A house! Seriously! It's ours! We live there!

Front:


Back:


From the sidewalk (note car 2.0 poking its butt out):


Our little garage:


Our back yard:


I love ferns:


And we have some stairs in the back yard too:


These are the wild flowers in our front "yard."


This is the west side of the house. It's like ... a quarry or something.


Here's the east side of the garage with the stairs that go down to the back yard:


A detail on those stairs: they are beautiful brick with fantastic moss. I love moss.


The back side of the garage. MORE MOSS!


There's a beautiful japanese maple tree in the front:



Holy moly! More moss in the driveway!


The garage is really ... small. Note how the mini looks kinda normal in there. As if the garage was made for it or something. Too bad I have to sell it, it fits so nicely!


So I guess we don't actually live there yet. But we could if we wanted to. And we do want to. We just have to get all our stuff there, first. Our plan is to pull down the wallpaper, paint the walls, pull up the carpet, and then move all of our worldly possessions over in small piles.

Now, there are a couple of terms one can use to describe the removal of wallpaper. Strip, scrape, etc. Those two involve tools, steam, maybe chemicals, and a ton of effort. We are going to use the word "pull." Because all we did was pull it off like a banana peel. Check it out!

Grab the edge:


and PULL!


A couple hours later, you've got a fully stripped house!



So here's our piles of wallpaper, ready to be sent to wallpaper heaven:


Fun! Next steps:
- Wash the remaining dried adhesive off the walls.
- Spackle all the crumblie bits, cracks, edges, and holes we found lurking behind the wallpaper.
-PAINT!

We're thinking we'll paint with some of the newer primer / paint combinations in white. We want to live there for a while before choosing colors.

So yeah! That's our house! Come on by any time! We'll be there spackling! Or drinking champagne! Or doing backspins on the kitchen floor!

Awesome.