A New Start

The Russell's (that's us) have purchased their first house in Riverside just a few blocks from 5 Points. Isn't it gorgeous!? It was an interesting and extremely stressful process to get through all of the paperwork, inspections, correspondence, and finally closing, but it was worth it.
The house itself was built in 1918, in the Craftsman Style. It has a brick pier foundation, 3 bedrooms and 1 bath. The living and dining rooms are divided by built-in wood shelving/posts. The kitchen is horrendous, but we'll remedy that eventually. There is a fenced rear yard for Eddie and we couldn't be happier! A special thanks goes out to all of our family who have helped out so much to make this possible. All of the shots we have right now are "before". I'll be posting some more photos soon of the "during" and eventually the "after". We're in the process of painting right now and hopefully, with a little grace from God, we'll be completely moved in by this Sunday.
As you can see the original color scheme left a lot to be desired. But the built-in shelves and the open plan made that a small thing to get over. This picture is from the living room looking towards the dining room. This is our bathroom. When we first went to look at the house I was immediately sold just by seeing the claw foot tub. Erin of course made me look at some of the other rooms...I kept coming back to the bathroom. :-)

And here is me about 1 1/2 hours after we finished signing a mountain of paperwork yanking out the "for sale" sign IN TRIUMPH!! :-) Erin laughed at me...not really anything new there.
But then, we had to take Erin's picture also. HAHA! She is so cute. Anyway, the house is all ours now. We are painting and filling in holes and cleaning and all that jazz. As soon as I can I'll post the "during" and "after" photos so everyone can compare. It's really going to look amazing when we get the walls painted. Already there is a huge difference in the amount of light that gets into the space. So stay tuned!

Ciao.