Our home for the past thirty one years went on the market today. Here is the link to the listing for those who are interested. Kim did a wonderful job of staging the house for Susan Bovey, our real estate agent, to photograph.
Our California home goes on the market today. Joe and I
loved this house so much. When Joe purchased it in 1992, he did so because he
wanted a large lot with the home facing north. This meant he could have a large
back yard. He immediately added on to the house. Taking it from a two-bedroom one
bath home to a three-bedroom two bath home. The kitchen was tiny and at the
back of the house, so he decided to extend the house by adding a dining area,
the master bedroom and bath with a walk-in closet, laundry room with a pantry,
and a dining room. When the addition was finished the house went from eight
hundred square feet to 1400 square feet.
That dining room ended up being the place we did most of our
entertaining over the years. I hope all the fun conversations and happy moments
permeated the walls and will bring new owners a sense of warmth and positive
energy that we found in the house. The dining room was the place our children
did their homework. When we had our first home computer it was on a table at
one end of the dining room so that we could monitor the children’s usage. The
dining room was the most lived in room in our home.
Joe was the third owner of the home. We certainly left our
mark on it over the years. Tearing out carpet, refinishing the original oak
sub-floors. We waited to refinish the floors until our kids were grown. Megan
learned to rollerblade on those floors at the age of three!
One of our early additions to the house was to tear out the
original wall heater and build a bookshelf with storage and a seat. This opened
the living room up and allowed more sunshine into one of the bedrooms.
Over the years we kept up the maintenance on the house. When
something structural was needed we found a way to make it happen. We loved on
our home as if it were a member of the family. We did not buy the most
expensive and we did not buy the least expensive. We researched, we found ways
to save. Our home was just that, a member of our family.
Soon it will no longer be our house. It will belong to
someone else. I truly wish them a wonderful life in that sweet house.
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