This is our living room...really this room wasn't too bad. The carpet was newer and with a fresh coat of paint and some newer furniture it wouldn't look too bad.
Our formal dining room, customized with a gorgeous chandelier, beautiful dark brown parkay flooring, and a pink and teel rug. Oh yeah, anyone who wants the chandelier...it is yours, free of charge! No takers...I can't imagine why not!
Through a glass door and three steps up from the formal dining is what will be my craft room. For those of you wondering...yes, that is indoor/outdoor turf grass carpeting. It even holds a wonderful outdoorsy smell to it. And for those of you who love your decor to match...the curtains on those windows do match the floor. Creamy white with bright green plaid print.
Through to the kitchen you'll notice they didn't hold back in the 70's...they wanted the top of the line flooring. Linoleum with embossed details to make it look like tile...all dark brown, well light brown where it had faded. The kitchen cabinets overall are nice...they just desperately need new counters. And as for the oven...yes, that is a 1970's Magic Chef Double Oven. Did you know that timers on ovens in the 70's weren't for timing food while it cooked like they are now? They were set so you could set the timer before you left for work in the morning to turn on and cook the food an hour before you arrived home in the evening so the food was cooked and done for dinner time. Kind of a cool concept and a great way to burn your house down! :) Obviously we are not using that feature. (Funny/Cool story to come on the oven and learning to use it.)
The house is a tri-level house. The above photos are the main floor, bedrooms upstairs and gameroom downstairs.
The guest bathroom upstairs...through the hideaway door on the right is a shower with yellow tile and a restroom.
Three bedrooms (one not pictured).
The Master Bedroom with a Juliet balcony and vaulted ceiling.
The Master Bath...again with only the best...shiny lime green and silver wallpaper!
And if you couldn't see in the pictures...high end sculptured puke green carpet...literally from 1970 something.
On to the downstairs...
Our 1/2 bath with bright green fern wallpaper and dark brown wood paneling.
Our utility room with authentic yellow and gold linolium floor and pink bookshelves lining the wall. Oh and don't miss the avocado green washer and dryer..again which are for sale!
And our gameroom...or future gameroom with wet bar (yes it is a wet bar...it is somewhere under there, I promise!) Don't open that fridge though...whatever you do, don't open it. I promise you don't want to see what is in there.
One of the coolest things was this extensive workbench in the garage! And the pool, well the pool wasn't exciting when we moved in, but we are loving it now. (The transformation in another post).
Down these steps you will find our oasis...
The pool guy referred to our oasis as a frog pond. There were actually frogs, snakes and turtles living in the pool along with millions of mosquitos. Yuck!
And the backyard. Besides the clearing in the above picture, the entire front and back yard were a jungle! Including cedar...
So that is the house...or what it looked like when we bought it. Hopefully that has given you a brief, but good idea of what we got ourselves into. Now on to the DIY and what has happened since we got our hands on the place!
