The Big Reveal

 So I told you when my house was done I'd show you the before and after photos. 

I still have things to do , making decisions on what I want to do with the trim, paint, or stain or leave it. I need to organize more once I get a feel for where I want stuff so I might just take the winter to decide all that.  This has been some journey and I admit cost a lot more than I was expecting but grateful that after selling our house in Eden I had the money left over to fund this endeavor.  Once again like last winter I'm looking forward to reading, watching movies , going to the gym and starting my business "Mrs Captains Place" back up again after the holidays. Oh and baking! I can't wait!

I'm going to post all the before photos and you will see why I never showed you any of them! Only a few people actually saw what it looked like when I moved in. The fellow who lived here never cleaned or evidently didn't know how to use a wood stove or build things.

This was the one part that was still garage and would become my bedroom

The chickens lived in here and you had to walk through here to get in the house and yes 

behind that window on the right was my bedroom and the window is now on the

chicken coop.

This door led to my living space

Looking back through the chicken space to the main door through the garage

This was my kitchen, luckily the fridge worked ( still had plastic on it ) the gas stove wasn't hitched up to anything , wood stove was actually set up on wood blocks....everthing was covered in black soot.

Looking back into the livingroom the door there leads to the sunroom 10' wide 

ha ha this was the bathroom with a shower/tub that I wouldn't even consider using, the propane heater didn't work either...

this is standing in my bedroom looking towards the kitchen.

My bedroom.

AND NOW!!!

sunroom- i'm going to insulate the floor this week.

standing in the doorway of my bedroom, looking into my great room.

inside my bedroom.

the other view of my bedroom/ office

My bathroom

my amazing shower

standing in the sunroom door into the great room.

same spot looking towards the kitchen

Kitchen sink area

plenty of space for all I need.

Just a few things left to do but I'm so very happy and I love it. :)

 

Wow a BIG step!

 Yesterday was a huge step in my progress here, so very emotional as well!  A friend offered to take my camper after I mentioned I just wanted to give it away. It had served its purpose and had enough things wrong with it that I didn't want to deal with the open market for it.  Yesterday reminded me of my journey , buying the property, buying the camper thinking I wouldn't want to live inside the "house" until it was renovated, selling my house in Eden, moving into the little house here realizing if I wanted running water I was going to need to keep the house warm so why heat the house and the camper? Left the camper at my daughters place for the winter and moved it up here in ...April ? I think  , moved in and my son in law and granddaughter came up to start ripping apart the inside of my future home. Its been a whirlwind ever since!  

    Yesterday brought some of the end of that journey closer,  When my friend came to take the camper I had already told him that the guy who moved it before had broken something that makes the camper elevate and he had just used a jack and blocks to raise and lower it. My friends hitch is much higher and in a higher truck so he wasn't sure that method was going to work....safely.  Course my stomach was in knots worrying that I would be stuck with a camper forever...but luckily my friend is a "plumber" so knows pipes really well and went to work fixing the broken piece and a couple hours later, I was filming it leaving.  Yep, I cried with relief!  I can finally see my little house !  

     The next couple of days the inside will be finished with the exception of a little more painting i'll need to do but soon I'll show you the before and afters....:) But here is the before and after of the OUTSIDE..:)

This is how she looked the first time I went to see it,  my property is .78 of an acre which is perfect and a mile from my daughter and her wonderful family which is perfect again, I love my neighbors they are all so very nice , 

This is the view I've been looking at since April , lots of people say they didn't even know there was a house there! 

I look forward to my future  here...

My contractor is going to take a couple dump runs for me when he finishes inside which will be in the next couple days.   I plan on a few elevated garden beds in my front yard for growing veggies and I'm going to move my firepit towards the middle of the yard so I can have my flower gardens on the bank where it is now.  Today I'm getting a couple cedar posts to finish the fence ..:)