Home Updates

I love our house.

Sugar Pop and I like to go look at open houses on Sunday afternoons. We particularly like going to open houses in our subdivision and the ones surrounding us. It is interesting to see what people have (or haven't) done to houses that were built about the same time (1966) as ours. I am always more grateful for my house when we do this. Our house is in great shape and there is no updating that would have to be done before someone could move in (if we had to put it on the market for some reason).

• The colors in our house are basically all neutral except for the master bedroom (it is a dark taupe) and the kitchen (that is sage green).
• The carpet is a light tan (the color is called antler).
• When we got the new carpet in 2006, we also had the old marble tile in the entry way removed and replaced it with something "slate" looking.
• We have laminate floors in the office, kitchen, dining, and sunroom.
• We added a sunroom in 2002 and did in very nicely - foundation poured to the same height as the rest of the house, it is bricked in and the roof was existing over the back patio so there is no weird flat roof thing happening that is so common with add-ons.
• At the time we did the sunroom, we added french doors from it to the master bedroom changing the entrance to the bedroom and creating a new walk-in closet where the original entrance had been.
• In 2004, we completed gutted the master bath. It is still a small bathroom but is updated and feels bigger because we put in a glass shower instead of the walled in shower.
• This year we updated the kitchen.
• We got new windows and siding in 2004.
• New front door in 2004.
• The air conditioner and furnace were replaced in 2005. The blower used to be in the hall closet, but at that time we had it moved to the attic - greatly reducing how much you could hear it running in the living room.
• The hot water heater was replaced in 2005.
• We had a lot of point-up work done on the brick in 2004, when we re-did the masterbath.
• We replaced the window in the garage with glass block in 2004.
• New toilet in hall bath in 2006.

Things I would still like to do:

• Replace the wooden top of the built-in desk in my office with a laminate top that matches the kitchen.
• Re-do the guest bathroom - remove wall paper, texture walls, remove furdown above mirror, new light fixture.
• Paint the inside of the laundry closet. (Done!)
• Take the popcorn of the ceiling in the living room and texture it.
• Replace interior doors and/or door knobs.
• Change entryway light fixture.