Monday, October 20, 2008

Beau found a house that was just listed over the weekend. We went to look at it yesterday afternoon and we’re meeting with our realtor to make an offer sometime today.

It’s a cute little colonial that is listed as a 6 bed/3 bath, but it’s really a 4 bed/4 bath with two rooms on the main floor that could be bedrooms. The 4 full baths are cool, although I’d really be happier with a half bath on the main floor. We talked about maybe reverting it back to a half bath at some point. The kitchen is quite large, but lacks cabinets/counters. However, there is great potential for a large island or peninsula and we think we’ll break into a side wall to make the back “bedroom” a connecting dining room. Or we’ll make that a study/den for Beau and break into the wall that separates the living room from the front “bedroom” to make that a larger space. There is a good sized laundry room on the main floor. No basement.

Upstairs are the 4 bedrooms and 3 full baths. The master has it’s own bathroom. Across the hall from that room is the room we’ll make into the nursery. Next to that room is a bedroom with bathroom that we’ll make into a guest room/Jen’s office and I’ll probably use that bathroom. Then across from the guest room is Jesse’s room. The bedrooms aren’t tiny, but they aren’t huge either. They’re workable.

What’s great is that it is pretty much move in ready - just needs some light cleaning and paint. We will need to buy a washer/dryer and maybe a new frig, but everything else looks great.

There’s a nice shed in the side/backyard that will be great for storage and maybe a work room for Beau. There’s not much backyard, instead it has two large side yards because it is a corner lot and the house is placed facing the corner rather than one side. It does have a front porch. There is plenty of room to add a garage if we want to at some point, but none of the other houses on the street have garages, so I’m not sure we would want to do that. Plus, we don’t plan to be in this house for more than 5 years anyway.

Beau took a good picture that I’ll post as soon as we download it from the camera.

[UPDATE 2:30pm]: Docs are all signed and getting sent to the seller by our realtor. Beau will email the house pic if Jesse goes down for an afternoon nap.