Our new home...eewwww!!

On June 20th escrow closed on our old house, and on the 21st it closed on our new house. Could not have cut it any more close! As soon as we heard word on the 21st that everything closed Adam and I headed over to the house to check things out. The previous owners were smokers and were aparently not very fond of using a vacuum. All the walls in the house were disgusting yellow and the carpets were just thrashed. We were able to get into the house a week before it closed and run an ozone machine to get rid of the smoke smell (which it did) and then we had to paint and replace flooring for the cosmetic work. I am actually very glad we had to do this since it gave us an opportunity to put our personal touch on the house. Here are a few pictures of the house the day we took posession.

Looking from the front door into the entry way and up the stairs. Notice how disgusting the carpet is and the ugly pink marble on the floor...YUCK!
Here is Adam opening the front doors for the first time after the close of escow. The first thing we brought with us to the new house was our crusifix. Adam carried me over the threshold just as he did on our wedding day in our condo and also the day escrow closed on our Mammoth house. How romantic!!
One other good example of the yuckness. This is our master bedroom. You can see how terrible the floor is and also how all of the silk roman shades were just trashed from the years of smoke in the house. It is amazing how much the room was opened up once we took down the window covering above our sliding door. We had a lot of work to do!