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?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.