congratulations zara bode and stefan amidon, on the acceptance of your intial offer on what is, without a doubt, the best house on the market in turners falls.*
*for superstition's sake, i knocked on all the pieces of wood in my living room before i posted this.
i love this house. i can't stand how much i love this house. when zara and stefan surprised matthew and i two weeks ago, in the middle of a crazy wednesday evening of running errands, visiting my folks and trying to get our weekly budget done before midnight, with a visit right after they had seen this house i could only hope we'd see this day. i didn't think it would come this quickly though.
when i first saw the listing for this house, i was iffy. the exterior isn't what i had in mind for matthew and i at all. initially i thought it was a little too sweet, a little too cottage-y. no sir. it has just the right amount of quirkiness to make me love it.
these pictures really don't do it justice.
those excellent doors lead you into the next photo, which is a phenomenal sunroom. SO. MUCH. LIGHT. i hear that z & s want to use this as an office/reading room. i couldn't agree with the sentiment more.
one of the only awkward moments is this weird cabinet next to the fireplace. zara and i had an EXTENSIVE conversation about this space, revolving around changing out the firebox and destroying those sconces. there's a weekend worthy project here with a big pay-off. exactly the sort of thing i want to be able to tackle in a house. that cabinet should probably go too. it would be worth it to pony up the cash and have a real craftsman come in and build matching bookshelves on either side of the mantle.
the rest of the photos in the listing don't convey the perfection of this house for a small family. the bathroom upstairs has another week/weekend-ish project that involves ripping out a dated shower stall. but the rest of the bathroom is perfect! a linen closest, a huge window, tasteful clean tile and access to the pipes and whatnot through a semi-secret door that will give a child an afternoon of narnia inspired fun. the bedrooms aren't huge but there are three and the woodwork throughout looked flawless. (zara remember what i said about painting any of it.) there's a perfect pantry, a big deep sink, a water-closet right off the kitchen . . . i could really go on and on about this house.
full disclosure moment. having zara and stefan house hunting in the same pool of houses as matthew and i had the potential to be terrible. wouldn't it be awful to find a house that both of us fell in love with? what if we were blinded by real estate lust and couldn't overcome our need for sun rooms and water closests? thankfully, we're better than that. and matthew nixed my dreams of this house, because of its proximity to sheffield elementary school. so if its not right for us, i'm thrilled that it was right for z & s.
so congratulations on your first offer being accepted! here's to inspections, quick and painless, and an easy signing before christmas.
*for superstition's sake, i knocked on all the pieces of wood in my living room before i posted this.
i love this house. i can't stand how much i love this house. when zara and stefan surprised matthew and i two weeks ago, in the middle of a crazy wednesday evening of running errands, visiting my folks and trying to get our weekly budget done before midnight, with a visit right after they had seen this house i could only hope we'd see this day. i didn't think it would come this quickly though.
when i first saw the listing for this house, i was iffy. the exterior isn't what i had in mind for matthew and i at all. initially i thought it was a little too sweet, a little too cottage-y. no sir. it has just the right amount of quirkiness to make me love it.
these pictures really don't do it justice.
those excellent doors lead you into the next photo, which is a phenomenal sunroom. SO. MUCH. LIGHT. i hear that z & s want to use this as an office/reading room. i couldn't agree with the sentiment more.
one of the only awkward moments is this weird cabinet next to the fireplace. zara and i had an EXTENSIVE conversation about this space, revolving around changing out the firebox and destroying those sconces. there's a weekend worthy project here with a big pay-off. exactly the sort of thing i want to be able to tackle in a house. that cabinet should probably go too. it would be worth it to pony up the cash and have a real craftsman come in and build matching bookshelves on either side of the mantle. the rest of the photos in the listing don't convey the perfection of this house for a small family. the bathroom upstairs has another week/weekend-ish project that involves ripping out a dated shower stall. but the rest of the bathroom is perfect! a linen closest, a huge window, tasteful clean tile and access to the pipes and whatnot through a semi-secret door that will give a child an afternoon of narnia inspired fun. the bedrooms aren't huge but there are three and the woodwork throughout looked flawless. (zara remember what i said about painting any of it.) there's a perfect pantry, a big deep sink, a water-closet right off the kitchen . . . i could really go on and on about this house.
full disclosure moment. having zara and stefan house hunting in the same pool of houses as matthew and i had the potential to be terrible. wouldn't it be awful to find a house that both of us fell in love with? what if we were blinded by real estate lust and couldn't overcome our need for sun rooms and water closests? thankfully, we're better than that. and matthew nixed my dreams of this house, because of its proximity to sheffield elementary school. so if its not right for us, i'm thrilled that it was right for z & s.
so congratulations on your first offer being accepted! here's to inspections, quick and painless, and an easy signing before christmas.
1. I love that you have a weekly budget. So do we and we feel like freaks.
ReplyDelete2. I love that Matthew nixed it because it is close to children.
3. I hope I hope they get it.
goody reid!
ReplyDelete1. you are absolutely a goody.
2. once we started doing a weekly budget we were amazed at how much more money we had. i'm a huge proponent of making this mandatory in high school so kids don't waste their early 20s throwing their money away.
3. matthew actually LIKES children, he's just afraid of living next to a school.
1. They don't call me that for nothing!
ReplyDelete2. I AGREE. We also found that we are much richer than we thought after making a weekly budget.
3. Well, he shouldn't.