Officially home owners again!

On December 19th, we closed on our new home!  We were so blessed that this short sale process went by so quickly and that we only had to stay in the rental for our original lease agreement of 3 months. We decided to get all of the floors in the entire house (except 2 bathrooms) redone before we moved in, hoping it would be less work that way.  So weeks leading up to closing we had scheduled hardwoods, tile and carpet to be installed right away. Since we only had about a week and a half to get them all done before we needed to move in, it was a little crazy but totally worth it.

As soon as closing was over we headed to the new house where we found the hardwood guys waiting in our driveway, ready for us to open it up for them to get busy!  (We waste no time around here folks!)

So the first step was to take out the carpet in the living and dining room and put in hardwoods!  Here is the before:

During the process:

Done!

Next was sanding the current hard woods so they could get refinished to match the new and then picking our stain color:
And all officially stained!  Can't even tell where the old ends and new begins! We also had the stairs refinished to match as well.

During that process we were also having the carpet installed!  We wanted to make sure Emery was playing on clean carpet, so we replaced it in the whole house.  This was the view our neighbors had... classy!

Padding being installed:

Glance at the new carpet upstairs:

We also had the kitchen and living room walls & ceiling repainted.  Here is the before of our kitchen walls... WOW.  In case you were wondering they left those lovely couches with cabinets & closets full of other things.... all of which we donated!

And here is the after of our kitchen... hello comfort gray!

And an after of our living room.  We LOVE this color (thank you Molly!) and how it changes between a blue/green/gray depending on what time of the day it is.

We also hired out the laundry room and 2 of our bathrooms upstairs to be tiled:

Done!

Then it was officially time to begin moving!  My dad let us borrow his trailer when we went home for our early Christmas, so we took many loads over to the new house ourselves before help arrived.  Thank heavens everything made it in one piece!  More on our moving process tomorrow!