Taste for $200 Alex?
We spent the day wandering around areas to look at model houses and scope out any rentals advertised. I have to say that I am amazed at the number of buildings without any taste imagination or originality. We toured 6 model homes. Out of the 6, only 2 were even marginally okay. It seems that with many builders, they either give you too much house or not enough. Steve and I don’t want more space than we will live in – why clean it or pay for it? But we do want enough space to meet our needs. Many builders don’t build dining rooms – just tiny little breakfast nooks. And can you really call an 18 inch deep slab of concrete a front porch just because it is on the front of the house? Shouldn’t a chair fit on it to advertise it as a porch? Or they go the other way and provide the breakfast nook and a big dining room and 4 bedrooms and a bonus room and an office. I don’t need or want all of that space. Doesn’t anyone understand the happy medium?
Our front runner is still the first model we saw a couple of weeks ago. But when the time comes, we will still investigate non-development homes because we would really like a bit of yard and these builders are squeezing as many houses as possible on the land they own to maximize their profit (who can blame them?). (That and my Libertarian husband believes home owner associations are the work of the devil.)
Sabrina’s opinion of the day:
Haaaaa ha ha!! Best wishes on finding the perfect castle!!
You will find a place to call home. Cute picture of Sabrina, so angelic when they are sleeping, so are pets and men. She is a real cutie!
(now news to you given that every STILL photo I captured when she was younger was in the seat but) I saw the pic and had a moment of AHHH EMMA — wait THATS NOT EMMA!!
I read your post and imagined someone walking through our old place and thinking things about it 🙂
got some REALLY helpful comments from a potential buyer last week (not) that they really DID NOT LIKE our tile.
as if we’d sweep in, sandblast that crap, call them, relay a different color/texture/something patterned throughout the entire house on the off chance they’d buy.
(eyeroll)
C.
Good luck househunting. Glad it’s you, and not me:>)
I am with Sabrina!!
okay – i am with sabrina on looking at homes. (smile)
I am with your husband regarding home owner associations. I would never ever live somewhere that had one.
Love the picture! I lost your site for quite a long time. I can’t believe how much Sabrina has grown. She is beautiful!
breakfast nook and a big dining room and 4 bedrooms and a bonus room and an office
Sold. I’m in a 900 square foot 2 br apartment. Before that I lived in a 12×26 studio.
I CRAVE space. Even if I have to dust it.
We had the same problems, the houses just didn’t seem to make sense to me, just weird layouts or whatever; must be alot of architects on crack or home make-overs gone bad. We found one that we love and it has a good layout we just had to do cosmetic changes to it. Hope you get a perfect one for you guys.
Good luck with the house hunting:)
I agree with Sabrina…. looks like she had the right idea:)
The one thing I HAD to have that now I’ve turned into nothing more than a playroom because it sat totally empty for 6 years?? A formal living room.
I do like having a separate formal dining room for those rare nice dinners with company. But, I could not live without my eat-in kitchen as well.
Ugh, I don’t envy you – we had to look at like 100 houses before we found this one, and dont’ tell anyone, but it’s starting to be too small. Good luck!
welcome to the south and current home building trends! Growing up in NE Ohio and living in The ‘Burgh for 5 years…NOTHING like the homes that are in the south!