House excitement

I start my blogging with my excited rambling about a magical little house dp and I have seen for sale. I like the house, the property, the street, the area AND the price is reasonable (I think :-S - I sort of get boggled by anything over 2000 dollars).

This house, in a suburb nearby, has a delightful art studio in the very green backyard including a vegie patches, flower beds, citrus and other established trees and a fishpond. Under the house is a spacious garage and workshop (good for dp to make some custom built furniture) and a laundry and storage area (I think the storage area used to be servants quarters but im not sure).

Up the stairs on to the cement landing in pretty good nick, ready for a power blast with a pressure cleaner. The front windows have some cute brown faux shutters [I would like to paint red or blue :-)] The front door has some amber glass panels that I would like to replace with some stained glass in a more attractive colour. I only want to paint or replace these things because they aren't my taste in colour, they are actually in very good nick, which is surprising since i think the house is old.

Now inside: polished wooden floors, two bedrooms and a nursery (perfect - for ds), an old oven (very cute but may be removed eventually to make more room) in the kitchen- needs new cupboards, shelves and benches but the floor is fine. Even though it was a damp day there was no signs of damp in the house not even a musty smell :-). The ceiling in the main bedroom and the wall could use paint but its not urgent.

The thing I see as the must urgent to do is to replace some of the windows because there is one that is smashed out and some of the others don't open because there old and stiff. These ones don't have fly-screens which would have to be looked into. so there is a cost that we would have to put into the house close to soon after buying but I see it as a good investment

I'm so pleased to have seen a little gem with so much character on the market without having a berko price on it, and is not falling apart or smelly.

Another thing is the real estate agent appeared to HAVE a soul, yes, unbelievable but true.  makes me pleased to have him involved

this is all on the hopeful dreams list atm.
fingers crossed