Believe it or not, Brian and I put an offer on this house without even seeing it. The owners put it on the market but weren't doing showings for another couple of weeks, and we knew it would go fast. So we checked the size of the lot, put a lot of contingency language that would get us out if we realized we just made the biggest mistake of our lives, and said a prayer.
So when we actually got the chance to look at the house that we were buying, one of the things we loved was this 150+ year old tree in the backyard. We loved it right up until we bought the house and realized it took up all our yard, its roots were growing into our sewer line and cracking it, and it probably was about to fall over on our house due to being stressed from drought. So, down it came. This is what the backyard looked like with the garage and junk of the previous owners:
I drove by last week after they had taken it down (along with the garage) and almost crashed my car. It's amazing how much bigger the lot actually looks when all of the overgrown plants and shrubbery are ripped out.
Now we have moved on to picking out finishes. 4 hours at Ferguson made me need a drink badly. But we got a lot done and someday soon you'll be sitting on this in our guest bathroom!
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