Under Contract

Those of you who actually read to the end of my last post may have noticed that I mentioned that the offer we put on a house has been accepted. Well, we now have a contract on the house and are working toward a January 22 closing date. Wahoo!! The house itself might not look very big, but we assure you that the mortgage is... It is a cute little house in an historic district (seriously, it's on the national historic registry for being a track house built in the '50s) in the perfect location for us. We are quite excited.

Here are some pics. Descriptions are above. For example, this pictures shows the exterior of the house featuring the for sale sign.

This is the view of the living and dining room and into the kitchen from the front door.


Here's a shot of the kitchen and dining areas. (The dining area is pretty small...like 2 feet.)

Here's the kitchen. It's all brand new...

Here is the bathroom that we will be sharing with our children. Nothing brings a family together like sharing a tiny bathroom.

This room will be the nursery as it is the smallest and quite fitting for the smallest member of the family.

This room is the master. You can't really tell it apart from the nursery in the picture, but it is quite a bit bigger. There's another bedroom upstairs as well, but apparently I forgot to capture it. That's okay, it would look pretty much exactly like the other two anyway.

The staircase downstairs is in the kitchen. Here's the view coming up the stairs.

There are two bedrooms in the basement, although the previous owner knocked out the wall between them. Putting the wall back up is already on our project list. We're going to use one as a storage room and one as a guest room (for anyone who wants to come visit!).

There is also a full bathroom in the basement. My favorite part about it is the shower that I can barely stand up in because the ceilings are low. It shouldn't be a problem as long as our kids aren't tall...

Most of the basement has normal ceilings. There's just one little corner that is really low. The bottom of that light comes down to my nose. Project #2 - take out that low fixture and put in a recessed light.

Here's the view of the staircase coming down into the basement.

There's a nice sized rec room downstairs. It's also a walkout basement, so it's nice and sunny down there.

We have a nice little back yard (featuring a ginormous shed). Justin is already planning to put a grill/smoker/woodfire oven in that corner.

Here's the other side of the yard. Notice the bike path 2 feed out the back yard. Prime location for a family that likes to bike!

I'll post more when we actually buy the house, paint it and move in. Here's to thirty years of house payments!!