The Wright's Stuff!: Out with the Old & in with the New: EXTREME WRIGHT MAKEOVER

The OLD.... 2305 TANGLEWOOD
As many of you know, at the beginning of June, we sold our house. To be honest, I cried for a week (I, as in Aubrey, Clint was sad...but didn't shed a te

ar! ). We call it our Tanglewood House and it was our first home. We had so many memories there. Although we lived in the "Harn" first for 2 years when we were married, Tanglewood was our first house. I cried when Clint took me to look at it and s

aid we were going to buy it, as then it was a time warp and needed SO much work. However, Clint had vision and a beautif

ul vision it was! It turned out to be the most beautiful home! Everything in that house Clint had done; moved walls, redid plumbing, painted walls, tiled, laid the hardwood floor (that came from the old East High School in Sioux City Iowa!), built the kitchen cabinets, built the fire

place mantel, you name it and he did it . I think that was why it was so hard to leave. There were tears when we bought it, and then tears when it was time to leave.

However, like my Dad always told me when I was little, "All good things must come to an end.." and we sold it!! It was a bit unexpected, as we decided very quickly to sell. We put our house on the market and had 4 good offers in 24 hours! Needless to say we ecstatic! It made living in a war zone of construction for 5 years completely worth it! We closed and moved out a month later.

THE INTERIM.....APT #1025At the beginning of June we moved into an apartment....what a change! I don't have a picture, but honestly an apartment is an apartment...let's be honest! Picture your typical beige carpet, beige walls, white trim, and ugly linoleum tiled floors...and there you have it! We like to call it "Home Sweet , Temporary, Home!"

THE NEW....2920 S CREEKWOOD DR.So now we have begun project #2. We bought a house that backs up to a park with a creek behind it...Trinity will be in "little-kid heaven" when she gets a little older! It's a beautiful propery, a wonderful neighborhood, and a huge yard.....however there is one little TWIST...The house is just a shell. Yes, what you are thinking is correct...the outside looks like a normal house (well except for the fact that it

has been vacant for over a year...), but the inside is just studs, no plumbing, no walls, no sheetrock, no electricity, no ceilings...you get the picture. Let's just call it "Clint's Dream!" So our new home is a project in itself, but we are excited about the completion (will it ever done?!).

Our future living room (view from the kitchen)

This is the future master bedroom & bathroom. We actually have plans to "swap" the two rooms. Currently the master bathroom is at the back of the house. But we want the view of the backyard/creek from our bedroom, so we are swaping the two rooms in the floorplan.

This is looking into the kitchen from the living room, the laundry room is to the back left and the dining area is on the right (we are actually removing all of these walls, so it's all open with just an island in the middle.)