Of course there are still quite a few things that really need to be done, but they will have to wait until we have some more money. We did all of the stuff that was absolutely necessary. The downstairs bathroom cost us about two thousand dollars to renovate, that was not an option. We found an Irvine shutters store which is going to replace the broken shutter beside the front door. However, while that looks terrible it is not really essential. We fixed it any way, because everyone who comes over has to walk past it on the way to the front door. More importantly we could see it every time that we came home and it was very annoying to know it could be fixed. I took the shutter down and tried to figure out a way to either fix it or make it look like someone had fixed it temporarily.
At any rate the big thing is the kitchen. The house was built in 1974 and the kitchen is forty five years old, it looks like it is straight out of the Brady Bunch or one of those other old sit coms. At any rate we have gotten a good number of quotes, some better than others and none of them in the range that we could afford them now or get a loan to pay for it. It shall probably be about six months or so. Of course we would really like to get new appliances. The ones that we brought here were second hand when we bought them right after the two of us got out of college and moved back to this part of California. I am not going to get too upset about keeping them awhile longer, the money just is not there to spend on that.
