The Renovation

You know how sometimes answers to prayers don't exactly come how we expect them?  Well, that is kind of how Acacia Acres is.  Since the home is older, we have a LOT of renovation to do, and we are doing it on less than a "beer budget" so to speak.  I am taking it as a challenge to see just how much I can re-use and re-purpose in order to spend as little as possible.  I'm really having to think outside the box to figure out how to make things look like I want them to without spending a fortune.

Since closing, one week ago, we have painted Zoe's room pink, pulled most of the carpet out upstairs and begun to paint the dining room and living room.  There has also been a transfer of several trailer loads of stuff from our current house, lots of cleaning and the application of Old English to all of the woodwork.  I keep thinking we should have made more progress, but apparently we are only human!

Tomorrow the plan is to actually get some flooring down.  I will take some "before" pics and get them posted and begin the running total of how little we will spend on the renovation, as well as releasing some details about the "out of the box" products we are going to use to hopefully achieve our goals.

Stay tuned...