"Before"

In case you want to track how spectacular our progress is, here are some shots of the house as we found it. Feel free to start taking bets now on whether it will be better or worse off when we're done.

House photos

So that happened.

It appears that someone has been foolish enough to allow us to buy a house. And speaking of foolish, we have all sorts of plans to make like basic-cable hosts and work on it. Yes, ourselves.

Step 1: watch lots of TLC (check)
Step 2: get books on how to fix a house (check)
Step 3: get house (check)
Step 4: get tools...

Stay tuned here to see how it goes.