Saturday, November 7, 2009

My House



1,300 square feet. Attic storage (walk in), full basement with washer/dryer/sink. 3 bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, 1 bathroom. 1/10th of an acre, with woods behind house. On street parking. Oil heat, natural gas for stove and hot water. House built in 1926, original kitchen cabinets and soapstone sink. Built in bookshelves, beautiful detail work for wood trim and door ways. Hardwood floors throughout.

Dining room with built in book shelves and crown molding.My office upstairs...this room is intended as a bedroom. Low ceilings (hence "bungalow" style). Probably 12x16. The door you see in the corner lead to the attic storage space...you can walk right in. Several people have said that space would make a good second bathroom. It's a good idea. I don't have the $$ to do it, but someone will!Living room, with dogs of course.Kitchen, soapstone sink and original wood/glass cabinets.Bedroom on the first floor. Technically I think it is a "den" because it has no closet, but I use it as my bedroom. It is adjacent to the bathroom, which is a nice setup I think. Kitchen, different view. In addition to the shelving that I have, there is a built in pantry area (in the walkway next to the kitchen) that is huge. They built it over the basement stairs, a good use of what would otherwise simply be dead space. Another view of the living room, looking towards the front door.

The spare bedroom on the second floor.

Garden beds in the back yard. If someone didn't want them, it's easy enough to take the frames apart and spread the dirt for the yard instead... Looking at the house from the street. I don't have a driveway, but there's plenty of space in front of the house and the road is only driven by people who live in the neighborhood. It is a very low traffic area. On the topic of parking, though, it is possible to cut into the front hill to make a parking space or a driveway, I think. I have not gotten any quotes about it, but it seems to me that this is feasible. The second floor landing, hallway looking into the spare bedroom. The door to my office would be to the left of this view.

Back yard again. Woods behind house (I am pretty sure it's unbuildable), nice stone wall, garden beds, flower gardens with perennials, and I also have a great compost pile in the far corner.

My office, looking from my desk towards the second floor landing.

A view from the flat part of the roof, into the woods behind the house. You can just barely see the garden beds in the back yard for reference.


The view from 10 Briarcliff, looking towards Beaconsfield Road.

The second floor "nook" as seen from the very top of the stairs.


My bedroom, the door you see leads into the bathroom.

From the living room area towards the stairs to the second floor.

From the living room towards the dining room and kitchen.







I have changed the backyard some since I shot this, but I loved the way it felt so I included it.

6 comments:

pitchertaker said...

Look great, really great!!!

filterofsyntax said...

Glad to hear it! Wish I could have been more help! Did you get that bulkhead finished? That thing sucked! And how'd the porch come out?

Billie Mercer said...

House looks great. I hope that when the realtor puts them on the web they don't destroy them. I sometimes photograph rental houses/mansions here in San Miguel. I give them nice clean images sized for the web and the "web master" can make them look like hell.

tammy w said...

I love the one of the dog stretching on the porch. Now that one makes you feel like you should be living there with your own dog enjoying himself on the porch.

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