Project #4 fun

Ian on the roof with Daddy.

Tuesday hiding in the new windows.

Project #4: Kirtland; 6 CR 6257

This was the other Navajo Prep house we bought.

Then Arin picked it up and delivered it to our property in Kirtland.
(or we had some crazy house mover do it...which ever you want to believe)

Here it is after it was moved, before much was done to it.

I've decided to change how I've been posting about our remodels. So I'll just make a whole series of each house. and show the progress and the kids playing there, etc. I'll see if this makes it easier, or more entertaining. :) then when all is said and done I'll do a before/after post :)

PS we sold our last house and are very glad we did :) Now we are crossing our fingers that we can be as lucky with this house as we have been with the past three.

Sold!! (almost)

Our house has been up for sale for 24 days!

We have an agreement to close on September 1st now!

YAY!

Project #3: Fruitland, 728 CR 6100

This is the finished product of Arin's hard work.

Before & After pics.

The lot before we did anything to it. . . a burnt down house left a trashed basement and tons of garbage. And now.

exterior:

Boiler/HWH room (formerly the stairwell):

Bedrooms:
#1:

#2:

Bath:

Hallway:

Laundry Closet: (formerly a storage/potato closet)


Kitchen:

Dining:

Living:

* This was kind of an interesting one...We bought this house from Navajo Prep, they needed to get rid of it for some construction they were doing. This was the first of two that we bought. Here are a few pictures of the house being lifted off of the foundation/basement and driven down the road to Fruitland. Then being placed on the new foundation. *

This was a major project. We still aren't sure if we'd do it again...but too late to reconsider now. It was definitely a learning experience.

getting ready to hook on and take off.

It's old location.

lifted off of the old foundation

the floating house.

the front.

Here is the basement it was torn from.

cruisin up Harper Hill. (I'm sure glad I wasn't following behind this beast...sorry to those who were)

Is that a house on wheels? definitely not a trailer...

seriously? isn't this bizarre?

new foundation

not an easy task to get it to sit just right.

still trying to line it up.


(If you are noticing the dates, we had to move this one shortly after we bought our Bloomfield one [#2], so we weren't quite ready to set it. It sat up on I-beams for a few months while we finished up our house in Bloomfield and got the foundation made. Then we called the movers back to set it. We were forced to move our 2nd house from Navajo Prep shortly after setting this one. It sat for a while on beams too, but has recently been set on the foundation. (post will follow)

It was definitely a wild and crazy few months with the conflicting schedules, finding/buying land to place the other house, moving/buying a new house for ourselves, crazy weather, frozen ground, extreme mud and several illnesses.

But we are finally finished!

* For those of you being observant...yes, this is right next door to our #1 project in Fruitland. We originally bought that house and the adjoining lot. We sold the house, but kept this lot. . .*