We Can Has House!
Dec. 18th, 2010 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treefrogWe looked at the potential new house today and we've decided to take it. It really is a lovely house, nice and bright with plenty of room.
The top floor has three bedrooms. The master bedroom is smaller than our bedroom now, but that's ok because we won't need to fit my bookshelves into it. I'll be claiming the leftover upstairs bedroom as a library/office sort of place. The living room is nice with two large windows and a new laminate floor. There are two linen closets in addition to the entry way closet.
The kitchen is smaller than I would like, with less counter space and less cupboard space than I have here. We figure we can put up cheap wooden shelving to make up for the lack of cupboard space. The cupboards need to be stripped and repainted, too, which we might do over the summer. We're also going to need a throw rug in the upstairs hallway because the laminate tiles there are old and falling off. The previous occupants moved in halfway through renovations, from what I can tell, so the balance of new and old is a bit odd.
The basement is about half-finished and has two bedrooms in addition to a large common area. The bedrooms are unfinished and not really suitable for use as bedrooms, but that's perfectly fine. One of them is oddly shaped and will make an excellent storage closet. The other one is totally unfinished, but has a window. Dave will be claiming that one as a workshop, because it won't matter if he makes a mess there. We're planning to set up the TV downstairs along with our more cat-scratched furniture, and put the less cat-scratched furniture in the front room.
The back yard is awesome. It's huge and has a tarmac area and—major selling point for us—a concrete fire pit. We are great fans of cookouts, and while I'm sure we'll still drive out to Hawrelak Park on occasion, it'll be nice to have them in our own back yard.
So far, the only thing that really, really annoys me about the house is that it is yellow. I hate yellow. Yellow is for flowers and butterflies, not houses. Ah well. I can deal.
We tried not to rant to our landlord too much about our downstairs neighbor, but that only opened the way for him to rant to us about her. He's been dealing with her shenanigans longer than we have, and will probably have to clean up after her when she leaves. They're working on putting together a case to evict her, because they know that they can't rent this suite as long as she's infesting the basement.
I asked why we're getting this place for so cheap, and he said that the previous family had been there for years and they had never raised the rent. They're doing just fine getting that amount of money from the place. He admitted that yes, they could probably get quite a bit more for it if they put it on the market. What it boils down to is, they're doing us a favor. We're grateful. We're very, very grateful.
Now... moving. Finding boxes, getting packed, hauling stuff around... siiiiiigh. I'd hoped it would be a couple of years before I had to go through this again, but it appears to be worth it.
The top floor has three bedrooms. The master bedroom is smaller than our bedroom now, but that's ok because we won't need to fit my bookshelves into it. I'll be claiming the leftover upstairs bedroom as a library/office sort of place. The living room is nice with two large windows and a new laminate floor. There are two linen closets in addition to the entry way closet.
The kitchen is smaller than I would like, with less counter space and less cupboard space than I have here. We figure we can put up cheap wooden shelving to make up for the lack of cupboard space. The cupboards need to be stripped and repainted, too, which we might do over the summer. We're also going to need a throw rug in the upstairs hallway because the laminate tiles there are old and falling off. The previous occupants moved in halfway through renovations, from what I can tell, so the balance of new and old is a bit odd.
The basement is about half-finished and has two bedrooms in addition to a large common area. The bedrooms are unfinished and not really suitable for use as bedrooms, but that's perfectly fine. One of them is oddly shaped and will make an excellent storage closet. The other one is totally unfinished, but has a window. Dave will be claiming that one as a workshop, because it won't matter if he makes a mess there. We're planning to set up the TV downstairs along with our more cat-scratched furniture, and put the less cat-scratched furniture in the front room.
The back yard is awesome. It's huge and has a tarmac area and—major selling point for us—a concrete fire pit. We are great fans of cookouts, and while I'm sure we'll still drive out to Hawrelak Park on occasion, it'll be nice to have them in our own back yard.
So far, the only thing that really, really annoys me about the house is that it is yellow. I hate yellow. Yellow is for flowers and butterflies, not houses. Ah well. I can deal.
We tried not to rant to our landlord too much about our downstairs neighbor, but that only opened the way for him to rant to us about her. He's been dealing with her shenanigans longer than we have, and will probably have to clean up after her when she leaves. They're working on putting together a case to evict her, because they know that they can't rent this suite as long as she's infesting the basement.
I asked why we're getting this place for so cheap, and he said that the previous family had been there for years and they had never raised the rent. They're doing just fine getting that amount of money from the place. He admitted that yes, they could probably get quite a bit more for it if they put it on the market. What it boils down to is, they're doing us a favor. We're grateful. We're very, very grateful.
Now... moving. Finding boxes, getting packed, hauling stuff around... siiiiiigh. I'd hoped it would be a couple of years before I had to go through this again, but it appears to be worth it.
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Date: 2010-12-19 08:36 pm (UTC)