We were approved!

Our offer was excepted, without a counter offer so we didn't even have to raise the price. This is such an interesting occurrence as every other house we looked at had something about it that made us like it, but not be overly excited about the purchase. In our price range, we don't have amazing options to begin with, we knew we were going to have to upgrade the home ourselves.  Saturday morning an hour before our meeting my husband showed me a new listing that just came on RLMS or is it RMLS? Anyway I looked at the pictures and thought "are you kidding?" It was too good to be true. The house that we had an appointment to put an offer on (in one hour) was nice, but needed quite a bit of remodeling from the start. For starters it was pink, and that wasn't going to fly with my husband, secondly the carpet although nice and in excellent condition was white, which wouldn't fly with my dogs. So we would have had to put in new flooring, paint the exterior, and interior before we could move in. After that, and down the road we would have to update every bathroom, and especially the kitchen which was closed off to the living room. Honestly other than that the house was in great condition and had a beautiful yard and lots of easy to fix potential. With that said, we were not over the moon about it.

So back to the listing my husband was showing me right before we were going to put an offer on the "pink house" as we called it, he showed me this listing that was way better than the pink house and much cheaper, and in a better location. So we called our realtor and assumed it was going to be time consuming and potentially make the "pink house" unavailable. However he got us an appointment to see the house that evening and we made an offer right then. Obviously you know the end of the story. One other person bid on the house as well but was lower than ours, so we are now first time home owners. We are ready. We were overseas for the last four years, which hindered this process, but before that we just weren't ready, but now we are.  We will be in the house in a month and a half. In the meantime, it's time to find renovation ideas first up is updating the cabinets. I will show a picture of what they look like now and some ideas. Let me know if you have updated cabinets yourself, any tips?

 We can't afford to re-do the kitchen now, so I was thinking of painting the cabinets white, but with the white appliances it may be to much white. I will also add hardware to the cabinets. Maybe some back splash, and a new paint color. What though? Well it's time I get on Pinterest.