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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Thursday House & Home 05
Sometimes you can't take your own photos. Sometimes it's an open-house, and there are bodies all over the place making it impossible anyway. Thankfully most homes are doing their own photos and websites now!
I've driven by "the house with the purple wall" more times than I can count, and I always wondered and dreamed about what this $1.7 million house might look like inside. 
The details did not disappoint. Open, airy, cheery and bright. Completely renovated by the architect-owner and his wife. 10 years ago, the house was a COLONIAL, if that gives you an idea of the scope of the renovation! 
Red wooden door. Want!
Room to the LEFT of the front door... (but the door is actually down on the right in front of the stair railing). And the next photo is behind me....
If you were to go all the way to the end of the room and step down. Very long house. 
Back to center... the stairs. 
RIGHT into the roomy kitchen. Behind the camera perspective is the long dining table area. 
A den/entertaining area in the back of the house. Even tho these are photos taken with a misleading fish-eye lens, this house is VERY roomy. Over 4000 square feet. Pool. FOUR-car garage. 
The Master.... beyond the bed is NOT a doorway. Nope. That's to the left. What you are seeing is a TUB that is in a "pass-thru" area between the bed and bathroom. Wow.
Pool with a very private yard.And now two photos that I actually took:
Strike 1: $1.7 million! So far out of our range it might as well be on Jupiter. I read that this house was bought 10 years ago for $600k. Oy.Strike 2: Spanish and on two levels. I REALLY don't want a house on two levels. And REALLY don't want Spanish. I'm over it. BUT, this is the sort of Spanish that's high on style and class and would never get old. Beautiful.
Strike 3: Room arrangement. The rooms are kinda broken up and off in odd directions from each other. The house sprawls in every direction. There's no real flow. I want simplicity and flow. It's weird to see a BIG house that has nice size rooms... but is still choppy. And, as mentioned before, I have a slight paranoia about not being able to know what's going on in other parts of the house ("Did you hear a noise in the West Wing?").
But it was a beautiful home that I'd always wanted to see. Which is why I bothered to look at a home so far outside our range and preferences. Wow. :) But seriously... not even for $700k. It would be a bad fit for us.
~Shephard :)
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