I've decided to start this blog over the summer, to document the putting-together of our new house... for those of you who already know us, pardon the explanatory materials, but for any folks who don't... my boyfriend and I are in the process of purchasing a Victorian home, built in 1840, and we are going to set about setting it up this summer. This, we think will be the house of our dreams and I wanted to chronicle the process of fixing it up and making it our home. We are certainly not contractors or professional decorators, but we are fairly handy and we both have a lot of creative ideas. I hope that if you are interested in what we are doing you will follow along and feel free to chime in with ideas and suggestions along the way.
Currently, we are still in the process of settling on the property. This house was a foreclosure and is now owned by Fannie Mae. This resulted in a lot of bureaucratic processes to get much of anything accomplished, and so we are currently beyond our initial settlement date and waiting on some critical plumbing work to be accomplished so we can get moving... we have learned that you just have to be patient (or pretend to be patient) and just allow the process to move at its slow pace. It's a tough thing for those who, maybe, prefer to be in control of things, but there's just nothing to be done about it. Our patience (or fake-patience) will pay off, however, when we have working plumbing that the bank paid for instead of us. I wanted to get this blog started in advance of us actually moving in, so it could really be a start to finish kind of thing.
For those of you that do know us already, I thought this might be the most efficient way to keep everyone up-to-date with what we're doing in the event that you don't get to come see us in person...
So to everyone reading this... welcome to our home!
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