run-on sentence: the home repairs version

[reallyginnyf]

Just finished a walkthrough of our house with a carpenter and of course everything in our house is non-standard because it's 71 years old and of course the side doors and the garage door and the cabinet drawers will have to be custom built but this guy also has twenty years experience building homes so he knows what he's talking about and I don't

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[reallyginnyf]

I imagine we'll stay. The carpenter kept touching woodwork and looking out windows and saying "this is such a beautiful old place." Plus it's in a historic neighborhood right in the middle of a very walkable downtown (our pharmacy, bank, post office and library are all within two blocks of our front door) and we get along well with all our neighbors. All the newer homes I *think* I want are in those cookie-cutter subdivisions and we'd never be happy in a place with rules and regulations and nosy people being up in our business. We dug up our front lawn last year and planted flowers and vegetables and no one said a thing. We're here to stay, we just have to prioritize all our upcoming expenses with college looming and needing to replace a car and some healthcare things for me.

[captivebird]

Sympathise with your situation as we too live in a period property (1930). Occasionally we daydream about going back to live in a new-build, but one look at the over-priced, cramped plots on the outskirts with lack of private mature garden and we retreat with relief back to our haven within easy walking distance of town centre amenities. Our house will never be in fully-modernised, perfect decorative order, but it has character. And because of the mature gardens all around, a surprising amount of wildlife. :-)

[reallyginnyf]

Sounds like we're in a similar situation, property-wise. And people tend to walk in our house and say, "it's so cute!" Maintaining "cute" is a lot easier than decorating and maintaining a showcase so we're sticking around for the long haul.

[adaveen]

I've seen pics of the outside. It is a cute place. I need to reno mine, so we can sell, but Denny just wants to burn the place down. I can't seem to get through to him that that isn't done
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[reallyginnyf]

Oh that's right, I remember posting pics after that one horrible middle-school student teased six-year-old Zack about how small his house was. Almost forgot about that. Family went bankrupt and they had to sell their big place so suck on that, horrible middle school student.