We went under contract on a house this morning!
Yay! I'm selfishly glad you'll be 5 minutes from us! I love the stained-glass windows and solarium. And is that a magnolia in the backyard?
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
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Steph L. - Jan 26, 2015 7:39:21 am PST #17055 of 30000
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Sparky1 - Jan 26, 2015 7:48:12 am PST #17056 of 30000
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Congratulations, flea & family!
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:50:54 am PST #17057 of 30000
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Yeah, it's a saucer magnolia. (I kind of don't like it. It is TOO BIG and makes the whole yard very shady. But we'll see.)
SailAweigh - Jan 26, 2015 7:50:59 am PST #17058 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
What a gorgeous house! I love the windows, and the solarium, and the living room, and everything. Bid~ma, flea.
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:52:03 am PST #17059 of 30000
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(Also, the agent kept talking about the magnolia, and I internally got all southern snobby and was like, "this may be called a magnolia by you Ohioans, but I have lived in a house in Georgia with a magnolia, and this is not that!")
Tom Scola - Jan 26, 2015 7:52:16 am PST #17060 of 30000
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Yeah, it's a saucer magnolia. (I kind of don't like it. It is TOO BIG and makes the whole yard very shady. But we'll see.)
Definitely wait until Spring is over before making a decision.
amyth - Jan 26, 2015 7:54:12 am PST #17061 of 30000
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Yay, flea!
flea - Jan 26, 2015 7:55:36 am PST #17062 of 30000
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Ooh, mr,. flea just messaged me that there's an architect/historic preservationist/carpenter who lives on the street who's a "bungalow fanatic" and did his officemate's kitchen. Eeeeeexcellent.
Connie Neil - Jan 26, 2015 7:57:08 am PST #17063 of 30000
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A big shady tree can make a huge difference in cooling bills over a summer. A new neighbor was convinced by an itinerant tree cutter that the two huge trees on the west side of their house were a threat, so she agreed to have 70% of her summer cooling system knocked down. She moved in in the spring. The formerly serene lawn was scorched by September.
JZ - Jan 26, 2015 8:02:33 am PST #17064 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Congratulations, flea! That house looks absolutely gorgeous.
You have a solarium! SO FREAKING COOL.
It looks a lot like my brother's bungalow in Portland, OR (including the dining room wallpaper, which I helped him strip down to the surprisingly lovely cream plaster walls on a visit up there long ago). He did a ton of the repair and restoration work himself and still has lots of bungalow-DIY-repair-tutorial websites bookmarked (learned how to disassemble, restring, and reassemble the window frames with the rope pulleys hidden inside, and they still work perfectly more than a decade after repair), so if you'd like any links he'd be happy to pass them along.