I have pictures from when the house was purchased, but this was in the days before digital cameras and phones that connected to the internet, so here we are. I had to search around until I found a cache of actual developed film pictures!

So much has changed since this picture was taken! It’s hard to believe the house looked like this… Since this picture was taken, that car is no longer with us, the door was replaced, the awning and door were painted, a new roof was put on, the shutters inside the front window were removed, the sidewalk was replaced (a story in and of itself!) and a fence was installed along the full 120 feet of frontage and then we accidentally backed into the gates and broke them. OUCH!

I’m not sure how I’m going to organize the blog. I’m not sure whether I’m going to go chronologically or room by room or do a parallel of old house vs new house. We’ve done a LOT to this house over 20 years. Most of it was done with our own hands. Including scraping orange and brown ASTROTURF off the hardwood floors in the room that would eventually be the master bedroom after three kids.

Until next time…