The Lake House

It's officially ours! Jeff and I have been on a real journey over the past few months. We thought about selling our house, thought about buying some land, thought about buying a lake lot to set our camper on....the list goes on. With the housing market the way it is, and the fact that they are building a new subdivision behind our house, we knew that selling our house wasn't an option right now. However, we really wanted to get out of the city and be able to enjoy some big tress and the sounds of nature. We drove up to Lake Livingston one weekend on a whim and fell in love with it. It reminds us so much of Tennessee; there are even a few hills! Anyways, we knew that finding a weekend home on our budget would be very hard to do. After many trips out there, and some help from a local realtor, we found our cabin! O.k, it is a real fixer-upper but Jeff and I knew the house had lots of potential. We were worried if it would even still be standing after the hurricane, but it survived. Fiday we went up there and closed on it, and immediately got to work. This weekend we painted Lake's bedroom, made one of the restrooms usable and put two coats of primer on the dark paneling in the den. It needs a lot of TLC but we're up to the challenge. I thought I would include some pictures of our work in progress. Stay tuned as more improvements happen each weekend!