Home Sweet Double Wide Home

 We Moved!!! In April we sold our house in Woodland and spent the summer camping with intentions of being in our new house shortly (that didn't pan out and I believe I would share the whole story in a different kind of blog)...now that school was starting we decided it was time to get a little more room. With the help of Darla we found this rental property. It's a double wide on 6+ acres in the perfect location. It needed a little TLC and who better to give the little manufactured home some of that than my sisters and I (not to exclude my husband)....

I fell in love at first sight....the Landlord had done a great job keeping the outside looking well kept, and lets face it after 4 months and 5 days living in a 32 foot trailer, I would have been elated with anything. Aaron and I had decided we didn't want to rent in a subdivision and anything with land would work for us..little did we know the potential this little trailer beheld.

Before-----Can you just see the potential??? Wait can you smell that? Is that musty? cigarettes? Dog pee?

 

After---All it really needed was a little love and 10 gallons of primer ;-)

 

Before---with the two fifty watt bulbs this kitchen needed a little light on the subject.

 

We thought white would work good, but I decided it didn't look quite right.

With the help of Bonnie and Lorinda and a bottle of furniture stain and glaze, it took less than an hour and the cabinets were all stained and looking like new.Before--I didn't think about it before but I really should have bought stock in primer before we got started.

 

I couldn't be more pleased with the results.

Meet Milkshake and his sidekick Little Llama. Aaron is in his glories and hopefully our mini farm is complete. Even if it's just for a year, for now I feel right at home...

Keep smiling,

Barbara