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We Bought a House! Tour the Before!

Hi friends!!

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog, you know that we were in the process of selling our home and starting over. Well, we bought a new house!! I actually gave my facebook group a tour of it months ago, but if you haven’t joined the group yet then you may not have seen it!! So today I’m sharing with you the entire, gross, dismal before of our home! We’ve already made some major, major improvements which I’m so excited to share with you! But today is all about the before! So shall we get to it?

Here’s the front of the house. This is already after we put a new roof, new gutters, and a new door. But you get the idea.

Entryway and Living Room

when you first walked into the house, you ran into a gigantic closet. It completely made the living space super weird, plus there was a huge leak on the inside from the holes in the roof. Yea, we picked a good one. Can you already tell my distain for this closet? I’m happy to announce it didn’t live there for much longer. Those walls were the first thing I kicked in!

 

This is the living room, with the original tile flooring. It’s probably asbestos. and it smells really great, sorta like 50 year old dirt and cat pee. I wish bath and body works would make a candle with those scents. Take note of the bad drywall patch job on the right of the photo. That was covering an active roof leak. Thumbs up for doing things the right way.

The lovely fireplace is a phony. It’s a glorified litter box at this point. There was no way I was keeping that thing, even though my tender heart was telling me not to get rid of it. Right now you’re looking into the dining and kitchen area from the front of the house. Brian is looking out through the doorwall that doesn’t open.

 

Here’s a shot of the front door and closet. Oh, and another leaky roof patch!

 

And here’s a panoramic for ya

 

Kitchen and Dining

This is where it gets really fun! Mostly everything in this kitchen is original. And not in a good way. I only wish this was a mint condition mid century kitchen, but sadly its not. The floor was coming up in places, the cabinets were falling apart and rotting inside, the ceiling was leaking, the doorwall didn’t even open. The list goes on and on. It wasn’t that way for very long though. As soon as I had the chance that was all torn out! Even the wall.

 

First thing we did was tear out the closet and pull up the floors! And it was a huge improvement!

 

Here’s a video tour of the rest of the house, including some progress after these photos were taken!

https://www.theweatheredfox.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/16340780_1549335741762594_8535279067279130624_n.mp4

Don’t forget to join the Facebook Group if you want home tours before anyone else! It’s a fun place to be!

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Trilevel Turd Update, and How to Remove a Load Bearing Wall - The Weathered Fox June 26, 2017 - 2:32 pm

[…] about this house in its current state. ???? But I am happy to say that this house is growing on me. You can tour the before and see a video update in this post. I’m finally seeing the vision I had in my head when we decided to buy the house. This […]

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How to Hide an Air Conditioning Unit - The Weathered Fox June 19, 2017 - 9:55 am

[…] we bought this house, I almost instantly had second thoughts. It was gross.  I gave a tour of our house in this post. There was nothing pretty about it, nothing had been updated or maintained in decades. And it was […]

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Tammy June 14, 2017 - 5:19 pm

I’m looking for the guy who rolled the ceiling tiles out of old tin for Joanna Gaines. I don’t know what episode of Fixer Upper it was but they took him corrugated tin which he rolled “flat”. He then put it in a press and pressed the most amazing ceiling tiles. I cannot find any reference to him on the internet. Would love to drive a load of tin to him for new ceiling in my house!!!!

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The Weathered Fox June 19, 2017 - 9:56 am

Do you live in the Waco area?

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