We arrive at our new house about 330p. Not bad, it's sunny out and we have lots of great natural light. When we pull up top the house, we realize we have a circle driveway, and the best part of that is that it's concrete and goes around the back of the house, instead of the customary front circle drive. Oh, I love that already! What a huge perk that its concrete!
We pull around back, I open my email to get the lockbox code, and we enter the house. It's clean, no trash laying around. No squatters, no animals, no rodents, no sign of mice or roaches or anything! What a relief! Good deal. All the what if questions went flying out the window.
We walk around the house. The pictures we had previously seen couldn't tell you the layout of the house, and it's quite interesting. You can walk from room to room, in a circle jerk, and end up right back to where you started (all with the exception of one bedroom). Interesting. Unique. I like it's character.
There are original hardwood floors throughout the house, Amazing. I had no idea. What a great surprise. The cabinets in the kitchen are custom built, and built well. Reminds me very much of the custom cabinet work in my first house, when people took pride in craftsmanship. Not like the shit these days. The bedrooms all have unique color themes. One bedroom is painted like a football field, another with wide teal/purple stripes. The master is plain as is the other bedroom, with the exception of the camo ceiling fan. Lol.
There are two full baths, and OMG, they have probably not been remodeled since before I was born, or around that time! The hall bath is baby blue. Ok, not my choice on colors. but it isn't just paint. The entire bathroom including the shower, floor to ceiling walls and the ceiling itself are all done in 4x4 tiles. Eeww. No. The interesting and exceptional thing about this bathroom though is more custom cabinetry work. Like a space where maybe you throw you dirty clothes. Almost like a laundry shoot but on the same floor. Neat. The master bath, gold, and more gold. Gold tub surround, gold double vanity with globe like light fixtures hanging from a chain off the ceiling in each corner of the vanity. Classy. Not. But as someone I met said, "You know when the guy who redid the bathroom was done, he stood back, looked at it and thought, I cant wait for everyone to see this!". Well said. you know the guy was proud, and I am sure at the time, it was great. Just not anymore.
What else about this house? There are surprises around every corner, and they aren't bad surprises. We find out that we have natural gas! Wow. I would have never expected that in the boonies. I haven't had natural gas in 10, almost 11 years. Damn. That's such a bonus! We also have a gas fireplace in the living room. I love that! Funny side note about the natural gas; I had to go to the gas company, about 1 mile from our house, and fill out a paper application to have it turned on. OMG, I think we are moving to Mayberry!
We also find that we have an underground storm shelter on our property, just outside the back door. Awesome. And it's a great size too. Plenty of room for both of us, our dogs and neighbors too!
On our 10+ acres (still not exactly sure what the exact size of the property is as that info has also been conflicting), the grade of it goes way up just after the storm shelter. The elevation is not something that any of the pictures we previously viewed gave away. Ok, not the end of the world. We have a lot of space to explore.
We find an old chicken coop with the roof blown off, another building with a door and lock on it that we don't have a key to, a well house (what?!?), a workshop that's huge, and who knows what else yet. That's all we immediately see. There's lots of other land to explore still.
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