Home Sweet Home!

For those of you who don't know, and that's probably a lot because we've been pretty "on-the-down-low" about this, but Josh & I are officially HOME OWNERS!! It's a first for me, Josh owned a home before we were married, but it's been long enough that we get the first-time homebuyer tax credit! That's one thing I'm thankful to Obama for. Anyway! One of my goals in life was to be the youngest member of my family to own a home. So unless my brother buys a home in the next year, I can check that one off my list ;) Stupid little goal, I know, but I'm happy I've accomplished it, especially without breaking the bank!

So here's a little about it. It's a 2 bedroom condo in Taylorsville between 950 & 1100 square feet (the previous owner says the later, the appraiser says the former...who knows? Still bigger than our place now!). I thought Taylorsville was far away, but it's VERY close to i-215 & there's tons of stores & places to go around. Plus, since it's so much bigger, we'll be able to have people over more often! It's an older place but very nicely remodeled so the only major thing we are going to do now is paint. We may decide to redo the countertops later & Josh is thinking about doing some bookshelves around the fireplace but all-in-all we're very happy with it. We hadn't been telling a lof of people about it until recently because it was the third place we had put a bid on & the others had fallen through & we didn't want to tell everyone and then have this one fall through as well. Anyway, here's pictures of the "before" & I'll post more later of the "after."
This is the living room. It's kind of an odd shape (very rectangular) so there's not a TON of room but it's still great. Pretty floors huh? "Fake" hardwood but less matience and they're throughout the whole house

I almost wish there wasn't a fireplace because it makes the placement of the TV very tricky...

Dining area (to the left when you walk in)

The kitchen is great, especially with the bar & pot rack, but I HATE the color.

This is actually the second, smaller bedroom, but in this picture it's the "master". It's really hard to tell what color the room actually is because it's so dang dark in there....
This was the kids room so they had more room to play but it will be the master room when we move in

Bathroom