Interest Rate

Locked in at 5.5% interest rate for the condo.  Not TOOO bad!  :)  I've decided to lay the laminate floors myself with help of some friends and family hopefully.  It'll save lots of money on contractor labor fees!  But I will pay someone to take care of my bathroom shower (putting in a wall insert).  I have the Espresso color paint to paint the bathroom vanity I'm buying from my friend Sandy.  We'll probably do that this weekend or the very near future.  Otherwise I need to be patient and put a little hold on all the planning.  The month of April will be sort of my last big waiting period before I know everything is official!
I am fairly sure I'm getting black appliances though so that's exciting  :)

Thinking........

Everyone cross your fingers for me that things play out nicely and in my favor over the next few months!  I really want everything to fall into place as I've intended and planned.  So please think positive!  I am very excited about my new home, and really excited to have these summer projects updating the condo.  It'll be lots of fun to have friends and family come over, help out, and I'll feed you all with food and beer (and the Corner Club)!  I imagine coming home after work, putting on my shorts and some good music, and painting cabinets, decorating, and organizing!
So let's all hope this all plays out how I'm hoping it will!

A Kitchen Idea - Thanks Carly!

I like this kitchen!  This is along the lines of what I've been thinking I would do with the kitchen.  Mainly painting the cabinets white (they are brown now) and doing some dark hardware, probably black.  I like the dark countertop and appliances too.  Yay for the idea, Carly!  Minus the green paint. Cute, but not for my kitchen.  My kitchen has the same kind of overhead cabinets like this one too!  Also, the laminate floor I'd like to lay will be similar in style/color to the floors you see here. 

Before

by the way, this is NOT my condo........these are examples of what white paint can do to transform a kitchen!  And don't fret--- I WILL post photos of what the condo looks like now and how it looks as I remodel, update, paint, etc.  Just haven't had a chance to upload the photos I have of the condo.  It has not been updated once, and was built in 1978 so just use your imagination  ;)

The Couch (or 'coach' as I said to Mom!)

Here is my new couch!  It's smaller than it appears in the picture.  Just the right size for a small condo!  I'm excited about it  :)  The colors in the place will be mostly neutral, with black accents in the picture frames and my 'Asian screen'.  So I think this color couch will be nice.  And great later in the future for a small tv room if I one day live in a larger house. 

Day one of my new blog

After watching the movie "Julia and Julie" I decided to start a new blog.  And it was a no-brainer to base it on my new adventure I'm about to embark on.  Buying my first home and remodeling it!  It is actually a condo, 603 square feet total.  So it's not like I'm buying my forever dream home, but it is a pretty cool little place for my first purchase.  And when I officially close on the condo, I am going to be pretty proud  :)

And if my plans to remodel really go through I'll be excited to learn how to do all these home improvement things and it'll give me another thing to be proud of !

I intend to use this blog to be able to vent all my ideas, thoughts, concerns, frustrations, excitement, and achievement to anyone out there in the blogosphere that cares  :)   Haha.

Plus I figure it's a good way for my friends and family that don't live here to keep up with all the excitement happening here in the little Idaho town I live in.

Get excited!  (In this photo, my condo is on the very top, the 3 windows on the left-hand side belong to my place)