Personal Narrative: Our First Home

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Come on in and take a look at what our OLD HOME first looked like and the after. Basically, lets take a time machine back to the 70 's which was probably the last time the house was updated.
Front of the house before:
The front of the house is a bit dated and had a huge tree that had rotted down to its roots, and would poss issues as its large branches were resting on the roof of the first floor. This made us nervous, because one big rainstorm, we felt it could fall on our house. Previous owners had closed off what could of been the porch and made an extra room (this extra room was their sun-room, aka our office).

Front of the house after:

Living Room before:
The living room is the first room you walk into, decent size space, but no wall
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Master bedroom before:
Basically everything was redone.

Master bedroom after:
Now if you read in our "Our First Home" section of the site, we mentioned what requirements the house we purchased must have. Allow us to remind you, Jimmy wanted a two car detached garage and in our town it can be difficult to find such a property. Basically slim pickings, but we found one. So with that said Barbara, requested a dressing room, yes you read correctly a DRESSING ROOM. (will be uploading updated pictures) We took one of the extra bedrooms and made it into the dressing room/closet.
Main Paint color: Revere Pewter (FUN FACT: Revere Pewter is such an awesome transitional color it picks up on other colors in the room. Basically, that means for you every room it can look different!)
Accent color: Kendall Charcoal Benjamin Moore
Spare Bedroom before:
Basically everything was redone. Spare Bedroom after:
We made the closet taller to fully utilize every square inch to the max. As you can see we made all the bedroom doors, bathroom doors and linen closet doors Behr black suede. It literally changed the entire look of the second

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