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adventures in househunting, part 2, I guess?
so it turns out that the house we were looking at today was one that I used to walk past every day on my way home from work, back when I lived with my ex - it's around the corner from the place we rented together, and, well. yeah.
I was like, "er" because of that, and then...
The interior of this one was a lot nicer than the last house, but, and I cannot stress this enough:
The layout was fucking weird.
Let me do what I can to describe it.
Opening the front door put you smack in the middle of the kitchen. This is the door that certain friends of mine would refer to as the "company door", e.g. where the doorbell is. When I say "the middle", I mean, "the kitchen counter is broken up to allow the door to open", almost as though they had completely remodeled the house at some point in the past and had rearranged everything to put the kitchen there.
The way it was situated on the lot was a bit strange, but in essence it was shaped like an L, with the bottom part being where you walked in (the middle of the lower stroke on the L was where the front door was), and then the stem is where all of the bedrooms were.
Four bedrooms, all in a line, with a hallway so narrow that two people could not walk down it. I don't mean standard hall size where, you know, you might have to turn slightly to maneuver, I mean, "when someone else who was at the open house wanted to look down the hall he had to flatten against the wall, as did Max and I, to let him pass".
Each of the bedrooms connected to a bathroom. Not exactly in Jack and Jill style, but "this bedroom has a strange little hallway nook that connects to the bathroom, and the bathroom is also connected to the hallway".
So it was literally: bedroom, half bathroom, bedroom, full bathroom, bedroom, bathroom, bedroom. The middle bedroom/bathroom/bedroom combo did have a Jack and Jill setup, while the last one was almost an en suite (master bed) except the bathroom also opened into the hallway.
The first bedroom had a built-in dresser that had clearly been built as part of the house and took up a good third of the room - it was this enormous dresser/vanity combo with space for a mirror and it was hideous.
The middle two bedrooms had a closet where whomever had owned the house previously had DIYed knocking out the back of the closet and then installing a plywood shelf across the knocked-out space. Like. What?
At the end of this long and skinny hallway was this enormous door that led not onto the back patio but to the chicken coop.
The yard itself was actually really nice though in desperate need of someone to come in and do landscaping - there was ivy and blackberry taking over everything.
We were like, "erm", and then we noticed that the listing included an unfinished basement with sump pump. I peered down the basement stairs, realized it smelled like wet earth/mold, went, "haha, no" and dipped the fuck out, because nope. I don't want to deal with a sump pit. I don't want an unfinished murder basement. Just. No. Thanks. No.
On the way back to the car Max was like, "I noticed that this was really near your ex's place and you probably weren't going to be comfortable living here", and I laughed and went, "yeah, nah."
But seriously: what a weird house.
Grabbed lunch after that (just drive-thru, nothing fancy), and on the way back to the house noticed that there was a for-sale sign up that we hadn't seen that morning. Turned down the road to the neighborhood to see where it was, and it's actually in a neighborhood that I looked at back in 2017 when I was trying to find a place to rent - a nice little house near one of the city parks. Good location, from the outside at least it was pretty clear that the roof and stuff had been replaced within the last couple of years, and the yard looks nice. Max is going to call on it.
Apart from that, today was running Space Heist this morning (went well), and then this afternoon just zoning out and listening to podcasts while doing puzzles. About to stand up and make mushroom empanadas, not much else goin' on. Nice quiet evening. Whew.
Originally posted on Dreamwidth at https://hafnia.dreamwidth.org/1438640.html, comment here or there, you'll more likely get a reply there.
so it turns out that the house we were looking at today was one that I used to walk past every day on my way home from work, back when I lived with my ex - it's around the corner from the place we rented together, and, well. yeah.
I was like, "er" because of that, and then...
The interior of this one was a lot nicer than the last house, but, and I cannot stress this enough:
The layout was fucking weird.
Let me do what I can to describe it.
Opening the front door put you smack in the middle of the kitchen. This is the door that certain friends of mine would refer to as the "company door", e.g. where the doorbell is. When I say "the middle", I mean, "the kitchen counter is broken up to allow the door to open", almost as though they had completely remodeled the house at some point in the past and had rearranged everything to put the kitchen there.
The way it was situated on the lot was a bit strange, but in essence it was shaped like an L, with the bottom part being where you walked in (the middle of the lower stroke on the L was where the front door was), and then the stem is where all of the bedrooms were.
Four bedrooms, all in a line, with a hallway so narrow that two people could not walk down it. I don't mean standard hall size where, you know, you might have to turn slightly to maneuver, I mean, "when someone else who was at the open house wanted to look down the hall he had to flatten against the wall, as did Max and I, to let him pass".
Each of the bedrooms connected to a bathroom. Not exactly in Jack and Jill style, but "this bedroom has a strange little hallway nook that connects to the bathroom, and the bathroom is also connected to the hallway".
So it was literally: bedroom, half bathroom, bedroom, full bathroom, bedroom, bathroom, bedroom. The middle bedroom/bathroom/bedroom combo did have a Jack and Jill setup, while the last one was almost an en suite (master bed) except the bathroom also opened into the hallway.
The first bedroom had a built-in dresser that had clearly been built as part of the house and took up a good third of the room - it was this enormous dresser/vanity combo with space for a mirror and it was hideous.
The middle two bedrooms had a closet where whomever had owned the house previously had DIYed knocking out the back of the closet and then installing a plywood shelf across the knocked-out space. Like. What?
At the end of this long and skinny hallway was this enormous door that led not onto the back patio but to the chicken coop.
The yard itself was actually really nice though in desperate need of someone to come in and do landscaping - there was ivy and blackberry taking over everything.
We were like, "erm", and then we noticed that the listing included an unfinished basement with sump pump. I peered down the basement stairs, realized it smelled like wet earth/mold, went, "haha, no" and dipped the fuck out, because nope. I don't want to deal with a sump pit. I don't want an unfinished murder basement. Just. No. Thanks. No.
On the way back to the car Max was like, "I noticed that this was really near your ex's place and you probably weren't going to be comfortable living here", and I laughed and went, "yeah, nah."
But seriously: what a weird house.
Grabbed lunch after that (just drive-thru, nothing fancy), and on the way back to the house noticed that there was a for-sale sign up that we hadn't seen that morning. Turned down the road to the neighborhood to see where it was, and it's actually in a neighborhood that I looked at back in 2017 when I was trying to find a place to rent - a nice little house near one of the city parks. Good location, from the outside at least it was pretty clear that the roof and stuff had been replaced within the last couple of years, and the yard looks nice. Max is going to call on it.
Apart from that, today was running Space Heist this morning (went well), and then this afternoon just zoning out and listening to podcasts while doing puzzles. About to stand up and make mushroom empanadas, not much else goin' on. Nice quiet evening. Whew.
Originally posted on Dreamwidth at https://hafnia.dreamwidth.org/1438640.html, comment here or there, you'll more likely get a reply there.