I'm so happy to be here! It's been quite a journey to get to this point. A brief summary would begin with "Once upon a time" we decided to sell our house. We lived in a double-wide manufactured house out in the country. We lived in a neighborhood where everyone had at least one acre of land. It was peaceful and quiet. We enjoyed having the land to experiment with gardening and chickens. So why move?
At some point we began shifting priorities. We realized we weren't getting any younger and we had other interests. The neighborhood wasn't what it used to be. We couldn't go for a walk for fear someone would have their gigantic dogs running loose. So we decided to move...
I had done many, many, many, many projects on our house. Still, selling a manufactured home can be a long process.
These are some photos from our listing. The total amount of time to sell took 6 months. Now we were ready to find our next home. It was crazy time!
We had definite goals. Find a home that we could buy from our proceeds and be free of a mortgage. Find a home that is structurally sound. After telling friends what we were looking for, and enduring their funny looks, we started getting a few good tips. Then, seemingly overnight, we found our house...
This is a 1997 Fleetwood home. It is a double-wide at roughly 1312 square feet. (A whole 12 square feet bigger than the house we sold) The stuff on the roof is...a new roof. Unfortunately it's been raining for two weeks and we'll have to wait for better weather. Part of the purchase of this house is having the seller replace the roof. That's a huge score in my book. It still has its' original roof. Notice there are also a lot of trees.
Here's another view. Don't be too hard on her. We've only been here two weeks. We still have lots of cleaning up and finding a place for everything.
Here's one of two big trees I have. This one is a pecan tree. In fact the whole neighborhood and town is an old pecan plantation. The trees are old and some are very large.
Well, that's about it for this time. We've been in the house for 17 days now and have been working from sun up to sun down on a lot of those days. I can't wait to show you our work in progress and some delightful results. See you soon!
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Julie, how exciting! A fresh start is always so fun! Thank you for sharing this week on the Art of Home-Making Mondays :)
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