Robert Vrabel

I posted a couple pictures of the house on flickr.  It’s still all coming together but these rooms are about as good as they are going to get for awhile.  We still need to hang some things on the walls throughout the house.  We are also looking into purchasing drapes/blinds for the windows, and doing the flooring. throughout the house.  This will just come over time as we find what we like. I will be posting a couple more of the rooms as they finish as well.  I am almost done with the burgundy 1/2 bathroom.

Link the flickr set.

It’s been awhile since I last posted so I thought its about time for an update.  The move to the new house was very successful, thanks to everyone who helped!  I had the whole week off to transition into the house while still living at the apartment.  This helped a lot, i was able to get a ton of things done. More than I thought I was going to be able to.

I spent every day from about 8am-10pm working at the house and the apartment at night.  It was a lot of work, but it was great to see everything coming together.  The more I worked, the more It made me want to do more.  I had the most motivation to do things that I have had in a long time, I really enjoyed customizing the house to our needs.  Thankfully the energy has still carried on after my first week back at work.  I have been working after dinner until about 11pm unpacking the garage and setting things up.  By the end of the weekend we should have everything in the house in its proper place.

One thing we changed that made a huge difference was replacing all the outlets, light switches, covers, and duct covers to white ones.  They were all beige and very old/dirty as I assume they were all original.  Replacing those on top of the painted rooms really made it have a brand new look.  They are extremely cheap also, it comes out to be around $1.00 to do each one.  It was very time consuming changing them, but the hard work really paid off.  I have only done the Great room and the 3 bedrooms for now so we could start putting stuff against the wall and plugging stuff in.  I will continue the rest of the house once we move all our stuff in.

I’ve been enjoying learning new things around the house.  I have learned so much already and I really enjoy being able to do things on my own. I’m looking forward to organizing and finishing the rest of the house.  Its great to not go home and sit on the couch every night like I was in the past couple months prior to moving in.  I feel like i am much more active right now and I get a great feeling of accomplishment each day.  All I can say is I look forward to coming home after work each day, it’s all I think about right now!

I will be posting before/after pictures soon after the weekend once we get everything settled in, so stay tuned for those.

We just purchased our first house over the weekend! It is located in a wonderful subdivision out in Farmington Hills. We should be moving in mid July. We had our home inspection yesterday and it went VERY well. The people who did it said the house is in excellent condition. There was a couple of problems we found but nothing major. Should be a busy summer this year, can’t wait!