This post was written a few days ago but I hadn’t posted it yet.
We just got the word that they accepted our offer! We are officially in escrow!
So we put in our 4th offer on a new home and yes it is a new home. I know I said I hated those, but I may be changing my mind a little bit.
One come up on a search a few nights ago and it said it was on 1/3 acre. I thought that had to be wrong because new homes are on the tiniest lots possible, which is why I don’t like them. Well sure enough, it is on 1/3 acre. It sits on the end of a court, which is what I wanted! End of court homes always have large properties.
So I drove by yesterday to see if it was something we might want to look at and while driving through I couldn’t believe how many mommas were out walking and jogging with there kids. There are lots of landscaped walking trails and it was a clean neighborhood.
So we met with our agent at that house around 4:30p, which is the hottest part of the day. It always seems like we are out looking at houses at the hottest part of the day and during Cohen’s nap times!
It is a bank owned property. 4 bedroom 2.5 bath and 2500sqft. It is a 2 story, which I don’t like and the laundry room is down stairs while all the rooms are up. How does that make since?? Please tell me builder of the house! The house was built in 2006 and has a formal dining room, living room and a kitchen open to the family room. It has a 3 car tandem garage (meaning it looks like a 2 car garage but when you are inside one of the sides of the garage extends back 1 more car space. Matt LOVES this)
The outside has blue shutters and a blue door. Not a fan of that. If we get it, we will be changing that color.
The best part!! The backyard is HUGEEEEEE. The back fence spans 3.5 houses. It has lots of pathways and flower beds already laid out… they were going for low maintenance gardening so there is lots of gravel that we will be taking out. This is the reason we like the house. We have been thinking about if we want it or not and we keep going back to the fact that it sits on a third of an acre.
The house is closer to Matt’s work, so he will only have about a 30 mins drive.
No getting to the inside… the previous owners were wanting to change up the builder basic feel of the house but painting some stuff. however, they did not do it right. Everything cabinet, banister and fireplace they painted, they didn’t sand. They went right over the top of the lacquer on the oak. This means that if you aren’t careful, it will scratch right off. So if we get it, we will have to redo some stuff the correct way.
They also were not afraid of color or wall paper or stripes or sponge painting. Likes I said. Lots of painting to be done!
Here are some photos:
The toilet seat is up in this photo because the back of the toilet has been spray painted green and some decals were added to the top. Who paints a toilet??!
Ceiling in dining room. It is wall papered to look like tin. That is going to suck pulling down.
Pantry
2 comments:
I'm so excited! Have you decided what the very 1st thing you're doing to do is the day you get the keys? Any idea what date that will be yet?
Congrats on the new house. Our laundry room is downstairs too, while all the bedrooms are upstairs. It really makes no sense. I usually just drop the laundry baskets down from the top of the stairs, lol.
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