Little Chicago Bungalow

Valentine’s Day in the morning and truffles the night before.
We celebrated my g-ma’s 88th and cousin’s 21st birthdays over dim sum, then spent the rest of the day sanding the living room walls.

The floors keep changing colors throughout the day.

Last Saturday night we had a romantic date to Home Depot = awesome. I started scratching off goo and paint from the windows. Time spent on each window = 2 hours. Adam ripped up more dog-pee-stained-carpet from the attic in which I could hear him cursing from downstairs.
From then to this week is a blur. [...]

Already we’ve done so much work and hardly scratched the surface of what we have planned. Here’s an outline of what we need to complete before we move on February 20th, 2009:

Remove existing trash from property including curtains, furniture, dishes, food, misc.
Remove carpet from the attic
Carpet shampoo the basement
Remove quarter rounds from baseboards

Sand + stain [...]

We are now into the second week of home ownership after wondering if it would ever happen. Four and a half years ago Adam and I started looking at properties in Chicago in which we engaged in 3 real-estate contracts. Then on September 10, 2008 we signed onto a short sale waiting 5 months to [...]