Our $27,000 Home

Today, I have decided to start a blog

that follows the things that we

have done to our home.

In 1991 we bought our home for $27,000.

It was a mess with nothing to really love in it.

I had been going to house after house after house

for months.  My agent had to look at a house

to make sure things were ok at it, as there

had been many break-ins, and by the time

I went to look at it 

everything inside was gone.

No light fixtures, no appliances, no anything,
just walls and floors.

We pulled into the driveway 

and the driveway was full of weeds to my waist.

I really didn't know it was a driveway! until later when

I came back to look at it with Dana.

Oh, Dana is my better half, I'm Robin.

We walked through the home, it wasn't locked, and talked

about it's potential.  Then left, and I kept looking

at more homes.  

This same ugly worn out brown house kept coming into my

head.  It had been on the market for years, it was now

owned by the bank, and there had been many, many offers

on it but they never came to be.

I then went to the house and drew the floor plan on a

scratch piece of paper, looked at what could be

and started to work on a new improved floor plan.

Well, we bought the home.

We weren't sure if we were going to live in it or fix it up

and sell it.  At the time, we were renting a 4,000 sq ft

home at a killer deal, since rent was cheap, cheap, cheap

at the time, and so we didn't have to be quick.

We had a family council, and asked the kids what 

they wanted to do, fix up the house and move into it,

fix up the house and sell it then find a nicer house,

or what?

The consensus was, fix up this one,

and move into it.

Well, what a time we had,

and all the things we learned!

I will start sharing with you these fun, frustrating, and intense 

things we found after we bought our home, and 

as we started tearing out and rebuilding the each room 

into our home as we know it today.

Here it is, the house we bought,

the back side of the house.

I think we were working on the back deck 

in this photo.

Here is Dana, Josh, and Naomi.

The house was sun burnt on this side of the home,

but here is what we looked like when 

we bought our home.

Brown, simple, and in need of love.

For today,

Hugs,

Robin