Our First House!

We’re SO excited! Remember the last house I posted about, we just went under contract! As long as the inspection and everything go well, we're good to go! The inspection should happen next week so I'll have more updates then :-) We were starting to think we were going to have to do a month to month lease at our apartment. I’m SO glad we don’t have to because the monthly rent is CRAZY expensive.

So, since it’s official I’ll tell you a little about our house. It’s a 3 bedroom inside townhome. There are 3 levels and a garage with a long driveway (SCORE...SO glad we won’t have to scrape all the ice & snow off the car next Winter!) All the carpet is new...this is good and bad. It’s good because it’s new...of course. It’s bad because I wouldn’t have picked carpet, but I can’t justify ripping up perfectly good carpet to replace it with wood. The same goes for the kitchen floor...it’s linoleum. I would have picked wood or tile...but I hate to rip up a brand new floor. We may end up replacing the kitchen floor within a year or so, but the carpet will stay until it is worn or we’re ready to sell.

There is a little bit of a yard but it’s not fenced in yet. We’ll probably get around to doing that next summer. We’ll also need to build a deck off the dining room (on the 2nd level). Putting up a fence & deck is very expensive up here. On top of materials & labor you have to pay for permits & get it approved by the HOA. I think it’s going to be a pain. I’m used to my dad just throwing up a new deck or something whenever he wants. I guess that’s one of the advantages of living in the country. For now, there’s a patio off the den on the first level. That will be just fine for us. We have a little bit of space for a small garden so I’m really excited about that!

There really aren’t many changes we’ll make right away. We have to get a washer & dryer. I think we’ll probably wait a few months to get our new appliances. I want to wait until we save enough money to get all of them at one time. I think having half new stainless/half old white appliances will drive me insane. We’ve had old crappy appliances in our apartment, I can wait a few months to get the ones I want :-). That will also give us plenty of time to do some research to find the best appliances for us.

I’ll be sure to take my camera when we have our inspection. I’ll post more pictures then :-)Here are a few from the main floor.

 This is the view of the living room from the stairs

 This is the dining area...we might just use this as an extended portion of the living room since there's another dining area off the kitchen.

The dining area from another angle. This is facing the kitchen. I love how open it is. I do not love that fan. It has to go ASAP.

Our settlement date is May 20. I can’t wait but I know time is going to fly by. We've been working so hard to make this happen...now it's finally becoming a reality! This is going to be a really busy month but I’m really looking forward to this new adventure!