Doors, doors, doors...

Today we made a visit to Franks Lumber - The Door Store, in Shoreline. We fell in love with several styles of doors, but these seem to be claiming a place in our hearts. The decision that needs to be made is do we A) choose a door that would be painted to match the trim and molding, or B) choose a door that would be stained to match the floors. We decided that the best route would be to wait until the floors, trim, and molding are complete to make the decision. That way we will have a better understanding of the statement and flow we would like the hallway to have. Have a look at our favorite finds.

To be painted to match the trim and molding:

To be stained to match the new floors:

Silver Oak floor stain

Isn't she gorgeous!!!!!!!! Our hardwoods need refinishing before the move in (well I guess "need" isn't exactly true for the entire house, but it is for the bedrooms). Seattle Floors is coming out on Tuesday for our on site estimate. After the estimate we will schedule an appointment at the showroom to chose our stain. I am really loving these silver toned floors. LOVE THEM!!!!!!

Silver Oak: Relaxing. Beach getaway. Self indulgence. Earthy.

Graphite: Stunning. Romantic. Lovely.

YUM!!!!!!!!!!

Daily dose of inspiration #8

I give you Maddie, playing in her new back yard for the first time!!! It's not a great photo, it was actually meant to be of the yard, but I managed to capture her and the neighbor kids playing. Looking at her out there is such a wonderful reminder of why all of the hard work (loan apps, debt payments, house hunting) is so worth it. I cannot wait to move in!!!!

The packing has begun

Our property manager asked that we allow him to come in on Monday to take pictures for the rental posting. We of course agreed since they have been so cooperative with our move (we are breaking our lease). I decided that staging the house for photos was a waste of our time and it would be better to use that time to pack. We have been super productive this weekend and the packing is really moving along. Unfortunately... packing makes your home messy. Oh well. At least we are using our time wisely.

WEST SEATTLE HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!

On a whim, before submitting our counter offer on Friday, we drove by a house that went on the market Friday morning. While sitting at dinner we gave our agent a call and asked if we could take a look at it Saturday morning. She was unavailable Saturday but happy to take us as soon as we we done eating. We met Dena at her office in Eastlake and off we went. The moment we walked in to the living room, we new it was the "one". A gut feeling. After poking around and making note of all the wonderful improvement we could make, we went back to Dena's office and she wrote up an offer.

Saturday morning our offer was submitted. This afternoon, our offer was ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!! We are set to close on October 14th which gives us 15 day to refinish the hardwood floors (yeah for no carpet!), paint the walls, put up the crown molding & wanescoating (they are freshly painted, but freshly painted stark white), and anything and everything else you can think of.

So excited!!!!!!!!!

House Stats:
3 bedroom
1 bath
Living Room
Dining Room
Galley Kitchen with window looking out in to the backyard
Mud Room complete with washer and dryer
Dutch Door on the front entrance (added bonus!)
Partially finish bonus room (IE music room)
All appliances (all of which will be replaced eventually with energy efficient ones)
Back patio
Nicely Landscaped backyard
Japanese dry sauna with roof top deck
Did I mention there aren't ANY carpets?!?!?!

We are extremely excited!!!! WEST SEATTLE HERE WE COME!!!!!!!!!!

Daily dose of inspiration #7

DIY Wanescoating

Daily dose of inspiration # 6

DIY Painted Cabinets

Kitchen counters

The sellers counter offer came back absolute poo. They offered us their asking price plus 4k towards closing. We are going to offer what we had planned on maxing them at but the outlook does not look. It is probably back to the drawing board but we will keep you posted.

Offer made

Well, last night we made our first ever offer on a house. The offer expires at 7PM tonight so hopefully a counter offer will be received soon (and we are expecting one). We aren't able to meet the asking price because the house needs an immediate add-on to work for us so we have to keep some of our down payment, but hopefully things can be negotiated. Please keep fingers and toes crossed for us! And if you pray, please do so :)

Making an offer!

Pending one more look through tomorrow, we just may be making an offer on a house this week!

Daily dose of inspiration

We got our loan!!!!!!!!!!

And we are approved for not less than we had hoped for way back in the beginning before ever applying for a loan, but more!!!!!!!!!! And still under the monthly payment amount we were maxing ourselves at. WHOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!