Our New Old Home

Kevin got the bug to look for a house to buy so we looked. We found one and we made an offer. They accepted the offer and fortunately they are giving us a land contract, so that means we don't have to worry about funds because no one would give a student without any income a loan. Go figure. They want to move quickly so we will actually be moving again in a week or two. I'm glad I didn't unload all those food boxes in the garage. We'll just take them to the new house. It will be a bit of a hassle to pack everything else back up but oh well. It's an older home but has lots of character, lots of room and seems to be in good shape so we are very excited.

Here's a picture of the front of the house. It needs to be cleaned in the spring, and we need to put in the front main steps.

Kevin made up these floor plans in PowerPoint. He's really good at that stuff. It is to scale, furniture and all. The front porch is bigger than shown in the slide because the slide wasn't big enough. I have labeled lots of things to help you know what is what. Some of the furniture we don't have yet but we will eventually. The house will probably feel very empty until Kevin goes back to Massachusetts to get the rest of our stuff but oh well.


The Arctic Entry has pegs on the wall ready for little kids coats and stuff. The Family Room has built in shelves on the east wall. We will add our book shelves on the west wall later. My room has a built in desk unit with shelves and drawers. In the kitchen, there is a bench that goes around the space in the empty southwest corner. We may take that out, or at least most of it.

Here's the second floor. The only issue is the leaking toilet so we'll have to take care of that, and we may redo the shower stall but we shall see.

The kids room has a built in desk in the southeast corner and a walk through closet in the northwest corner. Yes, there is an upright piano in the very west room but it needs to be tuned and probably fixed if it is going to work correctly.

Looking from the kitchen through the dinning room and living room. The arctic entry is the doorway on the left and the family room doorway is on the right.


Looking from the family room through the living room and dining room. The family room has a huge, beautiful pocket door. The closed white door at the other end is the bathroom.


One view of the kitchen. The stove will go in the spot on the left side of the picture.


Other view of the kitchen, coming from the dining room.

Small view of the play room/movie spot, and down the hallway past the bathroom and into the piano room. We didn't notice the low ceilings until we went back through the pictures. Then I remembered it feeling different when we were walking through it. I'm interested to know why they dropped the ceiling that low.

I could attach a zillion other pictures but it's really hard to get a good look at the rooms. I will probably repaint all of them anyway. I hope you enjoyed the look into our future home. We are excited, and we will enjoy all the projects we want to do (painting, floors, cabinets, etc.) as time passes and we take our time.