It is not much to look at now, but it has great potential. This home is still in the area we live in, less than 1/2 mile from our current house. Our contractor is working hard and we plan to move in by mid-January.
We have been looking for a new home for several reasons. We love our current home, but we knew that when we added a child, we would no longer have a guest room. And since many of our family and friends live out of town, we wanted to have space in our home for guests. Also, we realized that we will be here for a while, God willing, and we wanted a house we could grow into.
While my "dream house" would probably be on a beach, this is as close as I am going to get for now. I love the idea of restoring something and making it beautiful again. I think of the first family that built this house over 100 years ago, who planned and built their dream house. Over the years, this house has been neglected and abused and I am excited to be a part of bringing it back to what it should be. We also want to do something tangibly to make our neighborhood and city better. I love the idea of being involved in designing the home to fit our family's needs and desires. Here are some before pictures:
2 comments:
Congrats on the new house, I LOVE it! This sort of project would be something Nick and myself would love to take on- enjoy!
As someone who lives in a 102 year old house (built after all of our houses fell down in the devastating SF 1906 earthquake)...enjoy the process of breathing new life into such a beautiful and "wise" house!
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