Peeks at our New House

Time for some sneak peeks at what is going to be our dream home. Our keeper. No more moving. Those of you that know me well are chuckling quietly, thinking to yourself "No way that girl is going to stay put." My husband thinks the exact same thing. But I am really feeling like this is our keeper.

This house caught our eye for a few reasons. First of all I love this style of house, the post war cream brick houses. They have high ceilings but not 10 foot like the home we are currently in so you still get the feeling of space, but without the insane heating bill. They are solidly built, have hardwood floors (often under layers of carpet, lino and goodness knows what else!) and double hung timber windows.

Secondly, the block this house is sitting on is huge. Over 1300 metres, that's 1/3 of an acre in the old measurements.

Thirdly the location was right. Within walking distance of the shops, in an area we love and the kid's school is across the road. I won't even have to get out of my PJs to get the kids to school and I will never have to tackle crazy car parking at the school again!

And best of all the price was right, we got it for a bargain!

Here it is.

Sorry about the terrible photo, will try to get a better one another day.

This is the back of the house.

We are going to extend the house out the back.

This is the lounge room, it is going to stay the lounge room after we renovate.

The empty beer case did not come with the house, it's one of our personal touches! The lounge faces the front of the house.

This is the dining room which is going to become the office after renovations. It a a lovely, light room, definitely the best room in the existing house (and no, I am not talking about it from a decor point of view!)

This is the kitchen which will become Tom's bedroom, lucky bugger gets the biggest bedroom in the house!

Here is the bathroom, this is going to be made slightly narrower and then made into a walk in linen closet. Thank goodness, it sure is ugly! And tiny!

This is a sort-of sun room that runs along the back of the house. It is going to become a mud room.

Here are the bedrooms.

The master is going to stay as it is except for knocking out the built in wardrobe. The bedroom next to it will become a walk-in robe and ensuite, and the third bedroom (which I didn't take a photo of) will become a bathroom.

This is the garage. It is also going to be knocked down.

The garage has a couple of rooms attached to it that were used as offices. They are getting knocked over with the garage. Tom thinks this is a great shame, he would like to use one of the rooms for his drum kit/music room and the other as a room for him and his mates to hang out in. Umm, maybe you could use your enormous bedroom?

Here is another shot of the backyard.

So as you can see, it all needs a lot of work, it took my a while to be able to see past what is there,

This weekend work begins with the removal of the tree in the above photo and site preparation. In others words this lovely back yard is about to be transformed into a mud pit.

Will post the plans for the new house later.