The End has Come

The end of our house hunting adventure has come - we found a house! As I mentioned in my last house-hunting post, we put an offer in on a house we found. This house is bank-owned, so the process was a little more time consuming than a regular home sale.

But, we persevered through a number of setbacks and glitches and learned last night that we got the house! We're excited! Here's the house:

The lot is 1/3 acre, so big enough to have a decent back yard (pictured below) and there's already a garden sectioned off in the side yard. 

You can see our agent and my husband in this shot.

This house has 7 bedrooms, but we will only be using 5 as bedrooms. 

One will become David's study and another will become my studio. 

The master bedroom is large:

The kitchen is small, but has room for expansion, which we're already talking about. I compromised on the kitchen since the rest of the house is so great. It's attached to a dining room, so we'll knock out a wall and build or buy a large island to expand the space.

The living room has a hardwood floor as well as a wood-burning fireplace:

My favorite room in the entire house is this massive sun room! (below) It covers one entire side of the house, is about 25' x 15' and, as you can see from this pic, has many windows. It overlooks the street on one side and the back yard on the other. For me, this makes the house. 

It is already designated as our family room.

So, the house hunt is over and we feel we found the perfect house for us! 

Thanks for coming along for the ride.

This will be our 4th move in a 3-year period of time......and should be our last for a very long time. We have never moved this much and it's exhausting. We are ready to stop moving.

~Tricia

House Hunting - House #2

Our house hunt officially began this past weekend with the touring of the first home on our list. We quickly realized how it would not work for us at all, so we are moving on to see a second home tomorrow night.

This second home is in a good location, just where we need to be, but has only four bedrooms. We need five. But, there is a full, finished basement and since we can't see all of it in the pictures online, we think it's worth taking a look at because it might have room to create a fifth bedroom. We love the lot - it's large - and it has a sunroom, one my favorite things to have!

Take a look at these pics for a close up view of some of this home's best features:

View from the street. It's on a hill.

Kitchen....fully updated:

Living room has a fireplace at the opposite end:

Basement family room:

Nice stairs!

Sun room off the back of the house:

The back yard and garage:

So, there you have it! I'll keep you posted on whether or not this one works for us. 

Stay tuned!

~Tricia