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House Update


It's week...well I don't even know right now since we closed on our house. We moved in about 3 months ago. We've had a lot going on, but for the most part its all been good things! Lately we've been working on:

1. Fixing a broken window in the basement

2. Working with the neighbor on the entire tree that fell into our yard during a storm


3. Electrician work: Rewiring of the fixtures in 2 bedrooms and a hallways for new fixtures, track lighting in the bedroom with switch (its the little things you take for granted... like having a light switch for your bedroom), moving the bathroom switch to the outside of the bathroom since the wall was put in, rewiring the front porch light so we didn't have to have the living room lights on in order for the porch light to work, making 8 of our outlets in the main rooms 3 prong outlets.

(before on the left, after on the right)
Our old light switch in the bathroom that was smooshed in a corner, and our new 3 prong outlets 

2 of our new fixtures in the bedrooms! 


4. New Garage Door. One thing we were less than crazy about when we bought the house, was that the prior owners decided a great idea was to cut a hole out of the garage and put in a mini fridge so that the patio could have cold drinks. Let's just say its not our style. The only perk though is it forced us to realize that it was time to put in a human sized door to our garage, so we had a more practical way to go in/out. This week we got that door put in! No more fridge!

(Our lovely before picture of our fridge in the garage)


(after)


5. Our Nursery. Our nursery is still very much in the process....so no final photos of that. But we have all the furniture we will need and a whole pile of decorations...we just haven't put it all together! 






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