Kelly and I are very excited to have bought our very first home. The time couldn't have been any better with a buyers market, low interest rate, and a government tax credit of $8,000 for first-time home buyers. After a little under a year of searching, we finally found "the one" only after we had given up hope of finding "the one". The first time we saw the house located at 1007 Dale Drive was while we were riding our bicycles around the neighborhoods looking at homes for sale.
We went under contract April 16, 2010 and closed on the house on Monday, May 10, 2010. The sellers provided the survey, completed in 2007, and we have had our inspection and appraisal completed. It is a one story house, with 3 beds and 2 baths coming in at 1,330 square feet. It was built in 1980.
The purpose of this blog is to highlight the ongoing transition that our house has made in the time that we have been there. I intend to turn our abode from a cute, suburban, neighborhood home into a bold, modern, model home of eco-consciousness. Every upgrade, renovation, remodel, and change we make to the house will have an environmentally friendly design and purpose. From energy savings, to thermal insulation, to recycling and composting, to an organic garden, to simple facelifts that are more eco-friendly, I hope to make our home a model for what anyone can do to their house in order to make a smaller footprint on the Earth we live upon.
For every change we make to our house, I will document why we chose what we did, what purpose it serves - both in the home and for the environment, where or with whom we found the product, how much it cost, and how difficult it was to implement. I will be as detailed as possible in hopes that you can follow in kind.
If everyone who reads this blog can implement just one of the ideas, together we can reduce hundreds of pounds of CO2, thousands of kilowatts of electricity, and millions of gallons of water.
"The Earth is not inherited from our parents, rather it is borrowed from our children" -Chief Seattle
