Sully, Jess? The one with the scruff? Not the British doctor (Cal), in other words?

Also, the wiki page is really helpful. I can't keep track otherwise. There's even a handy chart!

Yes, by "other" I meant not the British doctor. Thanks!

sarameg has given me house lust, and I am window shopping (because I have no downpayment.

I am seriously in love with the kitchen in this house. All I want in the world is an original kitchen.

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Also, as you can see, the price is reasonable and if I had any savings at all I would be checking out purchasing. It is in a semi-bad neighborhood, but to be honest, almost all neighborhoods here are semi-unsafe.

Sully is one of Henry's friends. (He kissed Nikki the barmaid before leaving the Cannery to try for the sailboat. )

If you use the br thing - I think you can keep spoiler font on all paragraphs - but if you use a hard return you lose spoiler font.

It's a really cute house! The woodwork!

I wonder if the cabinets are metal. If so, they look just like the ones in the house I grew up in. I will say, I would never have metal cabinets again, even if refinishing them was as easy as sending them to a car painting company.

It's interesting to me that new kitchen/bathroom are such a huge thing in selling homes. I kinda get the bathroom, especially when it comes to adding one (I will someday do that here, in the basement) but if the kitchen is functional, I don't get it. But then, I'm not a big cook or anything. I appreciate a well organized and laid out kitchen, but when I was looking, brand new kitchen was not a selling point with me. Every time I saw one, all I could think of was the $$$ it added to the asking price. Especially if I felt like it wasted space to include fancy appliances. Mine isn't new, but it isn't that old, either. Could definitely use space better, and someday I'll probably do something about it but a) workable for now and b) if I do it sooner, I won't feel like I'm throwing away money.

Found out colleague did indeed die. Surgical complications. Hadn't worked closely with him in many many years, but it is still shocking.

sara, I'm sorry to hear about your colleague. yikes!

I kinda get the bathroom, especially when it comes to adding one (I will someday do that here, in the basement) but if the kitchen is functional, I don't get it. But then, I'm not a big cook or anything. I appreciate a well organized and laid out kitchen, but when I was looking, brand new kitchen was not a selling point with me.

After helping to design one for myself and getting it brand new I can't imagine ponying up to pay for a new one that someone else made the decisions about!

Am still at work...close to being done though. sheesh. proposals.

The thing is, with houses in my price range, the remodel seems to entail replacing the cabinets with some "oak" cabinets, and nothing else. I would rather have vintage.

love the house.

I'm a sucker for a good kitchen, but as long as it has what it needs, I have cooked in some far from ideal conditions

That is shocking. What a way to find out about it.

I think that there are many, many craptastic kitchens that are poorly laid out, have neither enough storage space or counter space that it totally makes sense to me that good kitchens bring money.