The Triangle House

As many of you know, we recently took the momentous step of buying our first house. It was a last minute decision, we weren’t planning on buying anything until I finished my graduate program. We took this step because we couldn’t afford to rent a home that suited our needs. But ironically we could afford to buy one. So in the end it was an easy decision.

Our number one priority in looking for a new house was staying downtown. We love living in the city but we were afraid that real estate would be just out of our reach. Well there was literally one house that we could afford that suited our needs. The triangle house…

I was driving around one day and saw a for sale sign up and just knew that this would be our home. I was instantly attracted to the charming art deco features and George loved the house because of its distinctive shape. I bet you would never guess that he came up with the name “the triangle house”.

Anyway, we put in an offer and after the typical wrangling, the triangle house was ours! We actually signed the papers in Oregon when we were visiting my family so when we got back to Denver two weeks ago it was time to get to work. The nice thing about the house was that there were no major repairs to do, we could have moved into it as is. However, there were quite a few cosmetic features that neither Brandon or I wanted to live in, specifically the popcorn ceilings.

The walls of the living room and dining room are a highly textured plaster so between that and the awful popcorn it made the space feel like a dark, oppressive cave-like. I don’t have great pictures, I took these right after a 9 hr. car ride and so I wasn’t thinking about how to best capture the space at the time.

But you can get the idea that there were some less than ideal features. The paint colors that the previous owner chose were horrendous.

Yep, that’s an orange hallway. There was also a blood red stairwell with red, white and blue pendent lights…it was not attractive.

There has been and still is a lot of work to do but the kids are so excited about our new house.

So that makes the hard work that Brandon and I have been doing for the past two weeks totally worth it.

It started with the popcorn. It took a full week to scrape all of that popcorn off. To say it was back-breaking labor would be an understatement.

Of course, George and Sylvia were tremendously helpful.

And you know you’ve spent more time at Lowes than anybody ever should when the paint guy knows your children by name.

But the popcorn removal and painting have paid off. Here’s what the ceilings look like now.

And that dreadful orange hallway is now a calming shade of grey.

This upper living space is so beautiful now; it’s light and clean, everything Brandon and I were hoping for.

There’s still a lot of work to be done on the rest of the house but our new triangle house is beginning to feel like ours now and we can’t wait to spent the next phase of our lives here.

Stay tuned for further home improvement projects plus some of the most beautiful family pictures you have ever seen…

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