Thursday, December 10, 2009

More about the house

I may yet do the whole SketchUp thing like I did before the last move, but it's complicated this time because my Real Computer is running Linux and, as such, needs an intermediary program set up before I can install SketchUp.

In any case, the house is about 520 square feet, with no light shafts or hallways and not including the laundry room, whereas the apartments are 410, including light shafts, hallways and laundry room. The smaller of the two bedrooms in the new house is about the same size as the larger of the two where we are now.

So all our stuff will fit. And I like that the living room is contiguous with the kitchen, so whoever's cooking doesn't have to go off behind closed doors (or around corners or whatever) while they do it.

It is, as I said the other day, not very attractive, but the owner seemed to indicate that he would be painting it, and once we put our things in it and choose curtains and stuff, hopefully it'll be nice.

We went down today to transfer our existing application for a phone line (which we put in for last July, but there are no lines available in this neighborhood) over to the new place, and while we won't know till it happens, it sounds like that may work out okay. And when it does, we can have DSL instead of cable Internet, and thereby not have to pay for TV we're not watching. So that'll be nice.

Here's what it looks like right now. We believe that if the owner paints it, it'll be off-white as opposed to another coat of the oh-so-popular Industrial Hospital it's currently sporting.







6 comments:

Steve December 10, 2009 8:30 PM  

looks like a real great place.
many congrats (assuming teh bars aren't to keep me out!)

Heather December 10, 2009 10:24 PM  

Awesome! I love the promise of a new house...so much fun to bring your vision to life! :)

deedee December 11, 2009 1:21 AM  

Is it wet inside, it looks like there is water on the floor.

Jennifer December 11, 2009 6:47 AM  

That's the reflection of the floor tiles, which are shiny - same with the grid pattern on the exterior of the house :)

We're going to actually see it in daylight for the first time today; hoping for the best!

Gine December 11, 2009 10:05 AM  

Space, glorious space!

I like it.
G

OuyangDan December 11, 2009 11:53 PM  

I love the inside! That little bar-like counter is so cute. I love those for family dining instead of kitchen tables. I don't know why.

Congrats everyone!

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