Fixer Upper

We must have said- no fixer upper’s- at least 100 times while looking for a home in Tupelo. Well of course you know what we ended up with!

We couldn’t pass this one up—rooms are large, floor plan just what we wanted, the yard is huge, the neighborhood is quiet yet convenient to shopping, and yes the home is a constant challenge! The previous owners left behind all their heavy curtains and blinds covering dirty windows. We have filled quite a few garbage cans with their decor they left behind. I like to think that the home is happier now with sunlight streaming in thru cleaned windows! (thanks to Patti, chief window washer)!!

Another challenge has been to figure out which light switch does what…if anything. 2 days after closing, we were headed back to Missouri to get the rest of our stuff, planning on getting an early start when lo and behold, the garage door opener just would not work. We finally strong armed the door open so that we could get on the road and left that issue to deal with at a later date. Several days after that we were finally all moved in, but the electrician hadn’t gotten their yet to look at the door, when suddenly the garage door was working again. Patti had discovered that one of 2 switches by the back door to garage actually turned off power to the garage door opener. problem solved! Don’t touch that light switch please!!

We have painted rooms, tiled one bedroom floor, had ceiling fans installed and plug ins and outlets in some rooms replaced too. At some point someone had painted over some of the plugin and switches to the point where you could not even get anything plugged in because of all the paint- Uffda!

The kitchen is still an ongoing project, we cleaned cupboards and then painted the insides and tiled the bottoms and removed some of the cupboard doors for an open concept to see if we would like it (We do!) In the future we plan to sand the cupboards and then stain or repaint.

Yard work is still ongoing, we have trimmed hedges and hauled out trash left behind. Waiting for cooler weather for someone to come and pull out a whole mess of bushes in the front of the house and in the yard. Fall will be a break from inside work as we start to concentrate on the outside a little more. The big plan is to plant a Magnolia tree in the front yard, can’t believe this yard doesn’t have one!! We will fix that oversite!

Patti is the resident Tool lady! She has even learned to use a Skil Saw. Watch out world! Projects in process as of today are a rolling cart for the craft room, and a folding table for the laundry room made from iron sewing machine legs. Stay tuned!

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