Here we go, again

If you know me, you know that I love decorating my home, and that I love to do as much of it as I can myself, well with my husband's help on many occasion. It's a wonderful feeling to do it myself. I take my inspiration from all over, internet image searches, reading my favorite blogs, and what I see around me.
That all said, my love for decorating is hopefully going to be coming in handy in the coming months. My husband and I bought a house in 2007, built it from the ground. We chose everything construction grade with every intention of upgrading it throughout the years. Well then came the economic down turn. My husbands job transferd us up north and we had to rent our house out, as we were unable to sell it with out taking a huge lose that we could not afford. Well long story short we ended up moving back to the area and we plan on moving back into our house sometime this year. There is not a set date yet as our renters don't know we are moving back in and their lease is not up until November (*sigh*), we are hoping they will move out sooner as we are not going to charge them to break their lease. We are ready to have our home back.Though our orignal plan was not to move back in, but that did not work out, so we have adjusted and are changing our plans. We still love our house we now just want to make it an even more special home.
We recently did a home inspection with our property manager, so we could make a list of what was going to need to be done to the house we moved back in. Boy was that a difficult thing to do, understatement of the year. Before the inspection we had never met our renters, they were nice, but lets just say that their stander for a clean house are not the same as ours. We are not clean freaks by any means, but boy did we feel like we were after seeing our house in a not so clean state. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings so lets just say there will be a lot (*cough*, a ton, *cough, cough*) of work to be done when we move back in.
We are starting to make a list which has been getting longer and longer, of what will need to be done. We are trying to be prepared now so that we can do a lot of the work in a week when we get the house back. More on that list in another post to come.
So that's the long story, short. I plan chronicling our experience with this blog and also showing my decorating ideas and projects. Like I said at the beginning of this post, I love to do a lot my self. So stay tuned for more posts, and here's to DIY home improvements and decorating.

**Note, the picture in this post is the front of our house, probably taken in 2008, I think.**