WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HOMESTEAD!?

1. family is controlling (quote from my psychiatrist)

2. “Falling into” one thing or an other…

BUT A HOUSE!? 🤣 fall in and out of housing?! (#tonedeaf ?)

Without getting into the boring details; events have conspired/transpired

• Nationwide Lockdown

• my parents getting older (😟 and wow am i a baby b**** when it comes to that subject; my method is that i believe they are immortal until they are not. i know this is not good. i am working on it!)

• my family needing someone to take on this project…so i’m taking it on…

my mission: “run down home on a wooded 2 acre lot becoming a ‘functioning quaint homestead’” is on hold!😢 who knows how long. buts its okay! 💪

The New Current…Covid House Project…

We all love Home Reno, Projects, and DIY still, yeah? So, I hope this suburban home endeavor can still bring us Plenty O’ Good Stuff!

• Nothing I was expecting. But adapting is certainly a huge tenant of DIY, self-reliant values!

• No more chickadees.🐔😭

• No more cutting down trees and then using that lumber for infinite projects ☹

• Crap, i just felt my mood shift—thinking about it in detail does make me feel sad and regretful—so nevermind!

Most Houses in Charleston, SC are old, so there is no shortage of projects and opportunities to improve.

I thought I’d just go ahead and give you the stats on the house and the MLS photos here and now.

New Home New Project

• Single Family Ranch

• Built 1964.

• 2,333 sq ft.

  • this is where A LOT of valuable home reno episodes are going to come from.

    • the garage was converted improperly

    • a half bath was added horribly (score 3 out of 10)

    • the washer and dryer hook ups and vents were sealed up, no new one was installed

    • i’ll continue later

• 3 bed 2.5 bath

• crawl space foundation. slab foundation at the additions

• garage converted. sunroom added, tacked onto back of house.

• you’ll see my photos soon!

• 0.38 acres

Photos of the House Courtesy MLS

EXTERIOR

You can see, normally the fence would flank both ends of the house; but here the driveway has been extended into the backyard (making it tiny—aka the worst) and a detached aluminum garage has been installed.

Some of you property owners, gardeners, landscapers, out there might notice that small trees/large bushes shaped into trees have been planted Right Up On the house’s foundation—aren’t they going to have to go?

**These photos are older. The darker richer hued photos are a little newer. The property, as a whole, does not look so polished and manicured as it does in those photos (especially now that those shrubs have really grown).

any input on the oaktree, and anything about it, would be so so much appreciated. though in sc, i’ve actually never lived with a real live “live oak” before. does that 3ft mound of straw and who-knows-what seem suspicious? 😆😁

i’d like to make this a more intimate part of the process, at least just for now:

1. no one comments on my posts, im not sure if they can (!?) PLEASE COMMENT!!

2. and i feel a little vulnerable at this “grande unveiling”, which i didnt expect at all.

I’LL BE SENDING MORE PHOTOS OF THE HOUSE. I DECIDED TO JUST GO AHEAD & SEND THIS OUT NOW.

ANY THOUGHTS? ANY IDEAS? ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE?!

ANY FEEDBACK ON HOW THIS SITE WORKS ON YOUR END? I SEEM TO VERY OFTEN BE HAVING TROUBLE WITH IT.

AND FOR ANYONE THAT JOINED JUST FOR THE CHICKENS; DONT WORRY…WE GOT THE CHICKENS OF MY PAST…AND THE CHICKENS OF MY VERY NEAR FUTURE!! AS WELL AS FOSTER DOG!

I’D LOVE TO GET TO KNOW YOU GUYS, IVE BEEN WISHING FOR THAT SINCE DAY ONE. BUT I THINK SQUARESPACE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE PLATFORM OPTIMUM FOR THAT.

I HOPE EVERYONE IS OKAY DURING THIS WILD-SCARY-LOONEY TIME OF FRACTURED CIVIL COHESION AND INCONSISTENT VAGUE-TO-SEVERE THREAT ON OUR VERY BODIES.

I LOVE YOU