Hi everyone! My name is Shavonda and I’m a design-a-holic. Whew! I feel so much better now that I’ve gotten that off my chest. I’m incredibly excited to be an official member of blogland, USA and even more excited to share my home with all of you. So let’s start with a tiny bit of background, shall we.
My wife, Naomi, and I purchased our first house 11 months ago on Feb 2, 2011. It’s a 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bathroom, 2,000-something sq ft(more accurate stats coming soon) California tract house and we are absolutely over the moon about it. We love our house. We knew the minute we stepped foot through the door that this house was OUR house so we immediately put in an offer and it was acepted within an hour! The house was a short sale so it was a long, frustrating, oftentimes agonizing road to the finish line, but (6 mos later) we made it and we couldn’t ask for a better start to our adventures in homeownership.
Our first year in the house has been pretty uneventful. With the exception of painting a majority of the house within the first 5 days, we haven’t done much to it. Though we did have a few color choice FAILS(more on that later), we’ve been fairly hands off. We got married in August so all of our time, energy, and money was allocated toward that DIY project. Now that we are settled in and we’ve lived here for a year we know exactly how we live in our house and use our rooms so we are ready to tackle our project list, which, might I add, is about 3 miles long!! Hopefully you will join me as I document our attempt to take our first house from California tract house to our perfectly colorful home!
