Start of Something Great!

Many things are changing here at the Beckman household...So I figured its probably a good time to start this blog...for family, and DIYers alike... :)

We bought a house...we close End of September...so...Let the projects begin!!!

Picture of the house... It has many projects...but its really beautiful and has so much charm!  If I built a house, it'd be very similar to this! We fell in love with this home when we first saw it...but when we went to make an offer the listing agent informed us that there were two other offers being submitted the same night...so we would have to hurry and complete the offer and make it good enough to compete...well the very last minute before we sent the offer, we decided to let the house go...we werent comfortable offering full asking and it just didn't feel right! So we continued searching...the following Saturday we went house searching solo. Our realtor hadn't gotten back to us so we decided to go look alone. 

We found a house we liked, and even made an offer through their realtor (trying to save money on realtor fees) The home was 27 years newer and really pretty...but after fighting with the realtor from Hell...and dwelling on the fact that it didn't have a dining room, we decided to terminate our agreement. The day we decided, our first realtor (who is amazing BTW) called and told us the initial house we fell in love with was still available. Apparently the listing agent had Bold faced lied about the multiple offers in an attempt to drive up our offer. Good thing we didn't fall for it!!! So we made an offer...low ball offer...they countered at the halfway price point+paying closing...and BAM we have a signed contract on a house we LOVE!!! Thanks to Heavenly Father guiding our missteps we're back to the house with the charm we fell in love with!


Now the projects begin...

My husband bought himself a new flatscreen TV...making our enormous entertainment center obsolete...so we bought this...$10 of craigslist... We sanded it down, fixed the dings, turned the top drawers into shelves that hold all our different video game systems and put new hardware on it...

This one is the real color ^

 

All of the top ones open!

 

Total it cost us $19! Doesn't get much better than that!
Many more projects to come...I'm buying a hutch for the dinning room tomorrow...it's gunna be a good redo!!! Stay tuned!!!