tear out tile, replace all of the lighting & take care of Henry. I wanted to replace EVERYTHING. New lights, new door handles, new outlets, new appliances, new floors, new paint, new baseboards... you name it and I wanted it to be brand spanking new. This became overwhelming and we spent a lot of very late evenings working on the house while poor Henry slept in an empty bedroom so we could work. We had tons of snags along the way, but I cannot even believe the difference we made. It is so rewarding to look back on the old photos and then look around the living room to see what our hard work, sweat and tears did.

We are almost done with everything... I plan to paint the kitchen cabinets and the third bedroom & laundry room still need fresh paint and decor. Those will have to wait b/c we are a little worn out!

Some of the photos might not look great... I took them from the realtor website. Most are pics I took though :)

Living Room - BEFORE...