I mentioned before that we had to cancel our trip to Austin because of the repairs on our new home. Here is the update:
We signed the contract on our new home Friday. We are getting an FHA loan, and the appraiser advised us that we must scrape and repaint the eves and overhangs on the entire house before they will process the loan. We were planning to do this anyway but did not anticipate it being complete untill next year.
The house itself is adobe and is a light tan color. the trim and porch railings are country blue. For some unGodly reason, the couple who owned the house before us, desided to add flames as accents on either side of each post, then painted each one pink. They also added shutters. They are not the slatted shutters but are these very crafty looking 1 ft x 3 ft planks of wood, with large hearts cut out of each one and also painted country blue. All the way around the house is a scalloped border, also painted blue. On either side of the house at the pitch of the roof, are cedar shingles about a quarter of the way down. They are also painted....want to guess what color? Country Blue!!!! These are all weathered and look really shabby. So.... our work is cut out for us. All the Flames are coming down, all the blue is coming off and going to be replaced with a darker terricata color; the shutters are going in the dumpster (I think that will be the first thing we are going to do), the cedar shingles are going to be replaced with siding. I wanted to start on the interror first because the inside of the house has been painted and wall papered in the same fashion as the exterior. Just to give you an idea, the person desided to purchase new cabnets, and put a light blue marble tile for the counter tops (which is not too bad), however they took the doors off, painted the cabnets pink (the same pink as the accent flames on the outside) then put the unpainted doors back up. On the walls these people put up wall paper that has little pink and blue flowers all over it. Ugly ugly ugly! The only reason we want the house is that It is 5 bedroom two bath, with carport 10 foot privacy fence all the way around.
On the sides of the house it has cedar shingles which we will replace with siding. Saturday my wife made a trip to the local hardware store. She purchased the paint, then a friend and I went to buy the siding. We figured out that we would need 16 sheet. My God! I spent $380.00 in one one place for a home we don't own yet, and we are still not done!!!??? Ugggggg!
We signed the contract on our new home Friday. We are getting an FHA loan, and the appraiser advised us that we must scrape and repaint the eves and overhangs on the entire house before they will process the loan. We were planning to do this anyway but did not anticipate it being complete untill next year.
The house itself is adobe and is a light tan color. the trim and porch railings are country blue. For some unGodly reason, the couple who owned the house before us, desided to add flames as accents on either side of each post, then painted each one pink. They also added shutters. They are not the slatted shutters but are these very crafty looking 1 ft x 3 ft planks of wood, with large hearts cut out of each one and also painted country blue. All the way around the house is a scalloped border, also painted blue. On either side of the house at the pitch of the roof, are cedar shingles about a quarter of the way down. They are also painted....want to guess what color? Country Blue!!!! These are all weathered and look really shabby. So.... our work is cut out for us. All the Flames are coming down, all the blue is coming off and going to be replaced with a darker terricata color; the shutters are going in the dumpster (I think that will be the first thing we are going to do), the cedar shingles are going to be replaced with siding. I wanted to start on the interror first because the inside of the house has been painted and wall papered in the same fashion as the exterior. Just to give you an idea, the person desided to purchase new cabnets, and put a light blue marble tile for the counter tops (which is not too bad), however they took the doors off, painted the cabnets pink (the same pink as the accent flames on the outside) then put the unpainted doors back up. On the walls these people put up wall paper that has little pink and blue flowers all over it. Ugly ugly ugly! The only reason we want the house is that It is 5 bedroom two bath, with carport 10 foot privacy fence all the way around.
On the sides of the house it has cedar shingles which we will replace with siding. Saturday my wife made a trip to the local hardware store. She purchased the paint, then a friend and I went to buy the siding. We figured out that we would need 16 sheet. My God! I spent $380.00 in one one place for a home we don't own yet, and we are still not done!!!??? Ugggggg!
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