All Growed Up!

Taylor and I are officially 

HOMEOWNERS!!

{Is it odd that NOW I feel grown up, not when I got married, or got my big-girl-horizontal driver’s license, or did you-know-what…no, owning a house is what made me FINALLY feel like an Adult!}

I LOVE this house, and a disclaimer before I go too far into and make all you readers feel giddy and excited for me…there is a catch. I only get this house for a year. We purchased this property not necessarily for the home that sits on it but for a business venture, but it will be our primary residence for the next year or so until the plans are done and everyone involved is ready to scrap the house {yes, scrap it} and build 6 houses on the land.

While I entirely understand this, and I know that a 1940’s adobe house has a LOT of problems, and no we can’t afford to fix them. Historical homes are a labor of love, and while I LOVE this house. There are other people involved, and its not all up to me.

I do, however, have a chance. 1 in 1,000,000… But still a chance!!!! If I can raise $200,000 dollars to fix it up before they start the project I can keep it…but that’s not a small number, and I don’t know where to start.

THE HOUSE

I have dubbed this house “THE CLARENDON HOUSE” due to obvious reasons, and I am in love with it. Though not as deeply and truly in love as I am with TAYLOR my sweet wonderful HOTT smart strong amazing husband!!

It is a Spanish style adobe house and was built in the 40’s. It is everything I want in a house, original oak wood floors from the 40’s, floor to ceiling hand blown glass windows, a HUMONGOUS backyard, a good neighborhood in Phoenix {yes, all you Mesa people, those exist and are PLENTIFUL in Phoenix, its not as ghetto as you all think}, this house has CHARACTER, from the nasty mint-ice-cream-colored bathroom {which, if I do get the money to keep the house, this will DEFINTIELY be remodeled} to the REAL ARIZONA ROOM, this house is worth anything to keep, so please look at the photos, fall in love with it as I have, and help a sista out!

If you know ANYTHING about restoring historic homes please CLUE ME IN!!

GALLERY

cute little kitchen! I love the window looking over the yard!

My new spider friend under the sink

Disgusting I know...

itty bitty bathroom

original 1940's oak wood floors!!!! LOVE

mint ice-cream-colored bathroom

Oh, I will definitely be FIXING this

bedrooms, and ARIZONA ROOM{always have LOVED real arizona rooms!!}

Lower left-hand corner: PROOF its ADOBE!

as you can see, it hasn’t been cleaned, in fact it hasn’t been lived in since the 80’s…and who knows what since… We’re planning on cleaning and fixing up everything just enough to live in. I’ll post after pictures as soon as we get it livable!!

I hope you think the house is as great as I think it is!! I’m going to do my best to earn that $200,000…and hopefully I’ll be able to save my house!

Either way, I’m SO EXCITED that I even get to live in it at all, and even a year will be amazing, though I know I can’t put too much money into it.

LIFE IS PHENOMENAL!