Before and After

Between all our trips we bought a small house in Pensacola. It’s been interesting.  The house was a short sale where the owners divorced and hadn’t lived in the house for a year or two.  The grass was 2’ tall with 10’ high bushes surrounding the yard.  The copper piping under the house had been stolen.  However the repairs inside are relatively minor. We’ve been working on the house since we moved in.  We expect to sell the house in a year or so, so it’s been interesting seeing how we can fix up the house without spending a lot of money.

The front yard has been our biggest investment in time and money.  We dug up many of the bushes and cut back the ones we left.  All that was left of the yard was weeds, so we planted sod.  I was able to save money on plants by using freecycle.  Have you heard about freecycle.org?  You can get rid of things you don’t need quickly and get things other people don’t need.  I was able to get quite a few plants this way.  Free, plus I know they grow well in Florida.  Here's some before and after pictures.

Inside we’ve painted two bedrooms and the repainted the partially painted bathroom.  The popcorn ceiling is gone and the wood floor has been sanded and refinished.  Oh, and we freecycled the stuff the previous owners left in the house.
 

So much more to do (in between trips)!