The Little House That Could

YouTube DIY

 

Old Houses.

 

I. Love. Them.

 

It may actually be a bit of an issue.

Seeing an old house slowly deteriorate and fall to its knees just makes me sad.

 

Old homes carry with them so much heart, so much history, so many memories.  Letting them fall apart just seems like all those things will be forgotten.  In a generation or two somebody might not remember that the house was ever even there.

 

So.........

there is this house.

 

A lonely, little, forgotten, falling apart,

abandoned by it's last owners, in need of some serious love, house.

 

Michael has always wanted to try owning a rental property.

I have always been completely uninterested in this endeavor.  The whole prospect of it just seemed a little too daunting for me.

 

But then...

This little house came along.

 

 

In need of help.

Serious. Help.

 

It still had such good bones.

But in the hands of the wrong person,

it was about to crumble.

 

So I caved.

I agreed.

Let's fix it up and we can try this rental thing.

 

How in the world do you have time to fix up another house?
I have been asked this question a hundred times.

The Answer.

 

We Don't.

 

That is why it has taken us the better part of 6 months to fix it all up. 

 

Little by little.

Hour by hour.

Weekend by weekend.

We have tried to revive a little life back into

this little house.

 

And it is nearly done.

 

HALLELUJAH!!

 

I say we, but really Michael has done most of it.

I'm pretty handy with a paintbrush, but the major stuff is in no way my department.

 

With Michael's limited experience in DIY, it is fair to say that I was a bit skeptical of his ability to do some of the projects he had in mind.

 

ALL of the carpet in this house had to go.

Let's just say that the animals had had their way with the place and the owners were obviously smokers with little interest in taking the party outside.

Ewwwwww.

 

Underneath the carpets were the original pine wood floors, but they looked ROUGH. 

Rough. Rough.

 

I did not think he could pull it off.

But he did.

And they look pretty darn good now.

It would take me HOURS to list all the projects and setbacks that led into more projects and tiny little achievements that occurred in this house.

 

If Google and YouTube get paid for every hit that happens on their sites then we have sufficiently kept a large sub-division of those companies in business.

 

There is not a wall or a floor in this house that didn't need to be loved.

 

And so we did.

 

We started here.
(Note that if you look hard enough you can see the outline of where the old owners pictures use to hang due to the large amount of yuck and ewwww clinging to the walls. Those are not shadows people.)

 

 

 

And Googled and YouTubed our way to here.

:) 

 

And perhaps, just perhaps, one more generation

will remember that this house stood.

 

Happy Renovating.