Welcome to The House of Wonders

Dave and I just bought our first home together!  The market in Denver is ridiculous right now for buying or renting so our choices were limited.  I only explain that because once you read the rest of this post you'll be wondering what the heck we were thinking.

We have dubbed this house The House of Wonders!  It won't take long to understand why - you'll see the pictures and wonder what we were thinking.  Everyone who steps foot in this house to repair something wonders who messed it up so badly.  In fact, everywhere you turn you can't help but wonder "what were they thinking??" 

We thought it would be fun to blog our adventure so you can sigh and laugh and cry along with us.  And hopefully, at the end you'll smile with us too!

Welcome to The House of Wonders

The light in the picture isn't great but that's an orange wall.  This upstairs bathroom is probably one of the best rooms in the house.  So we'll start with that and then move on to the rest.  :)

This is the dining room.  You can't see carpet detail in this picture but it's got holes and it stinks and, as an added bonus, it's greasy!  So gross.  The wall (again hard to get the full glory of the place in these pictures) the wall is actually a burnt orange and it goes all the way into the living room.  The rest of the walls are a light brown.  

The previous owners added some curved stairs.  Why, you wonder? Well...we do too.  You'll notice that they covered part of the heat vent when they added the stairs.  That's probably the most competent thing they did in all of their "renovations" here.

  

The house is a split entry. You'll notice this wall has a piece of tile at the top. Just one random, lonely piece of tile. At the bottom it might have had a tile companion but whatever was there disappeared long ago. Probably about the same time that the dog chewed up the stair (bottom left). The carpet on these stairs has holes and is greasy and filthy.

This is one of our favorite features to point out because it's so unique. This is the Shoe Wonder. Well, it doesn't really fit adult size shoes but it fits kid shoes really well. Along the stud in the middle of it runs a main electrical line. That was painted to blend in. Um, when you cut out this little gem and noticed that there was a main electrical line...did it cause you to pause and rethink? Apparently not. Just paint it and it'll be fine. Right.

I'm sorry to tell you that you're going getting a little peak at the Jail Cell Bathroom because the rest of the pictures seem to have disappeared. I'll keep looking for them because you really must see the whole thing. But, this will at least give you an idea. At the back of this picture you can see wood bars screwed to the wall. This was done to 2 whole walls - thus the name "Jail Cell Bathroom". What were they thinking??? The floor was dark outdoor slate tiles (NOT meant for indoors), the countertop has the same lovely floor tile as the kitchen. Oh yes, you haven't seen the kitchen yet - well it's covered in this same hideous floor tile.

We've gutted this bathroom and redone it from top to bottom and since I can't find the pictures for this post I'll include more in our next post.

Blogger keeps losing everything I add to this post (grrr!) and I can't find all of our pictures at the moment but this will at least give you an idea of our House of Wonders. We'll post more "before" pictures later as well as updates as renovations are finished.

And, even in the midst of all the chaos we're very glad to be here and to have a home to call our own.  It will take lots and lots of work to bring this place up to par but it's an adventure we're up for.  At least we think we are...