Movin’ On Up!
The Crooked house is approaching an inconceivable place: a state of good repair. An as it needs me less and less, I’m finding myself falling out of love with it. I’ve been lusting for places with serious woodwork, light from all 4 sides, and some space to plant things. So, I’ve negotiated early access to the family trust fund and taken the plunge!
I LOVE MY NEW HOUSE!!! It’s in the Pelham Historic District in West Mount Airy. If you don’t know Philadelphia and are older than me, it might mean something to you that it’s the neighborhood where Thirtysomething was set.
Just look at these stairs!
And the dining room has an inglenook that’s big enough to be a dining room! I finally have room to really entertain!
The floor plan is wonderfully open. No more 14 foot lots for me!
And the front door is just like The Money Pit house! Love!! I don’t think I’ll have problems like in that movie. It’s a very well built house.
And I finally have a closet with enough room to hold all my clothes. Plus some pretty sick paneling.
It does have a few flaws. These inappropriate replacement windows will have to go post haste. Just no. Especially with the transoms in place to remind you how much better the original windows were. I’m seeing if the Irishman can make me some true divided light wooden casements. This is basically my first priority after I take the place over.
Have another look!
The good news is all that ornament is pressed metal. The nylon cup brushes I just bought to clean up my old bathroom floor should make it look like new in a jiffy. I figure a couple months to give the place a spit shine and I should be ready to move in by labor day.
Anyways, we’ll have so much more to talk about very soon!
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April Fools, right?!? (Although, that house deserves the kind of love and attention you could bring to it.)
And a Happy April Fool’s Day to you, too!
April Fools?!
Today, of all days, is the perfect day for such surprising news! Congrats!
And I am SO excited that I am going to send you, by special courier, a check for $1M to help out with the new place!!!!!
Oh, Chad! How could you possibly want to move into a place with such filthy woodwork?
If this is a joke, you got me good.
I like your humour and want to fix this house badly! Happy April fools. Trust fund baby. Lol
Well if you decide to move to Philly and save it we can be best friends and I will make sure to buy you LOTS of beer
Agreed! That sounds like a good deal … Wait that’s a lot of work and I’d have to go through that whole green card thing. Hmmm
And you have negative equity until you close your walls up again
That wouldn’t be a job for profit.
haha I meant we both have to finish what we started before it would even be possible to sell out
Lol. I was in dream world. No thoughts of actuality and finances. I need money to start my own renovation. We are just demo-ing and sorting out how to make something out of nothing on the renovation financial front. A girl can dream though. I could be a house saving super hero.
Well, that makes 2 years in a row that I fell for an April fools’ post. Last year it was a fire?
It was a house collapse! And don’t sweat it, people who know me in real life fell for it too!
I’m imagining your painting angst in covering all that turquoise. What’s the title of the blog that goes with your new place: Chad’s Chateau Challenge? Jo @ Let’s Face the Music
I think if I did this outside of April Fool’s Day, it would have to be titled Chad’s Adventures in Foreclosure
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