3516 N Olive

Update: The sellers @ 280 Goshen countered our ridiculously awesome offer, so we pulled our contract. As to be expected, they changed their minds and accepted our initial offer, but we had already moved on. You know, there is some satisfaction in knowing that we could've had that house. No harm, no foul, but bwahahahahaha!

After agreeing that we wanted to move on, we drove around Park Hill to collect more addresses and numbers. We were about to give up when we ran across this gem (You'll have to forgive the quality of these photos, we don't have a scanner. These are pictures offa a flyer!):

First off, RED DOOR! The bushes & landscaping need to be scaled back so you can see the aluminum awnings, which hang over most of the windows. Those will be lovely on a rainy day. I'm not too concerned about the little porch, because there is an A+ deck in the fenced-in backyard. A backyard that has a mature pecan tree which provides the shade on the deck. From the street, it's not the most dazzling place, but it conforms to our style. The goods are inside & in the back!

There are wooden floors throughout w/ tile in the (tiny) kitchen. I think it's pretty wild that we ended up falling for a house with a small kitchen, but we are confident that we can make it work. This house is smaller than the one we currently reside in, but we gain storage & space through a detached garage that is about half the size of the house & houses a wood-burning stove! Seemingly, all of the majors (electricity, plumbing, AC/heat, roof) are in good shape, so our concerns are all cosmetic. They are letting us keep the washer/dryer combo & refrigerator, which is fantastic in that that's one less thing for us to worry about for now. I will express some disappointment in having an electric stove, but I'll get over it. If there are hook ups for gas, maybe I'll get lucky? I am stoked that there is a dining room! This is coming from someone who has been eating off of t.v. dinner trays for 8 years. There is a weird nook in the dining room that the seller didn't know what to do with, but I think we can easily correct that. I've read enough mags & design blogs (for years) to not be turned off by weird nooks.

There are only two bedrooms that are modest in size, but not problematic. There's one on the front end (guest room/temporary music room) & the back. They remodeled the bathroom. Now we've seen some really awful remodeling jobs, but the seller actually did a good job on this one. I was blown away by that, actually. There is a pedestal sink, which is a personal preference. Too, there's a linen closet, something our bathrooms here have lacked.

This house is $10,000 cheaper.

If I seem foolishly, emotionally invested and really sure of myself, well, it's because I just learned the seller accepted our (badass) offer! We just have another little hurdle & then we are in! Somebody pinch me!