What do you do a few days after Christmas when you have realized that your house is at max capacity and not one more thing is going to fit with an explosion occurring? Well of course you put an offer in on another house. Yep, after years of talking about it we have finally put our house on the market in hopes of buying a house that will hold of our "stuff." We have also gone out on a limb and put an offer in on a short sale that needs a whole lot of work.
These are some of the pictures we took while touring the house for the third time. Somehow I didn't take an exterior picture, but picture a two story red brick house and a whole lot of really bad design choices. The house was built in 1996 and they managed to put every bad 1980s upgrade that you can imagine. Lots of marble, dark colors, shiny brass, red formic counter tops, wallpaper, mauve carpet, bright colors and the list goes on.
Now picture the house we are trying to make: dark wood floors, new kitchen layout with white cabinets, granite counters, all new paint, light fixtures, etc. The house has such great potential and we hope the short sale game will be kind to us considering the house has been empty and on the market for almost two years. The house is in my parents neighborhood, on the 7th fairway, large backyard for the girls, curved staircase, pergola covered in some kind of vining, great curb appeal and it's 3,200 square foot of living is one of the smallest houses on the street.
Everyone wish us luck as we will be spending our time in between houses at my parents house. Maybe you should really be wishing my folks the luck because now we are all living back at home, all we are missing is another dog to join the party.
