We did it!

After looking at lots of beautiful, expensive homes and some expensive crap, we found a place that needed enough work for us to make it our own, but not too much work (laughing to myself right now). It's in a transitional neighborhood (transitional meaning that we think only one neighbor sells drugs) on the Near East side of Indy.

Now, the inside was not georgeous but it had a lot of potential. Only one room had hideous wallpaper - and I mean hideous. We pulled up a corner of carpet, found hardwoods below and hoped for the best condition possible.

Click here to see photos of our home before we touched anything. (warning: don't worry, that's not our furniture!)

We never really liked the outside of the house. I mean, it was clean and everything...it was just boring. When they put the not-so-gleaming white aluminum siding on they covered up all the window/door trim and boxed around all the brackets. Oh, and we just loved the corrugated metal back porch, the decorative columns were just plain amazing. (Hope you notice the sarcasm here.) One big plus...not much mowing and the huge Silver Maple in the front yard (ok, that was two pluses).

Click here to see photos of the exterior in all it's aluminum glory.