I'm Please To Report: We're No Longer On The Fence!

I'm glad to report that Wilson and I made the decision not to

built our next home ... but to stay in this development and

buy an existing home just a few hundred yards from our

rental.  We truly love this neighborhood and all the people.

Yesterday was the community picnic and met just about

everyone here ... we are very happy indeed! 

 The unfortunate thing or fortunate thing depending on who

you ask {us or the westies} is that the new house doesn't have

windows as low as the rental ... meaning they will not have

a birds eye view of the neighborhood as they do now ... unless

we built them a perch which isn't out of the question.

 Our New Home come June 17!

Even though this home looks pretty much like our rental

the interior is a different layout with upgraded cabinets, etc.

 We are debating about the front door.  I like the

glass and the light it allows into the hall.

The dining room

 We're not crazy that everything is painted the same

tan color and will make changes accordingly.

On the opposite side of the dining room is an office area

which we will set up pretty much like we have

in the rental ... same goes for the dining room.

From the front door a view down the hall.

To the right is a nice size powder room.

 The kitchen with upgraded appliances which we don't know

if they work.  The stove is gas which has been turned

off and we can't get the oven and microwave to work.

We'll call our local repair folks to check all these out once

we own the place.  Also we are going to see if we can 

lighten up the dark stained floors.  Even tho this may look

great in this photo ... the floors are not great.  There are scratches all

over and to be honest we are not dark floor type of people.

We like light floors and light walls.  I also want to take

out the existing counter tops and replace with granite.

 The kitchen is bigger than the one we have in the rental.

The doorway to the right goes into the master bedroom.

The master bathroom will be gutted and totally re-done.

We can slightly move the vanity top in the bathroom ...
which is not a good thing in our opinion.  Also no one likes
the tile color used around the tub {think dull hospital green}.

 In Bozman we faced due east getting the sunrises -

in this house we are due west so we'll have the sunsets.

There are 3 ponds and we face the center one.

We were told geese hang out here in the winter - we

can't wait and this was one of the major draws to this

home.  If we can't be waterfront then we'll be pond front!

 This room will get nice and toasty in the summer so I'm thinking

of a retractable awnings ... depending on cost.

 The breakfast area.  We want to add a built-in book case

along the wall with a small nook in the center.  Something to

hold the lap tops, nothing fancy.  The open door is to the

mud room/laundry room.  It has a coat closet right

behind the door and we're thinking of turning that into a pantry.

 This is one of 3 rooms on the second level.

 The paint color is driving us crazy!  Anyway, I'm

debating which room I want for my sewing space. Even tho

this room is on the smaller size I like the natural light.

 Can we say red sparkle tile!  

We learned yesterday that the former owners let

their teen girl pick the tile for this bathroom.  Now as

crazy as this sounds I like it and with a black shower

curtain I think it will work.

 The other possibility for my sewing space.  See how high

these windows are compared to our rental.  The problem

with this room is the lighting.  We've already contacted

a builder who suggested we could go thru the attic via a small

hallway onto a roof top sun deck.  Sounds nice but we

don't know the cost of such an ambitious project.  We did

notice one of our neighbors did just that but his master

bedroom is on the second level so that made sense.  The

only advantage would be if Wilson took this room he

could pop out on the sun deck and take pictures.

 Oh ... I forgot to mention we will be adding a screened in porch

with a connecting deck to a 3 season room so the idea of adding

a sun deck from this room isn't to far off ... but it depends on the

$'s for all these projects ... of course!

The house is missing a washer, dryer and refrigerator.

How strange is that?  Who knows if the stoves will

work or not as well as the gas fireplace.  

This is going to be a busy summer and

hopefully with all that we want to do in upgrading this

home and making it ours a late fall move-in

date seems possible.  The unfortunately thing is

 our lease isn't up at the rental until the end of February.

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Happy Memorial Day