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froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:26

Hi everyone!
Where do I start. I have been away from 3D, acting, and pretty much all 'fun stuff' for far too long.

Here's the story.

We bought a house in 2014; it was a roof over our heads, but not much more than that.
We spent the last couple years fixing the place up; the tasking consumed my free time almost entirely. We fixed/replaced everything but the four outer walls pretty much. We put in sod where there was red lava rock in the front yard. Ugly as hell.

My wife's mom passed away April 26. We found out April 20 she had lung cancer. Six days later, she was gone.
That put the brakes on everything - full stop.

Then we decided to sell the house, so we spent the last 3 months or so with preparations, moving out 90% of our stuff, cleaned, painted the whole place, staged it, then did open houses for one weekend. We got one offer and took it. The buyers seem really happy with it so that's a good thing; maybe this is a good match between home and buyer. Fortunately the buyers needed 2 months before moving in, so we got that time in rent-back - the buyers paid extra, and at closing, the funds were deducted from our proceeds as 2 months worth of rent. That gave us time to look for another house.

So we are rounding the corner, and have no obligations with the house we sold - no mortgage, no fixing, etc. Just keeping the lawn mowed basically. And we are getting back into acting, voice over, 3d, music, etc. FINALLY.
My wife has booked a film gig, and is the host/emcee for a large international film festival in Boulder in September over the Labor Day weekend so Heck Yeah! The new home is much more appealing to us, with an abundance of positive creative energy. Turns out the sellers are filmmakers, so I think that's why the house 'clicked' with us.

I will post photos and a link to the real estate site for the new house soon. I cannot wait to get back into our normal life routine.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:34

let's see if I can do this.
This is the front of the old house before I ripped out the front hedge by hand. This was like a fort around the house to hide how unappealing it truly was, for the area.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:36

After I ripped out the front hedge, I took some photos. I call this 'body count'.
Later I removed the side hedges with an engine puller. Much easier.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:38

All the red and white rock had to be dug up. Originally the landscaper tried to use the Bagster bags, but they only hold about 3500 pounds. I could tell by looking that the rock in them was more like 10,000 pounds. So we had to get a dumpster instead.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:41

This is after the new sod was laid down, and a new sprinkler system was installed front and back yards. Works really well and looks great now. The centerpiece - I bought the flowers at 90% off or something since the season was pretty much over. They are doing well now. I had to dig up about 4 inches of white rock from the centerpiece where the flowers are now. Fun.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:44

This is how the upstairs bath used to look.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:48

Here is how the upstairs bath looks now.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:50

The downstairs bath looked like this before, while I was doing demolition.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 22:51

Here is how it looks now.

froo · Post by **froo** » 24 Aug 2016, 23:00

I don't have photos of the old kitchen here for some reason, but here is what the kitchen looks like now, so so much better.

clintonman · Post by **clintonman** » 25 Aug 2016, 01:18

Wow, someone's been very busy for a long time. Nice work and welcome back to the forums.

pugman 1 · Post by **pugman 1** » 25 Aug 2016, 06:44

Looking good froo ,lots of work

v3rd3 · Post by **v3rd3** » 25 Aug 2016, 08:24

Wow Froo.... you have earned not one.. but two serious "Attaboys".

Great work on the reno.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 25 Aug 2016, 11:06

Froo who? hmmmmmm

Just kidding!
Welcome back!!!

We missed you.

Fantastic work btw.

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 25 Aug 2016, 19:18

FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -g

Glad to have you come to the forums gain! The renovations on the bathroom and kitchen were swell! I saw you chained to a tree, lol

Looking forward to seeing your creativity again!

RAYMAN · Post by **RAYMAN** » 25 Aug 2016, 20:12

Draise wrote:FROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -g

! I saw you chained to a tree, lol

Looking forward to seeing your creativity again!

Hhhaaaaa! I saw him chained to Kodak theater during the acadamy awards.....!!!!

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 17 Sep 2016, 01:21

Froo is here!

Well of course your new house has good vibes: http://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/3 ... mghothouse

froo · Post by **froo** » 17 Sep 2016, 14:55

Haha yeah that is a pretty mansion Finis! Although we don't live in that sphere.

We did go to a pre- film festival party at an affluent neighborhood in Denver (Washington Park).
We had free wine, beer, and appetizers, but honestly we didn't fit in with that crowd. I don't know
what these folks do for a living but would like to know. The house was recently renovated; it looked ok.
Not our style. In the garage was a $100,000 Volvo. It was pretty. But yknow... it's not my thing.
For us, and maybe it's because we don't live there, the whole thing just felt artificial.
Anyway. We are two weeks out from today, when the moving truck comes.

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