This house, along with the one on Malta, were my favorites. The garage was a little rough, and “lived in” as it were, but not bad. The breezeway was decent. The downstairs was clearly lived in – that’s where the couch and TV were. On the main floor, the kitchen wasn’t bad; maybe a bit small, but not unworkable. I loved the formal dining room! It wasn’t terribly large, but just large enough to fit a decently sized table into it. The living room was nice, but felt a bit naked. Obviously it’s not used as it had a TV, but nowhere to sit. The fireplace in the living room was nice, too. The den on the first floor wasn’t bad – it had some knotty pine built-ins. Yay for built-ins, but boo for knotty pine. Not a fan. The bathroom on the first floor was very blue, but not too bad. I liked the stairwell up to the second floor, but I’m a bit of a fan of stairwells and 2 story houses. The upstairs bedrooms weren’t bad, but showed their age; neither one had overhead lights, and the closets were atrocious. The lights could be fixed, but you can’t really make more closet space without taking it from something else. The upstairs bathroom, however, upset me. It ADVERTISED itself as a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house, with a FULL bath on the first and second floor. LIES! The upstairs bathroom wasn’t even a 3/4 bathroom – it was a half bath. Toilet, sink, cupboard. No shower, no tub. That violates one of my rules about bathrooms – I don’t care if the house is 1 or 2 story, but I demand a full bathroom on the same level as my bedroom. The den downstairs wasn’t really large enough to be turned into a master bedroom, so that was out of the question. The backyard and patio are where this house really shone. On the back of the breezeway, there was a little patio with a grill. Through an archway, and along a little path behind the garage, you get to the main part of the backyard. It wasn’t too big or too small, it had trees, and flowers, and horseshoe pits….it was a nice backyard. I liked it. But the nice backyard can’t make up for the shortcomings elsewhere. If we could have put the house from Malta on this lot, with this location and backyard, I think we might have had a winner.
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#1 by Mors on April 11, 2007 - 11:49 am
While I did like the back yard of this house, the rest of it didn’t feel really homelike. The garage and unfinsihed part of the basement were really junky, and made me feel like the current owner hasn’t really taken care of the place. It needed a lot of fixing up in places, and while it looked like it was stuff I could probably do, there was a lot of it. I was less enthused about this house than Carrie and I agree that it’s not really for us. So far, all the houses in this price-range have looked decent in the listing but been terribly disappointing in one way or another.