I guess I have some time to work on it!!

So, it isn't that I didn't know it wasn't going to be long but yesterday I got laid-off from my job. I sell cars at a small, family run, dealership that is slow and they don't need me anymore. I was a bit freaked that I don't have to get up and go to work today or Monday or the day after that for many days to come. I have made a decision, I don't sell cars anymore. . . for good. I hate the hours that are involved in the car business. I want a life and weekends.

On top of the job thing though was an even greater tragedy. My lovely little children, teenage brats who fight constantly, broke one of the panes of glass from our entry door while fighting. . . I have no job and I am going to have to put ugly glass in my door.

I got one estimate for the repair it was from a national chain, a company completely out of there league when it comes to a 1926 door and it was $175. $175 sound like a lot for a piece of glass that I know that I will hate. I love the old wavy glass in the other two panes in the door.

Has anyone had any experience with this type of door? it looks Like the pane was set into the opening and then the door was continued to ge assembled. Am I going to have to take the door apart? that may not be so bad because apparently if anyone finds out that the new piece of glass is for a door they are going to force on me tempered glass which I think will look like crap in that old door.

This is what I started with, not bad hey!!!

I decided to begin blogging because I have lost steam for a lot of projects and think that I have ADD. Probably not but, hey it would explain my lack of completion!!! I read web blogs almost daily. I love the Enon Hall site, I discovered it about three weeks ago and read the whole thing in about three days, I was addicted.

The things I have done include, painting all three bedrooms, living room, dining room, and kitchen. I had a new roof put on a couple of months ago. I also did a lot of cleaning and old gross carpet removal. The yard had no landscaping at all so, I dug all the sod from the side of the house to the concrete walkway and put in perennials, another perennial bed around a large pine tree in the back yard and yet another in front of the garage.

Here are pictures of what the house looked like when I bought it, they are the originals I saw on-line when I found the house. I will take pictures of room that are basically done for now and post them soon. I figure the sooner I show what has been done the sooner I will be forced to continue work on it.

Any Ideas for a kitchen that has 5 door two windows, a built in ironing board and a laundry shoot? Yeah that's a problem. . . especially since I think that ironing board is great and I am unwilling to close off any doors and really couldn't if I wanted to. I have made a temporary change in the kitchen but, still dream of more functionality. My family that reads this will find this next bit hard to believe, I like to cook. I just don't have time or space!!

Why this house?

Last April I got a wild hair at work to look at houses for sale in my home town and see what a payment would be if I bought. It turns out about $40 less than I was paying for rent. So, I bought a 1926 bungalow. It was the third house i saw on the Internet and the only one I looked at in person. If that sounds like the easiest home purchase ever, it wasn't. . .

Initially, when I called the realtor I received no call back and got busy so I didn't call back for a few days, I did drive by it about four times a day wondering why a realtor, whom works on commission, would neglect to call.

Then, a realtor came in to look at a car on my lot, I am a car sales person. He happened to be with the same company as the listing agent and checked on it, it had an accepted offer. He continued to send me a barrage of listings in my price range but nothing interested me. If I could not have that house I was going to let it ride a while. Then one day about 10 days later, he called. The man who was to buy the house has had a heart attack and as an over the road truck driver he may be out of the running.

I looked at the house that afternoon with my sister and my step mother and then, an hour later I wrote an offer on it.

The first potential buyer had another heart attack while in the hospital, he is fine but unemployed, so. . . I GOT MY HOUSE!!!!!