adventure is my middle name: This Old House

We have a family joke; that whenever we see a house that needs a lot of work we say our Aunt and Uncle would buy it. And when I say a house that needs a lot of work, I mean a LOT of work! Usually the houses that earn this comment have boards on windows, are missing some sort of a roof, or other major improvements needed. I shouldn't have been too surprised when my dad called me the other day to say that his brother bought a "real fixer upper".

We decided to have a family work party for all of us living in WA. I say party because it isn't a family gathering without food. After a tour of the house we decided the most sanitary place for the food was on the beautiful front porch. So the chips, soup on a camp stove, salad, and beer was kept out front. We ate first and then decided we would work for a few hours then take a walk.

Their new house was built in 1906. Luckily the roof was redone recently and a new furnace has been installed. So the outside of the house is pretty good (well after they got the foundation leveled last week, there were 4 inches of difference before that!!).

"Potential" seemed like the most common word of the day! It is going to be a beautiful home and it even comes with a view of Lake Washington and on a clear day the Cascades. The entire inside of the house needs updating: walls re-plastered, the floors refinished, walls repainted, bathrooms redone, and kitchen entirely replaced. =) I forgot to include all new electric wiring in that list and plumbing!

Here are some pics, as they say a picture is worth a thousand words!