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Home improvements part 1

Well, we have been moved into our new house for about a month now! I love it! I love having somewhere to call home, I love having something that is ours, I love being able to do what we want to it and I love that we are across the street from target .
It seems like everytime we start a project it turns into a way bigger project than we thought it would be. Fun, but expensive and time consuming. Justin is currently tiling the guest bathroom shower and is preparing to replace the plumbing throughout the house.

I have been so excited for fall because it cools down, my house always smells like pumpkin scentsy, hot cocoa, crock pot meals, and cute decorations of course! So since tomorrow is the first official day of fall, I decided I better get my fire place finished and the mantel decorated.

I wanted to take off that ugly old paneling above the fireplace, but behind that huge mirror was some random pieces of plywood nailed to the wall. So I took those off thinking there would be dry wall behind it. Nope! Of course there wasnt. The plywood was literally covering the brick from the chimney. Dang hippies and their weird architecture in the 60's!

So I decided to put paintable wallpaper over the whole paneling and paint over it white. It's pretty cool stuff! $20 for a big roll at lowes, home depot, target, wherever. It comes in different designs and textures.

I painted over the brick on the fireplace in white milk paint and oiled it with hemp oil to bring out the dimension in the brick. I also painted the back of the shelving in charcoal gray and they rest of the shelves white. The pellet stove was spray painted in a black high heat spray paint.

I've been pretty busy with ava, this new house and being a health coach for Beachbody. But it is fun stuff I tell ya! I wouldn't have it any other way!

Remember this before picture???? Yikes!!

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We bought a house!

As most of you probably know already, we bought a house! We have been renting since moving to Twin Falls since we weren't sure how long we would be here for. When Justin took the job offer in the Twin Falls ICU we knew we would be here for at least a few more years before we take off to Anesthesia school and thought we might as well put our money into something that is going to benefit us rather than throw it into rent for a house that isn't ours. Our plan is to either sell it for more than what we paid for (it was a foreclosure so we got a pretty good deal on it) and pay for anesthesia school. Or rent it out while we are away. We would love to keep it while we are in anesthesia school and eventually move back afterwards if Justin could get a job in the Twin Falls hospital again.
So like i said, the house was a forclosure. Which means lots of unknown history! Yikes. It came without air conditioning, luckily fall is just around the corner and we can live without it. We have to replace plumbing pipes due to corrosion in the old metal piping. FUN. After ripping out carpet in the basement that was full of cat pee, disgusting i know, it smells a lot better but we found some forest green paint over the cement that we weren't anticipating. We would love to strip the paint and stain with an epoxy seal over the top. It's a good thing we will be here for a few more years to work on lots of projects in the house and hopefully increase the value of it. It needs a LOT of work but we fell in love with it as soon as we walked through it. I'm excited to share lots of "before" and "after" photos with you all of our projects!