Progresssss!

Sooooo, the kitchen cabinets are up at The Beast and look oh-so-good! Dave did an amazing job installing them. They were special order cabinets so it took them awhile to get here but it was definitely worth the wait! They were delivered yesterday and we got them all installed TODAY, which was a surprise.  It's nice when that happens! If only everything worked that way...

Here's some "before" and "after" pics of the kitchen...it's definitely come a crazy long way from that awful, tiny, pink-trimmed, paneled, disgusting, old mess of a kitchen that it was...

Eeeekk!

Yuck!

Yeahhhh!

Plaster walls = insane mess to clean up

Layers upon layers of walls

Little by little we knocked it out...

...and created 1 space from 3 separate rooms

 Pretty nasty, huh? 15 years of vacant house gross-ness...now on to the PRESENT!

Time to put the cabinet puzzle together!

Walls prepped for cabinets

Voila! Now ready for backsplash and granite

I'm in love with the fridge casing! I will have one of these one day!

Time to clean up! I'll take this heap over the plaster wall nightmare!

Pocahontas should be closing in the next 2 weeks. Turns out, we had to provide a repair expense report to the buyer's bank, basically justifying the jump between our purchase price ($52k) and our selling price ($90k).  Frustrating to say the least! All we are waiting on now is the appraisal and closing should come soon after...
 

Deerwood should close in the next few days. Still trying to line up a contractor for that one and figure out how to tackle the mold issue. We'd like to have a few weeks "off" while Demouy is on the market since we haven't had a break in months but it's looking like we may have to do some of the work on Deerwood as well...unless we can get our contractors to give us a great price. Let's hope it's the latter ;)

PS - We accepted the bank's counter-offer on the precious little house built in the 50's I told you about. The deal  fell through at the last minute but we are still on the warpath to buying a home for us...So it's "to-be-continued" for now :)