Our First House, Amsterdam New York!

We finally got a house! Closed on August 22 2008. The closing went smoothly & took about 1 month to complete with the paper work. 1900 sq ft 1.5 bathrooms and four rooms. We are very happy with our find as many family names are street names located close by. Genevieve St, Phillip St, Johnathon St, Ann St, Henrietta St, Van Dyke St, to name a few. Neat to have family nearby...in a way of street names!

Here are pictures of our DIY home. It is a mess right now with foam on the floors, left over from the old pink carpet we removed. Walls torn up but the projects are coming along nicely. My darling Ben is working on the electrical work, while I scrap floors and knock out walls to put insulation in. We plan to remodel the kitchen and bathrooms next year some time.

Picture of before and after of the front of the house.

A picture of the coloured stones underneath the front door entrance. I put a shrub to compliment the differant colours of stone on the front porch. It changes during the seasons and with a few other scrubs that will eventually grow to the height I want.

The front door that I resprayed black..bit of a 'whoopsie' at the top left hand corner...will fix soon

The state of our driveway- another project to complete in the coming years. I am not looking forward to the ice in winter time with this driveway.

Here is the Pine tree at the back of the house. Abit of work to rack the fallen pine needles for the winter coming.

Some pics of the laundry room Ben is doing a great job on. Here is a pic of the washer\dryer set, not sure if I want to keep them stacked or put both on the floor side by side. Ben has finished the insulation. Next work to do is put up the gibb for the laundry room.

Wonderful wiring work...

The laundry floor-

The laundry ceiling...

Here are pictures of the downstairs. My scraper for the kitchen floor. I am removing the tar adhesive. We may replace the floor or have it finished...just abit suecky to walk on at the moment...

Photos of the upstairs.
This picture is 'coming up the stairs from the front entrance'

Coming up the stairs looking to the left you will see the master bedroom. The stairs to the Attic is on the other side left of the stairs. The office is to the left as well.

Looking to the right from the stairs is the Spare bedroom- the pink room. I demo'd when Ben left for a few days, hehe. Bathroom is the right, as well as the reading room.

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Our bedroom,which was the lovely pink. Painted quickly with a neutral colour so we can sleep at night.

The office room- at the front of the house.

Living room looking from the dinning room to the left hand side. You can see the front entrance on the left.

Top of stair case when going to the attic-pretty cool seeing the wood frame & beams.

Attic- the stairs are in the middle of the picture

Pictures of the outside.

Work that I have done on what was the over grown garden. Ben had chainsawed through every plant & bush -so I started from stratch. The garden was looking good, until the big pine tree behind our property started to shed for the winter. So these photos are from what it looks like at the moment.