Operation: FIX THIS HOME

My husband and I feel very blessed that we were able to purchase our first home 6 months after getting married at only 25 years old. BUT, this is not our "forever" home. Every neighborhood has its pros and cons and ours is no different. Same goes for our actual home; there are things we love and things we hate. Unfortunately, we are stuck here until we pay off our school loans and can afford to build our forever home somewhere in the country with lots of land.

So until then...we will organize, we will redecorate, we will remodel, we will slowly but surely make this house a home and more importantly, improve it as much as possible for resell. You would think by what I'm saying we have only been here a few months, but it's actually been 4 years. Within weeks of moving into our home, we found out we were expecting. That really slowed the process of getting our house together. And just when we thought we were ready to get started again on home improvements, we were expecting again. I wouldn't change the timeline of our marriage, children, etc. for all the money in the world, but now that the girls are almost 4 and 2, we are ready to seriously start getting this home together for several different reasons.

We recently had our roof done. CHECK! Next is our master bath, which shockingly has been OUT OF ORDER since we moved in due to a broken shower pan. Once we realized the entire bathroom would need to be gutted to fix it, we placed this remodeling task on the back burner, but we are currently tackling it. Luckily, I married the perfect kind of man...the man that can do/fix anything. DIY projects are scary thoughts for the inexperienced, but with Stephen, they are a blessing (mostly because it saves us $$$). So far, we have only done the demolition. However, we have no timeline, which I think makes for the best kind of remodels. We have an additional full bath upstairs, so we aren't bathing in our sinks or anything. Here are some before photos:

As you can see, this is the original bathroom from when this home was built almost 50 years ago. I guess back then muted pink was a big hit for bathrooms. Even worse, our other bath is guacamole green, but that project is probably years away.

In addition to these serious remodeling tasks, we are doing some other smaller ones. I am currently in the process of putting our girls into one room. They are close in age and they are literally only in their rooms to get dressed and sleep, so they don't need a lot of individual space. That means that we will officially have a guest bedroom and our 4th bedroom is S L O W L Y becoming an updated office/classroom for the girls. *We still have not decided whether we are homeschooling (probably not), but we needed an area for what preschool work we are/will be doing because the playroom is not an area that I (or anyone else) would consider conducive with learning.*

Next up this summer is lots of landscaping work and eventually, a fence for the backyard (this project may be further away than I'd like).

What projects are you tackling in your home currently? What "dream" projects do you have in mind?