The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (not in that order)
We bought the house in the Spring of 2013, hoping to live in it someday. While we knew our time at Gateway was continuing, we thought we were closer to the end than the beginning. The house was therapeutic as we painted and made it our own. Spending time on our off days and the mornings when the kids were at school. The house was a flip, bought off a Sheriff's Sale. The flipper painted everything creamish brown and stuck about 5 different trims up in the entire house. The living room has 4 different trims in itself. There were various 'window' openings of different heights that made the room feel off. We loved the layout of the house, but it needed some TLC to make it our own. I felt in some places things were painted over just for presentation while there were things under the surface that needed worked on. Picture taken on the day we closed on the house I was literally in the process of painting the last room, after 9 months of p...