The Old Place

 

This is the house that I sold in June.

You may not know but this is 

actually two homes in one. 

I owned the siding part, and my

neighbor owns the brick part. 

That is the only brick that is on her

house, the rest is like mine was, 

wood siding. 

I found these pics on line when Rebecca was

selling it and just recently located them

again. See where the driveway (gravel) ends?

It ends there cause I wanted it to end there. 

When I bought, both sides were for sale

from the owner. He lived in Fla. and rented

out both sides. The gravel drive actually 

went all the way around and connected 

in the back. I had some issues with my

neighbor's son coming out my drive

so for me it was a given that 

the drives needed to be seperate.

With that being said, the gravel went

all the way to the shed. I let the yard grow

in. Of course after taking on mom's dogs

I had to have that part of the yard fenced in.

Here are the pics Rebecca had taken for the sale.

Living room.

I put the open ended shelving in. Took the 

hand rail out and built this. 

I left the word HOME so the buyer could

feel at home when he moved in.

If you go back to the first pic you will see

that I put a divider up at the living 

room and the hall.

The kitchen. These were ulgy cabinets when

I moved in, builder grade wood. I painted them

shortly after moving in and again

before selling.

Before painting them for the sale

I had ivy leavs above each knob

on the cabinets. You can see the 

ceiling fan got the ivy too.

Peel and stick flooring I laid.

In the pic below you can see

the pantry door open.

When I moved in there was some mavue 

boarder up near the ceiling. The chair rail

was there so I papperd under it and painted.

This is the hall between the living room

and the kitchen. The air unit is in 

the last closet. The other closet

was a linen closet but most things

you store in the linen closet is 

sheets and bath towels...

But bedrooms were upstairs!

I did not need this closet downstairs.

So I turned it into a coat closet since

there was not one. 

Downstairs bathroom.

This also included the same 

builder grade cabinet and since

I could not afford to put new in, it

also got paint. I did however have

new counter and facuets put in, along

with new lighting. The toliet is not original to

the house either.  I also framed

in the mirror. 

This is the washing machine area which

is in the middle of that hall on the other

end of the bathroom. I put up all

the shelves for storage. 

The only storage in this place was

under the stairs, which is to the 

left of the hotwater heater....

this required jumping up on the

washer and over it. Christmas times

was a blast digging all that out.

Upstairs bathroom.

Here again, painted cabinets and I framed

in the mirror, new counter tops and 

faucets, new lighting. Peel and 

stick floorings, same as downstairs.

Master bedroom.

Back bedroom.

And the other back bedroom.

This room I did added the one wall

of 1/2 beadboard. I totally love this color

of walls. I framed out the window 

also.  I had also framed out the one

in the living room and had I stayed the 

other two bedrooms would have been done.

See the painted mouse

hole? There is a bench

and a tree with it..

The screened in deck. I loved

this cause it was inclosed by

the fencing that seperated my deck

from the neighbors deck and on the 

other side the trees from the deck.

No one ever knew you were sitting

out there. 

 Aeiral view on the yard....check out

my colorful stepping stones. 

Oh and the sunflower painting

on the shed!!

All those trees lining to 

side of my place with the creek

running under them all. 

Here is the shed I had installed years

ago. So much great room.

One reason I decided to blog about this

is cause I had a package that got delivered

over there a couple weeks ago. I drove over,

put a note on dudes door and asked them to call

me. When he called I went over to pick it up.

We had never met. He was telling me that

he thought he would be selling this 

spring. He is really not happy with stairs...

He had took down the fence and he

installed tile flooring where I had

peel and stick. But the issue he is 

really afraid of is...

the neighbors place. 

You see Marica has never been on top

of getting repairs done. The wood siding

has become an issue over the years. It is an older

style of wood they used to use in the 80s. 

It is like pressed partical board, sealed together with an 

waxy type substance. When I moved

there is was not bad, but apparently this is

stuff that breaks down over time. It had 

gotten to the point that I was having to

replace wood on the house every spring. 

I was replacine, Marcia however was not.

I had my deck updated, however she had

hers torn down and at this point

not replaced. In 2019 I saw her once.

She has moved to Knoxville and is 

living with her son and his family. I think

she is trying to decide to sell or not to sell.

She would have a friend come by every

so often and check the place out. In

2019 the friend came in the winter and 

found a leak, the living room ceiling

had fell in. She had guys there fixing 

and repairing but she never came home. 

I was told by the guys fixing it that all

was repaired. In talking to the dude

that bought my old place he is really

concerned because apparently the pipes

upstairs leaked again, causing the living

room ceiling to fall in again. He said it

was not caught soon enough and the 

house is a wreck, with mold growing

also. He is really concerned about that mold.

I don't blame him. Black mold grows and

travels. He said apparently Marcia is

in the process of sueing those that did 

the work last time. But there again, if 

you are not there to catch a problem

then part of the problem falls on you.

YIKES...so glad I am not

dealing with that. 

Pam