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ceejay74

I'm the CFO of a three-adult, two-child, two-cat household. There's me (CJ, age 49), my husband (NT, age 50), my wife (AS, age 44), and our kids AA (age 13) and SL (age 11). The cats are named Whiskey and Clue and they're about 12 years old.

Until July 2007 we hadn't been serious about financial stability, but then we started focusing on paying down our massive debt, building an emergency fund and saving for retirement. In October 2010, we finished paying off all of our credit card debt--over $70,000! Adding in student loans and mortgages, we've paid off more than $250,000 of debt so far. In June 2015, we used a windfall to pay off all our remaining non-home-related debt!

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Big picture goals:

Buy a rental property in Minneapolis in 2022

8x income by age 65 OR Coast FIRE by 2031 (tracking retirement in two ways at the moment)

Completely debt-free by age 65 (2039)

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Before and after house pics

December 5th, 2015 at 06:42 pm

I finally took "after" pics so I could share all the decorating we've been doing for the past few months!

You can see "before" photos

here.

You can see "after" photos here.

Here's the door we got rid of

And what it looks like now

Here's the archway we got rid of

And what it looks like now

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13 Responses to “Before and after house pics”

Jenn Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 07:27 pm 1449343670
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Your home has so much character! Very nice. I have to admit that I liked the archway.
Petunia 100 Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 07:45 pm 1449344712
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Your house is gorgeous! The decorating choices are nice too.
MonkeyMama Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 08:30 pm 1449347435
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I liked both the before and after. It looks great either way!
ceejay74 Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 09:32 pm 1449351137
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Thanks! We did keep the archway between the living room and dining room, but the one in the living room just made it hard to use the whole room. It cut off about a fifth of the room from the rest of the living room. Like the door we had removed, it was for some other use of the space that didn't make sense for how we wanted to use it.
PatientSaver Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 09:42 pm 1449351751
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I liked the archway too. I would have painted it white or something maybe. Also LOVE the leaded glass windows...to die for.
MonkeyMama Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 09:42 pm 1449351776
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I thought it was pretty but I could see that it is definitely more functional without the archway.
ceejay74 Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 09:50 pm 1449352203
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Well ... the one we kept is even prettier. https:// www. flickr.com/photos/21902614@N03/23515948766/in/dateposted-public/
Laura S. Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 10:31 pm 1449354664
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It looks great both ways, but I have to agree with some others. I love the archway!
snafu Says:
December 5th, 2015 at 10:55 pm 1449356152
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My old, MacBook Art is giving me fits. The wall colors aren't coming out 'true' as I changed photo dimension from super narrow to normal size.
Carol Says:
December 6th, 2015 at 01:24 am 1449365061
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Thanks for the pictures. It came out great! The radiator covers are as handsome as can be!
Joan.of.theArch Says:
December 6th, 2015 at 02:04 am 1449367493
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Absolutely charming home! I understand why it works better without the archway. My house and those surrounding it have something like that going on with the entry area and living room. Most people did what you did to make the living room effectively bigger. Mine was handled differently when a previous owner added a second story and used the "useless" area for stairs. Another person uses theirs as teensy little parlor, which was probably the original use in our homes.
FrugalTexan75 Says:
December 6th, 2015 at 03:01 am 1449370861
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Beautiful!
alice4now Says:
December 6th, 2015 at 12:16 pm 1449404208
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What a great place! We don't have places like this where I live so it's a treat to peek into a "real" home!

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Before and after house pics

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