Updated Pics of the house

I have not updated pictures of our house in so long. Not too much has changed. Our house is finally starting to feel like a home and its so exciting. There is so much more we want to update, however it is on hold until after the wedding.

Our bedroom...I really need help with the direction
I want this room to go in.

Guest room

Kitchen

Dinning Room

Living room

Loving the way the living room is coming together

Office

Back porch

Backyard

- lyss

Softa table has arrived

Last week our sofa table finally arrived from overstock. Luke and I (meaning mostly Luke with a little bit of moral support) put it together immediately. We were so excited to get it together. Does this now make us lame home owners? I think so. Once it was together... i loved it! I couldnt wait to hang the mirror above it. Lukes aunt (who is the queen of coupons and deals and can even find a way for a store to pay her to buy stuff got it for us for....3$...yes 3 dollar bills. How? i cant remember. But i know it had to do with a 50% off sale, a coupon, and something else..but yea pretty sweet.

Anyways the other night we finally got the mirror hung with it. I am a little anal and the mirror was a tad and by tad the little bubble in the level was a weee bit not in the center. I made luke fix it because it drove me nuts. I think he was about to cancel the wedding and leave me with how particular i am. And i might have been a little (a lot) dramatic over the weee croockedness.

But its all done and i think it looks pretty darn cute and finally gives the awkward space behind the couch some purpose.
Lyss :)

Sofa Table

I have been searching for a sofa/hall table f.o.r.e.v.e.r. Okay not exactly forever but for a few months..And i think i finally found one that matches our living room furniture perfectly! I wish our set had one that matched it...but it didn't. I found it on overstock.com. I will be ordering it tomorrow when Lukas gets home from coaching hockey.

Hopefully the color is true to the picture.


Lyss :)

Got the keys :)

Welp Lukas and I DID close today! How exciting :) So we officially have the keys to our house! My family and Lukes family are all meeting at the house after i get off work! So according to luke, we are starting to clean and paint tonight...haha (hope he remembers my bed time is 9 pm).



WE ARE SO BLESSED!



lyss

Monday is now the day...

Well i guess we are not closing today (friday). Im irritated i wanted to get everything moved in and ready to go....now we will sit and wait all weekend..for monday. We'll we probably wont really sit and wait... we did have a lot of plans this weekend: 2 work parties, hockey game to coach, and lukes brothers birthday...BUT i wanted to be in this weekend.....Grr.


lyss

Good news... short lived

So Lukas and I got the word yesterday that friday was a go :) We would be closing on our very own house this friday.... yay! We were so excited..although ill be unable to attend due to work..ill be there in spirit. We were so excited about getting moved in this weekend.....then


This morning Lukas tells me that his ebay account was hacked and they stole money..lots of money. Most of our closing cost money. IM PISSED! WTF?.... well supposedly everything will be cleared up and we "should" be able to close on friday. Im irritated....why is good news always followed by bad news?

Well..fingers crossed (again) that we can still close on friday. And whoever stole the money i hope you realize how much your raining on my parade.

lyss :)

New couch!!

Lukas and I have been tossing around the idea of a new couch. We had a few hand-me down couches that we had our pick from.. but we decided to go with something new! We shopped around for a few weeks. I think i sat on more couches these past 2 weeks then ever before in my life! But we both agreed on this one:

We also decided to go with some new end tables and a coffee table. We found these ones at the same place we bought our couch. We actually got them for a really good deal because they had marked them worng. We got them about 100$ cheaper! Sweet.


We are getting excited. Fingers crossed we are still moving in on the 10th!!

lyss :)

First Real Purchase

Luke and i made our first real purchase for our house. (besides the "Merry Christmas" decoration for our door). We bought 16 boxes of flooring. Luke and I are going to rip out the carpet in the dinning room and office and lay flooring. We are also putting the same flooring in our kitchen.

Before we move in anything, we are scrubbing down the house, laying the flooring, and painting.

For the kitchen, we are not doing much besides the floor.

The dining room is going to get a neutral color on the wall. (tan-ish color more than likely)

The living room we are leaning towards a green/brown/ with pops of blue. This is still in the planning stage. (it depends on if we decide to get a new couch or not) Here are some pics that i like:



Our bedoom is blue and brown. Luke had bought a really nice bedding set when he moved to Harrisburg so we are going to stick with that for a while. I think we are going to do 3 walls blue and 1 wall brown.

The guest room is going to be random for now.

The office is Luke's baby. He can do with it what he wants. The only rule is that i have to have some space in there for me to do my work too.

The upstairs bathroom is somewhat up in the air for now.

lyss :)

House Details

The down low on the house situation.

So after deciding that the little green house was not for us, i was set on slowing down on the house hunting. But my mom found this cute white house 2 blocks from our house. We decided that we would go walk through it... however my step dad was in NY for work and i wanted him to be there...but we decided to walk through on a Monday without him. We loved it. It was bigger than the green house and less expensive. There were very few things we did not like. (yes it needs some cosmetic work). The next morning our Realtor texted Luke and informed him that there was another offer on the table. Actually that the buyer and sellers have been going back and forth for a week and if we wanted any chance at this house we had to act.. and act fast. That day.. yes.. less than 24 hrs after seeing the house and only sending pictures to my step dad, we put an offer on the house. We decided that we would put in our best and final offer. Later that afternoon, the sellers accepted our offer.

My initial reaction was "im gonna vom" It was overwhelming. But after it all sunk in excitement started to set in. A fews days later my step dad got to walk through the house and we got his approval.

This week is a big week. Meeting with the bank tomorrow and home inspection on thursday. I hope all comes back well. I am not a person who likes to jump through hoops and work through red tape... and i know its only the beginning... and its not going to be smooth sailing..but i can only wish.

lyss :)

GUESS WHAT?!?

This little baby will be our house as of December 10th!!!
Lets hope and pray that the home inspection turns out good.

Updates to come soon!

House Dreaming

Luke and I have always dreamed about our house. Our dream house would be large, open floor plan, stainless steel appliances, hard word floors, large up dated bathrooms, at least 4 rooms, an office, large backyard, outdoor living, etc. I could probably go on and on. It would probably look a little something like this:





However, unless Luke and I win the Lottery.. these houses are a little (a lot) out of budget. But Luke and I maybe a little more Luke have been on a house kick. We really want a place to call our own. How we would love to run to the bank get out a loan that would make me vom...it probably is not the smart thing to do. It's a battle i fight with myself. I know financially it would be smart to live at home a while longer..We are in the process of planning a wedding. But i am so eager to move on, live in our own place, and have a place to ourselves. For kicks and maybe a little seriousness luke and i went and view a cute little house a few blocks from my parents house. Its older and the inside is dated.. a lot of wall paper...and more wall paper... and some old counter tops.. but it would be a cute first home and we would have fun fixing it up. However then my brain kicks in and has to remind myself and luke (luke a lot) that it would be smart to hold off on the house hunting :( But here is a picture of the house we drive by everyday and say: "there's our house".


Well maybe the house will stay on the market until we are ready to buy :) haha!

Lyss :)