Meet Our Little Fixer Upper - We Bought A House!

If you follow me on Instagram you already know, but the rest of you WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! After nearly a decade of renting, it was time. 

Meet Amelia Hill House:

Taken back in those beautiful non-winter days in Minnesota!

She's a 1901 farmhouse across the street from a lake.

The name is after St. Amelia, patroness of farmers and fishermen. Apt for a farmhouse on a lake, and goes well with our vision for this to be a productive and fruitful home.

She is a little bit of a fixer upper.

We found some fun surprises during the inspection, like the remains of mice and bat parties in the attic, that mean the whole attic needs to be re-insulated and the house rewired.

But it's also a 117 year old house, so I'm not surprised.

Depending on how you count, it's between 4 and 6 bedrooms, 2 baths.

Plus a guest house!

All the better when you have large, out of state, families.

The guest house has it's own kitchen, bath, and fireplace.

The big design reno, that we are doing before we move in are the kitchen and the downstairs bath. 

Demo has already begun!

Before

Now, so long pink tile!

Some are longer term dreams that we will probably DIY.

Like turning the upstairs newly insulated garret area into a play room/day nursery, and the odd downstairs bedroom into a library.

We're excited to be on this journey, and I'm looking forward to never moving again!

After we move again. With three kids. For the second time in a year.

But then, never again!