We have a date!!!! I’m so excited!! We will be moving December 27th from New York to Nashville! I’m sure, since this is a design / lifestyle blog, you are waiting to see a picture of our new house?? ME TOO lol!! we don’t have a house yet. BUT we are traveling to Nashville this Friday to have a blind date with 3 potential homes!! Like any blind date, ( as if I know..Ive been with my husband since we were 17..) we are feeling anxious, and excited and full of hope that one of these little homes will be IT. We are also staying very open to whatever may pop up!!
As we get closer to move day, our NEEDS are starting to outweigh our WANTS. SO we started out with very strict parameters…ONLY 3 BEDROOMS, MUST HAVE HARDWOOD, MUST HAVE DISHWASHER, MUST HAVE AT LEAST 1 full and one HALF bath…now…as we are just 3 weeks away with NO HOME..our NEEDS are…2 bedrooms, hardwood floors, great neighborhood. YEP that’s our list, and everything else will be extra..isn’t it funny how things change?!! Most importantly for me, is that when I walk into a empty house, I can feel the potential of making it a home…even though it is JUST a rental. We made the mistake in New York of settling for whatever we could find, and I’m not doing that this time!!
So do you want to see?? Here are the three we are considering!!
House #1…. This is the first house we found that we both liked…we had friends go look at it, and their review was great..they said, Small but SUPER nice.
Pros: Beautiful Hardwood
GREAT neighborhood with best schools
HUGE yard -A full acre
Separate Den area (office, extra bedroom)
Garage
Basement
Least Expensive ( $825 per month!! can you imagine!! coming from New York this blows me away)
Cons:Only 1 bathroom and its SMALL
Kitchen has 2 different floors!! ( this is hard for me..)
Dishwasher is on rollers and doesn’t seem to fit in kitchen
Yard work- has to be done by us
House #2
Pros: Beautiful Hardwood
Good neighborhood
3 bedrooms
Bonus Room
Kitchen and Bath renovations just completed
Cons:Only 1 bathroom
Kitchen and Bath renovations just completed so we haven’t seen pictures
No Garage
No Basement ( this is a concern..everyone has told us to make sure we have a basement for storms)
House #3
Pros: Beautiful Hardwood
Good neighborhood
3 bedrooms
2 Bath
Awesome Kitchen with Slate Floors
Good Location
Nice Yard
Cons: ITS RENTED 🙁 WE JUST GOT A CALL FROM THE REALTOR! 11/30/12 Across from A Police acaedemy with firing range – may be loud?
No Basement
No Garage
Most Expensive ($950 per month…still crazy cheap..)
The only thing I know for sure, is the right house will show itself to us…and we will be on our way 🙂 stay tuned for updates and pictures from our last minute trip to find a new home!!!!
Happy Tuesday!!
Love, Kim
Good luck! I so know how you feel, I’ve moved a “few” times, lol. Feeling its potential is number one in my book, I have to be able to make it home, its Essential because of how often we move. Upon first glance, I am drawn to the last house… The kitchen floor is ah-mazing. :)) Cant wait to hear how it goes!
Heidi!! I love the third one too…If I had to pick JUST off pictures, there would be NO question..BUT I am trying to stay very open to whatever happens…I tend to get tunnel vision VERY quickly when it comes to what I want….so allowing things to happen as they may 😉
Kim, you stole the words right out of my mouth! I am also drawn to #3, and also tend to get tunnel vision too quickly. I even get obsessed and make excuses for the “cons.” I am sure you will find the perfect place. I am totally paranoid about storms. It’s weird…you’d think I had lived through a tornado or something. I totally understand the desire for a basement. In TX, they don’t have basements because of their clay soil. But they do have storm cellars. I have some good friends who made friends with the storm cellar so that they could seek shelter when they needed it. It’s turned into a storm/party shelter now. They look forward to the spring storm season so they can get together when life is so busy, have a glass of wine, watch the kids play and catch up as they wait out the storms. Crazy, but a great way to make new friends, I guess! Good luck. I’ll be thinking about you 🙂
How exciting! I hope you find one that you like, and don’t forget to “feel in” the area to see if you like it there too. Good luck!
@Jenna!! Its so crazy to have to think about things like Storm cellars!! But what a great thought! to use as a get away to relax!! Love that!!
@Sofia, YES!!! SO important to “Feel” the area too!!
Hey Kim, it is getting really real. I don’t know anything about basements with storms, but I would listen to your friends on that one. We slept in our basement when Sandy came. You will know it when it is right. Some more might come up, too. Good luck.
That third house would have been worth going for. Since it’s already taken out of the list, maybe that first house can be considered. A two-floor kitchen seems hazardous though, and most people don’t like having small bathrooms. You have to go look out for more options.