Pics from the Outside

Here are pics taken from outside the house.

This is the front porch. (Complete with a big tree!)
This is the east side of her, and that is a carport/outside lounge. :)Here's another view of the lounge. (And Austin's massive recyling containers!)
This is an outside storage shed, which actually is really well built and very big. Here's midway in the backyard looking at the house.
One advantage of this house is that I get to look at the pretty modern house just west of me. Here's what it looks like from the backyard.
Here's what that modern house looks like from the front. (Pretty!)
And this is the yellow house that I look at from my front porch.

Pics from the Inside

I will do my best to explain!

Here is the view when you walk through the front door. The fireplace and the white wall were the original back wall of this house!
This is the first bedroom which is right to the left when you walk in. (No worries, I'm definitely keeping the wood paneling!)
Peering through the arched doorway of the front room into the lovely kitchen. The door on the right is the entrance from the carport.
This is taken from the side door in the kitchen. you can see the rest of the kitchen and the front room beyond the arch. (That's the front door.)
This room is one of the three "bedrooms" where you can see another bedroom on the right and the kitchen on the left.
This is the bedroom in the middle of the house. You can see the ultra-modern house through the window.
Between the three "bedrooms" and the bathroom is a rather large utility room/closet.
And now we get to the bathroom, which is part of the added on section. Because, in 1900, there was no such thing as indoor plumbing!
Walk in shower, people! This is big money. ;)

And there we go... the inside of my new house! Not exactly move in ready yet...

And she's mine!

Hard to believe that I am a homeowner again! Over the past 18 months, I've grown to love my neighborhood so much. It's within half a mile of downtown and the trail... so close to everything, and vibrant with culture and character.

Ben (my fabulous agent/friend) has been a blessing as I've searched for the perfect house to buy. We also have had many discussions about how the right thing will happen when it's meant to happen. Well, as it turns out, this was meant to happen just a week after I returned from Ironman. We saw this place on June 29th, put the offer down on the 30th, won against the other contract, and by July 23rd - she was mine!

So... the details:

• This house was built in 1900. Yes, that is 109 years ago. And you can tell!
• It is about 1,100 square feet (3 bedroom, 1 bathroom) but the original house is only about 600 square feet. It was not built with a bathroom, so the bathroom is an add one which is pretty much falling down.
• In order to make this house livable, I will be either remodeling it or demo'ing it and starting from scratch!
• I picked out my architect - he's done a number of homes in this neighborhood. I'm very excited to see what he comes up with.
• But first things first, I need to figure out where to start... that should come once I hear back from the City Historical Commission about whether or not I need to save parts of her.
  

I will do my best to keep this updated with pictures and details. This is going to be one awesome journey!