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The kitchen that started the chaos

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                                                               The Kitchen * I had typed out this whole entire blog post and then went to go finish it and IT WAS ALL GONE. the first sentence fits how everything about this went...UGHHHHHHHH!!!** Alright, this kitchen. Ugh....  The kitchen was the first initial response to causing chaos. When we were walking through the house before we bought it I could see how its open concept could really help make this place feel more spacious and how when we updated it, it would make more sense with this houses layout. At that point it had this awful red-maroon fake brick that matched the fireplace on the other side of the house and it made the kitchen look like dungeon. It had dark oak cabinets and beaten down vinyl floors completed that look and all in all we figured it would be easy to update some back splash and maybe just add some new paint to the walls and worry about floors later. I mean if that was all that needed to be done...Pfff

The House: Story

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   If you have read my other blog, you probably have heard a little bit about this little nightmare. I am just going to be completely honest here. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE.    In 2017 My husband and I decided "hey why don't we just buy a house?"  yea, why don't we? We acted on our little idea right away just to see if we even qualified. Well we did. We were so excited, after being stuck in an apartment with a kelpie, who had potty training issues and built up energy that we couldn't ever keep up on. It was a new adventure that was such a big accomplishment and something neither of us knew anything about. That was our fist mistake...WE DID NOT RESEARCH. We didn't familiarize ourselves with any of it, found a Realtor and stuck with him. Then went on this journey they call house hunting... Here is the thing. We hunted. Like I mean we looked for houses everywhere. We searched and traveled to find the perfect house for about 2 months straight. We were living right ou