Home Remodel

This is Matt's first post but don't get used to it. I may not get around to too many of these.

This is a little glance into our lives over the last 6 months. We bought the house in April. Gutted it and put it back together and moved in about 6 weeks! We couldn't have done it without all of our family and friends. Thanks to: Phil & Kathy, Lee & Teresa, Eric, Alex, Wayne, Josh, Tim & Mia, Jeremy & Brooke, Matt & Janelle. How blessed are we to have such great family and friends!

We found the house when I was driving around one day looking a list of potential real estate deals in the area we were looking at (42nd & Broadway). I got out to grab the flyer and the homeowner came out so I asked if I could walk through. The house was a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom & office, 1900 Sq. Ft. 2 story on a basement. It had more stuff packed in every room than Mom & Dad's Troyer's garage when we I looked at it but I saw past the junk and knew there was TONS of potential.

I called Nat and we setup a time to walk it together. We looked at it 1 more time with both of our dads before we put an offer in. We came in significantly below asking price, and she took our first offer!

We closed in like 2 weeks and left the 3 hour closing and immediately went to the house and started demolition, followed by working every night and weekend. It was SO much work but so rewarding. We turned it into a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath & office. We decided to turn one bedroom into a bathroom and close off the once only upstairs bath to give us a master bath.

Here is a brief summary of before and after pictures:

Living Room before:


Living Room after:


Office before:


Office after:


Dining Room before:


Dining Room after:


Kitchen before:




Kitchen after:




Master bath before:


Master bath after:


That is just a small look into our home. I will upload more of the outside which we are working on now. We have the inside 99% done with the exception of the basement. This weekend I am working on a new fence for the backyard for our 2 little monsters so they can run.



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