Our House

Here's the list of features in our newly acquired house as compared to this list I made of my ideal house:

• older than your grandparents, if your grandparents were born in 1920;
• detached (yes!);
• not too spacious rooms, but that only means less space to clean (compromise);
• 3 bedrooms (yes!);
• good-sized, fenced backyard sans the mature trees;
• smells nice (yes!);
• main floor is carpet-free;
• medium-sized galley-style kitchen;
• a bathroom on the same level with the master bedroom (yes!);
• a partly finished basement;
• relatively good privacy;
• both porch and deck for my plants (yes!);
• oil heating (compromise);
• newer electrical wiring (yes!);
• private driveway (yes!);
• seemingly nice neighbourhood.

We could've bought a bigger house with a beautiful view but the amount of work required to make the house up to code was daunting and would cost us an arm and a leg so we had to make a couple of compromises and get the best house we could get without going over-budget. I think we bought the house at just the right time because now I don't think we could buy a house as nice as what we just bought with the budget we had. Suddenly they all cost $20,000 more! So yeah, we're quite happy with our acquisition.

Now that we've bought a smallish house, I've become quite addicted to the Apartment Therapy weblog because it offers a lot of ideas for decorating your small space and space-saving tips. I've also picked up a lot of books on home decorating from our favourite bargain book stores and book sales. I really can't wait to start buying furniture and decorate the house! But sadly, I have to wait for a little less than 3 months for that. :( Oh well. Time will fly, I'm sure.