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Friday, September 07, 2007
We're renting a house! A house! A super-cute adorable full-on vintage house, with three bedrooms and a little yard and it's right downtown and squeeeee!
Ahem. Yeah, I'm excited.
We're moving at the beginning of October. The owners are putting in new Pergo floors in the living room and kitchen, and new carpet in the bedrooms, and doing some other upgrades. We negotiated a lower rent by not making them paint it for us AND we can go ahead and paint it ourselves with whatever colors we like. Ike's room is going to be awesome.
Seriously, the place is adorable. It was built in the 20s and is a perfect little cottage. I don't think there's a plumb line in the place after 80 or so years of settling, and the room layout is a bit odd, but it's got a ton of character. It's exactly the kind of house I've always wanted. It's about a mile from where we are now, and we can walk to downtown and the farmers market.
Dennis will be able to have an actual office, which will really help with one of our big parental issues: how do you keep the baby out of the CDs when half a dozen more arrive every day and they're stacked everywhere? Answer: gate off half the office and have big bins for Just-In | Reviewed/Like | Reviewed/Crap | Coasters.
The new house has washer and dryer hookups, so our first adventure will be trying to score a used set. The hookups are on opposite walls, so no stackable system, but I'm sure I'll have no trouble finding something suitable on craigslist. We shall be free from the tyranny of quarters! It also does not have a built-in dishwasher, so I will be keeping an eye out for a portable one that we can hook up to the sink.
Oh, and there's a patio in the back, and a front lawn, so lots of play space. There is a garage and the closets are big, so there's tons of storage, although I intend to shed a lot of stuff when we move. I didn't have the energy to do a proper stuff-purge when we moved upstairs last summer, so it's overdue. Freecycle's gonna love me.
For added fun, Jon and Ryan are moving into their awesome new house (much closer to us than their old one was!) in a few weeks, so we're all going to be disoriented and have Google map printouts in our cars so we can find our way home.
ps - it has a big ol' clawfoot tub with NO SHOWER DOORS!
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