A new house!

Our Heather and Andrew purchased their first home!  It's been a hard thing.  In our area, home sales have been booming so there were multiple offers or it would be sold before they even made an offer.  But, they knew God had a plan for them and they ended up with this cute home!

They got the keys last week.  It's in a quiet little neighborhood, has a nice garage to the back and a fenced in back yard.

Our initial finds included:

This old microwave...

and a big box of assorted wines hidden under the basement stairs.

It's in good condition but needs some TLC.  The guy that was living there didn't seem to know how to clean.  The kitchen especially was filthy.
I spent Saturday afternoon with them and Bob came by after work to do a little work.  Heather and I tackled the kitchen - cleaned all the cabinets and lined them, cleaned the stove and Heather cleaned the refrigerator.  In the meantime, Andrew was working hard pulling up grubby carpet in the master bedroom and stairway.  Thankfully there is nice hardwood floor underneath.

Here's the master bedroom with the carpet removed.  The doors on the side provide nice access to attic space.

Bob and Andrew hard at work pulling up tac strips and nails after the carpet was taken off.

 All the interior doors have these pretty glass knobs.

Bob was working on the lock on the slider.  You can see the nice garage behind him.

Here's the living room.  I love the book shelves and the curved window nooks.  The fireplace needs some work - someone put stucco with glass stones on it, so that's a project for later!

I'm sure you'll see more pictures as things are worked on.  They have a few weeks to do some painting and projects before they move in.