Yellow houses
House hunting is both fun and exhausting. Yesterday we drove through the four neighborhoods we were interested in and looked at the curb appeal of places selected by our realtor.
Today, we went back to our favorite hood with our realtor. We had six houses ear marked for viewings. We saw eleven over the course of 5 hours. Whew!
The first house today, had been my front runner after curb shopping. It sits on a cute, curvy street and has a fantastic lawn, complete with a mailbox made from a parking meter. However, inside it suffered from too many years of renters, smokers and peeing cats. Stinky!
As we moved on to house after house we started noticing a trend. They all seemed to be yellow. I made a snide comment about all the yellow houses. Our realtor laughed, saying that a couple years ago there was an article in a local paper saying that yellow houses had a better re-sale value than any other color. Now everyone paints their house yellow before they try to sell.
How strange! I’d much rather have a blue house. But there is something happy and fresh looking about a yellow house.
The winner for today was House #8, which is not yellow, but brick with a snazzy red front door. It has everything we are looking for except for a ton of storage space, but it does have the potential for adding more storage later.
It was built in the 1930′s and is part of a whole block of matching houses, all recently renovated or in the process of being made-over. It may be the house for us. We are going to sleep on it and see what we think tomorrow. How do you know when to stop looking?
I loved looking through your house photos. The brick one (#8) seems like it has a lot of personality. I love the windows and the red door. How exciting! I can’t wait to come visit again!
Comment by Arielle — April 12, 2006 @ 2:59 pm
I haven’t looked at all the photos yet but have to comment that any house I point to and say, I like that one, is BLUE. Why is that? When we re-side our house, it’s gonna be blue with white shutters.
Also — I loved that cute cottegy house and could totally relate to the mold and icky smell. i can’t tell you how many cut a s abutton homes” we saw that inside were just scary and smelly.
Comment by rosie — April 18, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
I love blue with white shutters! That’s going to look great. I see almost any brick house and have to point and say “cute”. That’s a lot of “cute” down here, since there’s plenty of brick to go around, especially in the expensive neighborhoods.
Comment by Marijka — April 18, 2006 @ 5:17 pm