House Photos

The post everyone has been waiting for! Let the tour begin. (I'm about to test how many photos I can post to the blog at one time...)

First let's see the outside:












Then the backyard and deck:










Step inside:




The kitchen is to your right:





You can see the front yard from the bay window:




Straight ahead is the livingroom/dining area:







We're keeping the couches for the living room. Putting the futons downstairs.

Upstairs you'll find a bathroom at the top of the stairs:




We don't have good photos of the master bedroom, but here's a hint:






There are two more rooms upstairs:











And now down the stairs...





To the basement.







There are hookups for surroud sound built into the wall. This will the the entertainment/video gaming/TV room. Complete with a gas fireplace.






There is also a second loo down here:






That's the quick tour. Hope it wasn't too confusing. We'll post again in a few months (say, September) once we have our own furniture set up.
So, when can everyone make it for the house-warming BBQ? :)

Things for the house

When we get the house, it will have plenty of green growing things to put on the deck and in the sunny living room. (I have 6 more plants around the house, but these are the new ones.)








I can't wait to pick some fresh herbs from our garden... if they ever stop baking outside first! I thought plants were supposed to like the sun... And yes, I give them plenty of water. And yes it drains properly. I'm keeping them in partial sun now.

Mandy

House Buying

Well, the negotiated offers have been accepted. We've agreed to purchase the house pending a home inspection by engineers. We hope to do that Tues or Wed when Robin does not have to work. We'll bring our camera then and be able to send photos as soon as we get home :)

The possession date is July 15, which will give us a couple weeks to move and do any painting etc we might want to do. Well, it will give me one week and will keep Robin busy while I'm in Germany. (That's another unconfirmed story)

I suppose this series of posts is rather anti-climactic for readers... you don't get the full sense of the tensions... lol You get the end before the beginning.
Mandy

House Hunting - Part Two

Our second time out looking at homes was far more successful than Tuesday.
So successful that we have put an offer on a house.
Our agent took photos, but we don't have them yet. However, we will know by 10pm if they have accepted/revised (but doubtful that they will refuse) our offer. :) It's very exciting!!!
Robin is at work right now. I wonder how he can sit there waiting... at least he has something to do.
So why did we pick this house? Great location, quiet cul-de-sac, decent yard (sloped, but terraced and fairly deep), nice porch, large sunny living room, finished basement with rec room and gas fireplace, 3 bedrooms, dining area, decent kitchen, appliances fairly new and included, and in our middle price range.
I'll add some photos as soon as I have them.
Mandy
(V, sorry you didn't get to vote. )

House Hunting - Part One

We took our first house hunting tour on Tuesday (two days ago).
OMG. It was scary! It wasn't the thought of investing a lot of money, making a big committment to a place etc. It was just the houses. Some of them were VERY scary!!!
One house obviously had an unneutered male cat... the basement reeked of cat spray. Others were not as described. Some we didn't even bother to enter. If there was no yard, then it wasn't even a consideration.
But one house topped them all: it had shag carpeting ON THE CEILING. Yes, on the ceiling. It was musty and dark. Carpet everywhere (despite the add saying hardwood floors, apparently under the carpet), including the bathroom. And there were two covered porches, front and back, very old. The back one was clearly rotted our beneath the carpet. One jump and it would be gone! I ran away. Almost literally. But mostly I was just shocked. ANd then very disappointed. It seemed we would never find anything we really liked. :(
Then we did find an amazing renovated home. Great fully finished basement. Lovely eat-in kitchen. But, it's on a busy road, akin to Jubilee (in Winnipeg; for those in KW it's Victoria St).

So we are off again tomorrow morning to see more. This time we'll be looking at semi-detatched homes (ie, they share one wall with a neighbour). All the Tuesday houses were single detatched and older homes. The worst feature of older homes is the teeny rooms upstairs with sloping walls - nowhere to fit furniture even if we could get it up the narrow stairwells.

Jen, I hope that is a sufficient update for you.
Veronica, we didn't take any pictures yet because there was nothing we are seriously considering. But we will place pictures of our favourites when they arise and everyone can vote/comment :)
I wish I had a photo of the shag ceiling to share though...
Mandy