Here was our favorite--2800 sq feet, 4 bedrooms, plus a bonus room and a master retreat.
cute front, with a 3 car garage. However, this house is in serious need of some paint throughout and new flooring in a couple of the bedrooms. The house is painted with white flat paint, and this paint did not weather the last few years well.
Front bedroom overlooking porch, which we would use as a toyroom.
Cute kitchen, with granite countertops and lots of cabinets. No appliances present. Through the doorway is a dining room, and the front entryway.
Master bedroom has a balcony that overlooks the backyard.
master retreat.
One of the upstairs bedrooms with a walk-in closet.
upstairs stairway with built in desk. Also has a built in desk in the kitchen.
Backyard, while only containing dirt and weeds, is really big.
A view of the entryway with the toyroom off to the right..
Located in a cul-de-sac.
This house also had a nice under the stairs storage area.
Second house
Around 2600 sq feet, 3 bedrooms plus a den. Best feature--the pool and hottub outside.
Front den, with a weird built-in lighted shelf system.
The kitchen was rather unremarkable, except for the dishwasher was raised up. I thought that was pretty cool. But the appliances were all pretty old and slightly yellow.
My biggest complaint about the kitchen, is that it just didn't have enough cabinets. Especially upper cabinets.
Another weird feature--built in intercom system that looks like it was installed in the 80's. Comes complete with tape deck. Oddly,the house was built in 1995.
One of the bedrooms. Wallpaper border that would have to go.
Other bedroom with a cute window.
Walkin pantry. Sorry this is out of order, but I am not willing to mess around with it right now.
Nice 3 car garage with sealant on the floors.
I really liked this laundry room. Lots of space.
It has become apparent to me through this house hunting that I am attracted to nice yards. Especially when the yards have a pool and hottub. The master bedroom looks out on the pool and has its own exit to the patio.
I liked the little ledge just below the hottub, a nice place to sit.
I also liked this ledge by the stairs. Another plus--it has 2 built in places for umbrellas, and it is a large pool. While it is unfenced, it does have the holes built in to add a fence pretty easily and inexpensively.
This was the side yard. We would rip out the bushes and build a swingset.
The master closet was huge and had lots of built in shelves.
The master bath featured a jetted tub, some ugly and ill-applied wallpaper, and everyone's favorite in a bathroom--carpet. That was missing the carpet pad, except for a random square. The master bedroom also had a small patch missing the carpet pad.
Back to the kitchen...I really liked the Corian countertops with the smooth built in sink.
Not really digging the large amount of cracked tile.
Onto house number 3.
2700 sq feet, 4 bedrooms, den with a door, and a large master with bay window. The master is on the top floor, in the front of the house, and directly below it is the den.
Cute den, or playroom, as I like to call it, with feux wood floor.
Living room. Painted orange, and no central light or fan. Hmm. Does have a chandelier for a dining table, which I would not use this room for.
One side of kitchen, which overlooks a small family room. You can also see the stairs. Would need to buy a fridge.
Other side of kitchen with table area and door to laundry room and walk-in pantry.
laundry room, which includes the washer and dryer.
pantry
Harry Potter's room, or, the closet under the stairs.
mastser bedroom with bay.
pink bedroom, which Sareny already called.
Second kids room upstairs, probably Finley's.
Third kids bedroom, Isaac's.
Backyard has this cool built in bbq.
Backyard is huge. Unfortunately, it is a whole lot of nothing.
Even the side yard is huge.
3 car garage with reverse osmosis system.
View out the back door...literally. I forgot to take this picture until after we had locked the door down, so it is a little dirty looking.
Cute neighborhood park just a few houses down.
House number 4
This house was completely crazy. I just cannot describe quite how weird it was. And there is not a chance in heck we will be making an offer on this one, but I included it here so you can also bask in it's strangeness. It is over 2500 sq feet, but because of some interesting choices, only has 2 bedrooms. The outside was cute, and the windows had nice plantation shutters.
This room was nice too--a large den with french doors.
And then it gets a little freaky. Awesome maroon carpet in the living room.
Really strange metal doorway to rest of the house, which locks from the other side.
Empty room/storage closet thingy(?) with ripped up walls, and electronic stuff that looks like this room used to house a server or something.
And this backyard just needs more than one picture to fully appreciate.
Firepit surrounded by flagstone and possibly a raised brick seating area...okay. I can live with that. But what is that built up thing behind it?? We just could not figure it out. The best we could come up with is a fountain, but it is really deep--it goes all the way to the ground. Perhaps you are wondering if it is some kind of small, built in hottub. Nope. That is featured in the center of the yard.
Again, not too terrible. I could live with that. But then we come to this.
Very bizarre stone fountain thing. why?? Creating this overall effect.
You can also see that it has yet more stone where they built in a bbq. But they of course stripped the appliances right out of it. Anyway, I find this yard and house very unappealing.
And that is pretty much it from our recent house hunting outing.
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