our house

[Sara]

Our house was built in the 50's. I look at new homes online a lot. Some are quite nice, but some look so cheaply built. Our house has good construction, but it's reaching that point where it needs a lot of repair, maintenance and upkeep. We need so many repairs. :( (windows, roof, driveway, flooring, etc) Not to mention the cosmetic updates. Yikes. I do like that our street has mature trees and the architectural style varies considerably house to house.

I have a thing about old homes with creepy attics and basements. Childhood fears remain. LOL Fortunately, ours has a nice attic and finished basement. Right now we use a bonus room upstairs as attic space.

If you have an older home, tell me about it.

[Michelle]

I don't own an older home, but I did fall in love with a house before we bought this one. It was an older colonial...I want to say it was built in like 1920 or so. We went all the way up to inspection, and it failed. Miserably. I was heartbroken. But I did love it and would love to have a home just like it. I'm going to see if I can find out exactly when it was built. Maybe even a picture LOL

If we ever move, I'll be looking for an older home or at least one not built by the builder who made this one LOL

[cheles2kids]

Well, ours was built in 1974, would that be considered old?

Anyhoo, we bought this home & moved in March of this year and reason for buying?
Quality construction, plain & simple. Of course the increase in sq. footage also helped.

It's a brick, ranch style with a fully completed downstairs basement.
It looks like that they did almost a 70/30 split. They left about 30% of it for the garage and the rest was completely finished.
We use this room for the rec. room, we have the weights and pool table down there.
The kids love it.

We moved from a subdivision home that was built in the middle 90's to this one and there is no comparison, whatsoever.
I think even some of the ones that are being thrown together today aren't really what they should be.

We don't actually have anything we *need* to do, but lots of little upgrades we *want* to do.
Different paint, replacing both the doors, mulching, planting some new trees, updating the bathrooms (the hallway bathroom has this looooong vanity cabinet, I'd say it's a good 5.5 ft. long), that bathroom also has carpet in it.
Carpet in the bathroom is one place it doesn't belong.

This is only our second home and now that Mike is retired, this is the home we are planning on spending our senior years in.

We feel comfortable in this home.
But I think that has more to do with knowing we don't have to move again-thankfully!