I have a friend in Quebec who speaks fluent French and is mostly fluent in English. Except he always says “feets” for the plural of “foot”. I wouldn’t put it past him to use it as an affectaion, mind you. However, I know it’s not.
In this case, I might borrow the term from him. There are so many square feet in today’s house porn, it warrants “feets”. Remember I mentioned other homes in better condition than the previous one, for roughly the same price? I was mistaken about it being in the same town. It’s not. It’s relatively close by, though.
This house isn’t on my list. The home and property are spectacular. The kitchen has been updated and is utterly gorgeous. From what I can tell, there aren’t any scary repairs to be done. And the asking price is easily doable. But this sucker is four thousand square feet, and not even one downstairs bedroom. Yeah, I could probably put in a chair lift. Heck, with that many square feet there’s space for a full-on elevator. But alas, both those things are going to exceed our budget.
Darn it.
Still showing pictures and linking to the listing, just so you can drool along with me.
I don’t typically include yard pictures – but this is a quarter-acre of gorgeous. And while it doesn’t back to acres of open forest, it is in a beautiful neighborhood, about 6-7 blocks from a lake. So there is that. It’s a little more than a mile from a bigger lake – and roughly three miles from an even larger one.
It’s also about 6 blocks from a grocery store, which I value more than proximity to the lakes.
The town also has a McDonald’s and a WalMart Supercenter. Take those as you will.
Nice digs, right? Just wait.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen – or heard of – pocket French doors before.
Okay, the wallpaper’s gotta go, and probably the carpet. But it’s not something I couldn’t live with short-term since looks like it’s only in a handful of areas, and what’s there appears to be in good shape. Incidentally, there are two dining areas shown in photos. I assume one must be part of an eat-in kitchen, which means the dining room is up for grabs for other uses. But in this house, I can’t swear they don’t just have two separate dining rooms.
See? I told you the kitchen was updated. But from what I can see, the upper cabinets next to the window and sink are either original or were customized to echo window and door styles throughout the house. (I also appreciate the gas stove. Electric stoves are evil.)
They didn’t have a closeup of the fireplace surround, not for this house. (For another house in the area, they did.) Looks like custom tiles to me, though.
The bathroom obviously needs paint or tile behind the tub, but nothing about that is scary to me.
The bedroom isn’t spectacular or exciting. But like the rest of the house, looks to be in good repair and perfectly serviceable. This is one of four bedooms.
Oh. Yeah, there is the other part of the bedroom. Look the other way, and voilà!
If this were my house, there would be a significant change in furnishings. The Persian-style rug is okay, and the vintage-style dresser’s fine. Just tell me I’m not the only one who thinks that 1980s metal bed sticks out like a sore thumb. Go four-poster, go Craftsman/Mission style, go Shaker, or go Victorian – anything but the white whale.
As promised, the link to the listing is here. It’s being offered for even less money than the last home I posted.
Drool indeed. From both ends (I think it’s drool, anyway). You know what’s weird? We have a pocket French door – singular – between our kitchen and dining room. The dining room was an addition to the house, and that’s what they chose as a divider. I myself would have prefered it to have been a completely open passageway, but it is at least effective when we just want to cool or heat the main part of the house. Anyway, yeah, that place you’re showing here is very nice! I want a huge house when I grow up 🙂
I like the idea of pocket doors – because if you want to have an open passageway, just open them. They don’t take up floor space, won’t slam when a puff of wind comes through, etc. But if/when you want them closed, easy peasy. Of course that’s easy to say from the perspective of someone who’s never had them.
This ginormous house is gorgeous, no doubt. We just don’t want anything that big. Aside from not being able to keep up that much space, we don’t want the costs to heat the place in winter. It would be prohibitive. The 2500-ish sf one is actually pushing it. Our ideal is in the range of 1500-2000sf.
Beautiful. If there are two dining rooms and a bathroom on the main level, could you convert one of the dining rooms to a bedroom?
I’m sure you could convert the dining room to a bedroom. It’s got to be 2000sf on the ground floor, so there is guaranteed to be somewhere you could carve out a bedroom. However – like I told Dangerspouse – we don’t want anything this big, both from the perspective of upkeep and of heating costs in winter. But I did think the house was beautiful enough to warrant sharing.