I moved to northeast Florida to a new construction home. Big change from the foreclosure fixer upper I came from, but not any less work. I went into this knowing it’s not a perfect house. It’s seriously lacking in storage – of any kind. I’m going to be on a mission to utilize every square inch of useable space since I’m downsizing big time.
The house is also builders grade, builders grade, builders grade. I’m not knocking it – it provided me a home in the price range I could afford – but sometimes builders grade isn’t great quality and it tends to be kind of boring and lacking in pizzazz. The house is pretty plain and badly in need of some personality.
I spent 9 hours driving here and immediately hit the house with my camera to catalog what it looked like starting out without furniture, without anything — well my dog Ellie and a backpack.
So this is my starting point gallery. Not really of any use to anyone other than myself. I want to see where I started so I can compare to where I end up.
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Hitting the ground running
The morning after I arrived, and before the moving truck was to arrive I got up and painted the garage. One of the cost cutting measures for my home apparently was not painting the garage. I wanted it painted. I would never have the opportunity again to paint an empty garage. I took it.
As soon as the garage was painted I went to Home Depot, the closest big box store, and purchased a 4’ x 8’ sheet ¾” MDF and had them cut shelves for the kitchen pantry. Three wire shelves were pitiful.
Next up was doing something with the master closet since it had wire shelves that were so high I couldn’t touch them. Apparently they were installed for an NBA player.
More on both of these projects later.
Now here the starting point gallery.
