Sunday Home Tour Adventures

We have been looking at house after house and getting pretty discouraged; today our tour of 5 homes left us anxious and frustrated.

The first home was a run-of-the mill cookie cutter development house that epitomizes everything we hate about American yuppy life.  It's jammed in next to the neighbors, offers wonderful views of roofs and power lines, and is so 'picket fence' that I started to think it might be the place to buy.

I can see why people move into homes like this: they are spacious, clean, and feel so rich.  It was a nice home, and an exceptional price (if it's not under contract in 5 days I'll be surprised), but not really our style.

I mean, I could see making it work. . .and feeling happy and cozy.   But I can also see feeling very . . . well, sheep like!  It's just so expected, so typical.

On the contrary, we did really like this room in the basement

But the backyard was just. . .not natural?  I don't know, this home was nice but I couldn't see us living in it.

Another home was an unfinished remodel with building materials included.

We thought it was worth checking out but it was another mess of a property.  The owners were in way over their head: they had put down hickory floors and never finished them, so they lay completely raw on the floor beat up and abused from months of construction traffic walking through.  The kitchen plans were laid out nicely, but the bones of the kitchen were still plywood.   The bedrooms were a mess, and 'unfinished' does not begin to describe the condition of several bathrooms, a sun room, and a greenhouse full of plants that seemed to get more attention from the homeowners than the house ever did.

Not to mention the bad juju - but I digress.

We visited another home that was pretty beat up and smelled really strongly of cat pee, and one other we couldn't gain access too because the previous showing agent had broken the key in the lock and not done anything about it.  That home looked pretty shabby as well.

Then came the home that made us say 'hmmmm. . .actually. . . .'

That said, this home ^ ^ ^ deserves a post of it's own.  We won't be purchasing it, but it *is* a promising and neat property: the update potential in it is interesting and worth a look.  So, onto the next post!