Pics of my house

[Captain Morgan]

*Updated the thread with a few pics of the work in progress. New pics are lower in the thread.

Well, I closed today at 2PM and immediately went in to start pulling up carpet. I got $531 back at closing, which was a nice surprise. All of these pictures are "before." I will be replacing some carpet and refinishing some hardwood (which is under carpet in some rooms). In case you don't remember, this is the outside of the house. Oh, the white railing has already been painted black, but I don't have a pic of that yet. I got a VA loan and they're extremely strict. They said there can't be any peeling paint and it was peeling and rusted on the railing. So I went out and painted it in 30* weather so I could get the loan. I wasn't going to wait on the seller to "get to it as soon as they had time." I'll paint it right in the spring when it's wamer outside:



Here is the living room. There is ugly tile underneath of this carpet, but I'm having new carpet installed on the 26th:



If you look at the left side of the living room pic, you'll see a white door, which is a walk in closet. Eventually, I'm going to remove that door and wall up that area to create more usable space. The door to the closet will be moved out to the entrance from the garage (the brown door to the left of the white door), which is in the next picture. The closet door will be on the right side where the shelves are, the garage is on the left (don't have a pic of it):



The next picture is the outside of the house where the door is located in the pic above:



The kitchen is immediately on the right hand side when you walk in the front door from the porch. The following pics are of the kitchen. The microwave, stove, and fridge will all be replaced, as well as that nasty carpet:







This is the hallway leading to the original front door of the house:



What is now the living room was an addition to the house. The door in the above picture will rarely be used.

Here is the dining room. That "wallpaper" is not actually wallpaper. It's wood paneling that originally came like that. It's getting pulled down and replaced with drywall and then painted:



Here is a "closet" in the dining room. The dining room was originally a bedroom. The "stairs" are actually headroom for going down the basement stairs:



The following pics are of my bedroom. This was originally the living room, until they added onto the house. Hence, the entrance to the house just outside of my room:









The next pics are of my daughter's room. The carpet is in very good shape and she wants the pink carpet, so I'm going to leave it there for her. She has a very small closet, which is okay for now, but will suck when she gets older:





Here is the itty bitty bathroom. I'd rather have a little more space in the bathroom, but I'm really not that worried about it (that may change in 8-10 years as my daugher gets older):



The following pictures are of the basement. The first pic is immediately as you walk down the stairs. There is more room than it looks like. This is where I'll have my weights, treadmill, etc.



The next picture is in the same half of the basement, but tucked behind the stairs and next to the water heater and furnace:



The next pic is taken with my back to the shelves in the previous pic. Nice little workbench for whatever I choose to use it for: