House-aversary

Do you celebrate your house-aversary? As of Tuesday we have lived in our home for 10 years. It honestly seems like it can't be that long - a whole decade! We purchased our house about six weeks before our wedding and then spent a couple months painting and furnishing. Thinking back over the years, it's fun to see the stamp we've put on our house. We've painted every room, put in wood floors, new carpet, added a few built-ins, replaced the roof, and updated numerous appliances. And that's just thinking about the actual house, not all the life events that have happened in the past ten years.

Carpet before:

Another before:

Afterish:

Kitchen bench before and after (we still need a cushion): 

Desk built-ins (we still need a chair):

Next on our list is a kitchen/bath redo (assuming we don't need a water heater before then). Our kitchen was navy blue when we purchased the house, we immediately painted it white and recently changed it to blue (white always has me seeing spots - it's an eye problem that won't go away).

Other items on our list (maybe in our next ten years):

• expand the patio
• built ins in our closet and laundry room
• new garage door
• replace some furniture
• replace some landscaping
• privacy fence
• redo the fireplace mantel and insert

Of course thinking of this is overwhelming, especially since it seems we've done so little in ten years. Then I remember we've been married, rescued a dog, and have had 3 babies all while living in this house (and suddenly we seem pretty productive).

Linking up with Annie and Natalie today for Thoughts on Thursday!