The Fabricius Family: August 2017

I have been waiting to get this post done!! To be honest with you, I wanted to have it posted on August 17 – buuut we all know how my life goes, right?

HAPPY SIX MONTHS to our little, yellow home! I can’t believe that it has literally been SIX months since we bought our little house!! When we first bought our house, the first thing we decided we had to do was paint. We were in an excellent situation where we could still live with grandma and grandpa, and paint the house. The colors of the house were definitely not my cup of tea. Everything was so dark! My first demand for Devin was to paint the ENTIRE HOUSE. We wanted neutral, light and bright! The color that we chose was “clay dust”. It’s so funny what different lighting can do to a paint color! Sometimes the color looks just like I want it to. Other times it looks peachy, then pink, then yellow. It’s so strange! Gratefully it looks good in the house either way.

When you walked in the front door, the first thing you saw was the dark brown wall. That had to go. To the left of the living room is the master, pink room (baby room) and bathroom. The bedroom was the worst, yet most rewarding experience! It was two-toned, red and tan, and the texturing was SO thick. The pink room is called the pink room (or we call it the baby room – nope, not pregnant!) because one of the walls in that bedroom was legitimately rose pink. Didn’t like that either! Devin suggested keeping it pink in case we have a girl first. Nope. I wanted neutral so that if we had a boy, I didn’t have to paint it then! The bathroom (and kitchen) had a dark brown wainscot in it. Did not like that either. I didn’t paint the wainscot in “clay dust”. I painted it a step up. The paint is called “Brazilian tan”. Just in case you didn’t realize, every room in our house got at least one coat of paint.

In the living room, there was a big leak above our fireplace and it caused the ceiling to sag. Thankfully my dad and Devin were able to fix it and patch it right up! We've spent the next couple of rain storms, trying to figure out how its coming down the chimney. Devin and Jedd got up on the roof and put some sort of roofing tape up there and we think we've got it sealed! (we have a metal roof..)

The back of the house has the kitchen, laundry room and one more bedroom (we call that bedroom the brown room). The kitchen was pretty much perfect. I had little to paint in there. (Mainly the wainscot) The people who owned the house before us put in brand new cabinets. Apparently, the old ones were black! The new cabinets make the kitchen feel soo much larger than what it really is! Plus, they are so beautiful! Our next door neighbor, he actually built them and installed them.

The laundry room was super dark. The brown that was in most of the house was all over in the laundry room. It’s the smallest room in the house, yet to me, it was the one that changed the most in the makeover. The brown room changed pretty drastically too. (Let’s be honest. The ENTIRE house changed drastically.) In both the brown room and the master room, there was this piece of wood that went right across the middle of all walls. Devin didn’t think we could take them down without there being some sort of noticeable line in the middle of the wall. Well, Devin and grandpa were painting the back room and grandpa accidently pulled one off. Yay for me! They looked just fine! So we took the wood off in both the brown room and the master.

The inside of the house wasn’t the only thing that needed some updating. There was a fireplace in the middle of the back yard. I’m not that into fires unless I’m camping. I knew for a fact that I was never going to use that thing – so out it came! We put sod in the little circle and it’s grown in beautifully! There was also a lot of leaves on the yard too that hadn’t been raked up the fall before. We spend a couple of our Saturdays raking the lawn to try and get it to come to life.

The other thing that has needed some work was the garden. There were TWO HUGE PATCHES of raspberries. Now I love me a good raspberry, but I know that two rows would have killed Devin and I. And boy was I right! Our raspberries this year produced more than what we could handle. Devin and I decided we should probably tear one of the rows out. Boy was I glad we did that!

Our little house has definitely come a long ways in the last six months. I can’t believe what a difference some paint can make. In case you missed out on what happened our first week of owning a home, you can find that here.

I’m extremely grateful for our house, and that we were in a good situation to buy it. D and I have already made lots of memories in this house, and we can’t wait to make many, many more.

House pictures below!