After travelling for 5 years we decided we needed a “project”. So, in October 2013 we bought a fixer upper in Kitchener, ON. Despite being a bank repo and needing A LOT of work, we still figured we could transform the 1000 sq. ft bungalow on a 40’ x 150’ lot in 6 months. Boy did we under estimate how long it would take to do everything.
- First of all, we’re not 20 anymore. 50 year old bodies just move slower.
- We can’t work 24/7 and we get sick. One of us even broke both her wrists so she couldn’t do ANYTHING for 6 weeks, that sucked for both of us because we were almost done the house when that happened this past summer. Check out my sad pics below.
- Decisions, decisions, decisions….some take forever to make.
- Simple jobs are never simple and are way more time consuming than you think!
- We took time to visit and reconnect with family and friends in the area but that was a VERY good thing.
In the end it took us almost 2 years to get the property into sellable shape. We’re now trying to sell it privately, it’s been on the market since the beginning of October 2015 so fingers crossed it sells soon!
I’ve set up a number of slideshows so you can see a few of the before, in between and after pics of each room and the yards. After you see them I think you’ll understand why it took us so long to renovate, we had to touch every surface in the house and the yard work was exhausting. We took over 800 lbs. of scrap metal out of the back yard.
Over all, we’re very proud of the finished product it looks pretty darn good if we do say so ourselves!
