Talking with the daughter today, we were calculating if/when a move would be possible, because… Oh yeah. This place. The house we ALL fell in love with, including G. G even mentioned the daughter could live in the downstairs space. (We hadn’t seriously broached the subject until now.)
For the record, it’s further north than we really wanted to move – in fact, in the virtual back yard of where I grew up. But daaaaayammmm…..
Below is a gallery of why we were all googly-eyed about it. Looks like it’s 99% original finishes, minus the carpeting, which would eventually go anyway. No tacky 1970s MCM, either, except the sofa. I assume all the details hail from when the house was built, mid 1950s. This home is slightly higher priced than the previously-noted duplex, but also looks like it’s move-in ready, which the other home wasn’t. The carpet looks to be in good enough condition to be livable. We’d change that out when time and budget allow. It’s well within budget. (Link goes to the listing, so you can tell I’m not making this stuff up.)
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My first choice of home style would normally be Craftsman, but this MCM gem blew us all away.
Wowee, that is a real Mother-Daughter setup, huh? That basement is really set up to go, with a working kitchen and everything. I really dig the 50’s aesthetic, but what really sold me was…THE WOODEN TOILET SEAT! That’s something you can really go on.
How funny is it I didn’t even NOTICE the wooden toilet seat? Those colors are eye-searing in the bathroom, ha! But as I said – could live with it for the short run, for sure.
Wow! That is one fine well kept vintage home. I chuckled at the bathroom as my childhood home had the same color fixtures
I don’t mind the green – or the yellow. I love both colors. Just not in extreme saturation like that, lol.
It looks like it would be just great for everyone. I hope you can make more plans and possibly get it.
I don’t expect to get that home. First, we’re not ready to move yet – definitely not to that part of the world in wintertime. Second, we really don’t want to move that far north in the state, nor into a city that big. It’s not NYC, but at a population around 67K-ish, it’s still bigger than we’d like.