So this house that I like is a real.....um...good deal/first house/fixer upper/solid foundation/good start? All those words that you would use to describe Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. But that came out all right in the end didn't it? All it needed was someone to believe in it.
Here's the good, bad and ugly of my little diamond in the rough:
Good-
sweet wood floors throughout
arches all over the place
fireplace
screen porch
a partial white picket fence (for real!)
3 bedrooms
1 1/2 bathrooms in good repair
backyard with fences
Bad-
chipping, wood siding
old windows
unknown roof/furnace ages
Ugly-
wood panelling basement
appliances in the kitchen
Creepy-
we found out it's an estate house....the one thing Jon was not keen on was the notion of possible hauntings
There it is. Jon gets to see it for the first time today. I'm anxious to hear his thoughts. By the way this house is literally two houses away from the picture-perfect house that ruined me last week.
In anticipation of having at least ONE project in this maybe-house of ours I am currently loving this website:
http://www.younghouselove.com/ , now that is one crafty couple after my own heart.
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I'm sure you are getting lots of advice (so take this with the grain of salt), but it can be easy to tell how old the shingles are. If the shingles are 'peeling up' or 'folding' that probably means new ones will be needed in 5 years (at the most). I worked construction and mainly shingling for two summers so if Jon wants to make roofing a project, count me in.
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