I LOVE the house we bought. I drive up and still can't believe I get to live here. I looked back over my perfect house list to see what I ended up with in the new house. I did pretty well. No carpets, a fireplace, storage, a huge backyard, parking, GREAT neighborhood, trees and a huge well shaded front porch.
We were pretty thick into the house offers/looking business and decided to go out to eat one Friday night with a Bonefish gift card. We furthered our Friday night "shenanigans" by deciding to just drive over to the neighborhood we really liked and look for "For Sale" signs. We found several - even found new areas of the neighborhood we hadn't explored before. We came home and one of the houses was fresh on the market and had an open house on Sunday. We got to the open house the minute it started. I really liked the house and so did Matt. Even as other folks walked through I remember thinking that they needed to leave my house. :-) We put in an offer the next day. It was accepted and we set the closing date.
The seller was going out of the country in early May, so we were able to move our closing date up by 2 weeks. We closed on May 2nd and moved in that weekend since Andrea's wedding was coming up and May was a VERY busy month for us.
We have painted all the rooms our personal color choices, we have hung roman shades and replaced blinds, we have removed the one square of carpet and painted the floor, we have painted the door and the windows. I am IN LOVE with this cute little house. It's smaller than what we orignially thought we wanted, but there is room to expand and plenty of room for kiddos someday.
We met with an adoption agency last fall - they talked about the home-study that would be done before you could adopt. Matt decided that he wanted his home-study to be in an actual home he owned - not a rental. So we started our search. I am happy to say that whenever we have that home-study - our home will not disappoint. :-)
Come visit us in Tampa anytime!!
(these photos are old - I will do a before and after post on the house as soon as I get new photos taken!!)
