When my family decided to move, we agreed we wanted a smaller house, something charming and “cozy”. This meant that we looked for months because anything that wasn’t huge was extremely small.
We had several options, but there seemed to be something wrong with each of them. Finally, we decided to go with our gut instinct. As it turns out, this was the house that needed the most work.
The house was adorable on the outside with a big bay window in front, a nice little porch, and plenty of yard for flowers and plants and such. However, the inside was a completely different story.
The kitchen had brown linoleum that sounded like velcro when we walked across it. The living room had poofy white carpet, white walls, white built-ins, white popcorn ceiling, white everything. The hallways were okay, but the bedrooms had the same poofy white carpeting. With the exception that in the bedrooms it was dirty and needed replacing.
In a lot of ways, it looked like a nightmare. However, we bought it.
We spent a lot of time replacing carpet and knocking out a wall to make a doorway. We added on to the closet to make it a walk-in. We also had to put down tile in the bathroom and kitchen because of the horrible linoleum. This is where we thought it would end. We were wrong.
The kitchen wall caved in because they walled up a chimney, spewing bricks over and around the kitchen table. The upper part of the bathroom shower began to collapse because they didn’t use the right kind of sheet rock.
The bathroom floor began to sink because they didn’t use the right kind of joists underneath. Overall, it was kind of a nightmare, but we still love the house. Our real estate agent even brought us a cute decorative plant as a housewarming gift for all the trouble.
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