1 0 Y E A R S : L I V I N G R O O M

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i dont have any 'good' photos of the living room for the 'before'. really the only before shots i have are of when we saw our house when the agent brought us to see it...pre i-phone days. the owners were divorced and battled over selling and an example of how little they cared about selling it: there was a woman in the living room smoking a cigarette while holding a baby. anyway...i'm thinking other people who saw it couldn't envision how awesome it could be...they couldn't see past the filth (or through the cig smoke).

from the middle looking towards the back

from the middle looking towards the front

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G E T T I N G G R A S S Y

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now that we have a little one i cant help but think it would be nice to lay around and play in the yard with her....with all of the stone it makes for a not so comfy place for kiddies. our yard is always evolving and it's fairly 'easy' to replace some bluestones with some sod. we're keeping an organic shape just toward the middle of the yard, just pulling up the stone in that area, storing it, and amending the soil  for laying sod. finding sod around here is actually the hardest part. we're stuck with home depot sod since we only need a small amount...it's just hard to get it before it's all gone!

passed over scraps at the HD

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1 0 Y E A R S : Y A R D

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here's some pretty scary photos of what our yard looked like when we first saw this house...and the afters. over the next few weeks i'm hoping to post some of the original photos from the open house (you'll see how visionary we really were ;-) and where that space is no. in those early days just cleaning a bit  was a vast improvement. stay tuned!

yard with creepy, sketchy, potentially disease-ridden swimming pool : before

yard with bluestone patio, custom shed, flowering cherry tree, gorgeous plants & shrubs
 and new stained fence : after

horrifying back of the house : before

fresh and clean back of the house : after

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1 0 Y E A R S ?

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hard to believe but this week we celebrate our 10th year in our house! how is that possible?!
in an upcoming post i'll do a little before and after....fun!

our house in 2004 ... probably a month after we had moved in

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