So much for not looking at houses...

Jan 24, 2008 14:55

Ailith. Answer your damn phone ( Read more... )

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gwynubis January 24 2008, 20:40:50 UTC
Nice house! 5 acres? 2600+ SF. Dude!
That's a *lot* of windows, though.

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Re: If you buy it can I come live with you? katperegine January 25 2008, 14:23:09 UTC
No kidding. The almighty Historic Structures Architect at 'the museum' is dying to go look at it for us. He says it may be something that one of the interns can use for experience credit...Trained help :-)

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If you buy it can I come live with you? spoon_o_doom January 24 2008, 23:12:18 UTC
Very pretty house & setting. Gaylen thinks the window replacements aren't that big of a deal. He has been replacing the windows all by himself one at a time in our rickety old house. Scared me to death when he did the one upstairs.

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Re: If you buy it can I come live with you? katperegine January 25 2008, 14:40:01 UTC
God knows there's enough room.

Gaylen is handy. Gaylen can build things. Akira is an MBA for a reason. :-) I love my MBA boy, but he's not what you'd call especially handy.

OTH, maybe you kids could come out for a couple days, and we could get a crash course! I can do tile, paint, plaster and refinish wood. My carpentry skills aren't that great, though, and I'm really ignorant about cutting trim. It's the whole learning disability w/ spatial relationships thing. I just need to learn how, with someone who won't mind me being slow. I mean, I can do a dovetail join, and I can manage a butt joint, but I can't do inside or outside bevels.

Last night I realized I thinking about finding appropriate tile to lay in the big downstairs bath. I think I'm getting into the whole idea now.

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hroar January 25 2008, 00:17:04 UTC
Scary? Like in the Addams Family mansion?

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katperegine January 25 2008, 14:48:55 UTC
Kinda ( ... )

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hroar January 25 2008, 18:25:57 UTC
WOW! this DOES sound like th eAddams family mansion! I was just kidding..but woooo!!!
Still, it could be good projects, an dvery invovling, an dcrative.
Tha tshower business sound sjust stupifying! WOW!
Amazing , all around! Do you think you wil buy it. to remale it?

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katperegine January 25 2008, 20:20:48 UTC
Well, we're leaning that way...

Hoping to have pictures soon.

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mwisebaker January 25 2008, 02:28:08 UTC
Nononono, the biggest minus is this is nowhere near me and Trisha!

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imiliarinaldi January 25 2008, 13:39:45 UTC
QFT! *cries* ;-)

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katperegine January 25 2008, 14:21:23 UTC
Dude. It is really cool. Like storybook house cool. There's major things to fix, but they are doable.

I really think this is The One. It's the only one we've seen that I thought, while walking in the door, "Oh. I could live here."

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imiliarinaldi January 25 2008, 22:55:41 UTC
*smiles* Seriously, we're VERY happy for you guys - go for it! And CALL ME when you start paintin' n' shit...we'll get that all whipped out in no time! :-D

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boffermom January 25 2008, 13:49:33 UTC
So cute! Scary?

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katperegine January 25 2008, 14:50:34 UTC
Very so. I listed it stuff up by Hroar's comment.

But even with all the scary, I like it. And Mike loves it. And, you know, reducing his commute by over half to some of our offices (our family business is a tax service) and by 3/4 to others...that's nothing to take lightly.

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