{"id":1379,"date":"2009-04-03T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T19:58:09","slug":"has-it-really-been-just-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2009\/04\/03\/has-it-really-been-just-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Has it really been just two years?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It feels longer.\u00a0 Its hard to believe we’ve only owned this little house for two years.\u00a0 We’ve done alot, and I do mean A LOT to this house in that short amount of time.<\/p>\n

When we bought it, it was a nice 4 bedroom 2 bath with potential.\u00a0 The gardens were overgrown with weeds, the lawn needed a cut, and the interior… Oh, the horror! Someone had painted almost every room in a drab ugly brown that matched the paneling throughout the main living spaces.\u00a0 The end result was that it all looked dreadful, to the point that we even briefly considered ripping out the paneling.\u00a0 Three different types of carpeting, scratched up laminate flooring, & linoleum with rips and gashes in it, combined to make the flooring a hot mess.\u00a0 One shed had a huge whole in the door, the other shed had a hole in the roof.\u00a0 The deck was in bad shape, as was the fireplace.\u00a0 Overall, it was a nice place that really needed a whole lot of work.<\/p>\n

\"When<\/a><\/p>\n

In the two years since, we have completely repainted every room in the house. Bright & cheery colors, complimented by a few darker tones, and the whole color scheme matches nicely since we have a fairly open floor plan.\u00a0 The colors have really brought out the beauty in the paneling.\u00a0 We also replaced the carpets & linoleum in the whole house.\u00a0 The now uniform carpeting has really made the difference, coupled with a beautiful tiled linoleum just pull the whole look together. We had the fireplace fixed, and my handsome husband ripped out part of the deck and the shed that was falling apart, as well as built new doors for other shed we wanted to keep.\u00a0 The fence had to get replaced after some kind of critter broke into the back yard and left us “presents” all over the yard.\u00a0 The gardens have been weeded, and, although I don’t have flowers in them right now, they look much better now, empty, then they did when we bought the place.\u00a0 And my awesomely talented & hardworking hubby replaced the mailbox.\u00a0 No more pathetic looking scraggly mailbox for us!<\/p>\n

\"It<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been a busy two years, but good.\u00a0 The change from “a nice house with potential” to a “home” has been astounding.\u00a0 Like everyone told me when we first bought it, home repairs never truly end, but I think we’re about done with the “remodel” phase, and have nicely transitioned into routine maintenance.\u00a0 It’s really a nice place now.\u00a0 It suits us.<\/p>\n

Two years.\u00a0 It feels like forever. Like we finally have that little place in this world that fits us to a T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It feels longer.\u00a0 Its hard to believe we’ve only owned this little house for two years.\u00a0 We’ve done alot, and I do mean A LOT to this house in that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family_life","category-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}