New house pictures!
Jun. 5th, 2003 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaWe got the keys for our new house on Sunday. I went a little crazy with the camera.
Here's the outside of the house. The picture actually shows the entire width of the building - the black drainpipe on the far left marks the property line. For Baltimore, at 15 feet this is considered to be a wide rowhouse. However, this particular neighborhood is so full of ex-mansions that our house looks quite svelte.
Here are two pictures of the living room. The fireplaces don't actually work, but aren't they lovely? I'm calling the wall color "tea."
You couldn't swing a cat in the kitchen without bringing the SPCA down on your ass immediately. Nonetheless, it's cute and well laid-out. There's plenty of storage if you're eight feet tall - I forsee a stepstool in constant use.
At the top of the stairs to the second floor, there's an open area we're going to use as a study. By the way, that's not a marble fireplace - it's wood with a faux finish. This is what the designers on Trading Spaces wish they could do.
Our bedroom opens off the study. The wall color is more attractive than this, honest.
The guestroom is in the attic. I love the red. You should picture yourself in this room visiting us, unless you have trouble with stairs - in which case, you should picture![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
curiousangel and me in this room and yourself in our room. (If you really have trouble with stairs, there's a lovely hotel just down the street.)
Right now, this is my favorite thing about the house:
Here's the outside of the house. The picture actually shows the entire width of the building - the black drainpipe on the far left marks the property line. For Baltimore, at 15 feet this is considered to be a wide rowhouse. However, this particular neighborhood is so full of ex-mansions that our house looks quite svelte.
Here are two pictures of the living room. The fireplaces don't actually work, but aren't they lovely? I'm calling the wall color "tea."
You couldn't swing a cat in the kitchen without bringing the SPCA down on your ass immediately. Nonetheless, it's cute and well laid-out. There's plenty of storage if you're eight feet tall - I forsee a stepstool in constant use.
At the top of the stairs to the second floor, there's an open area we're going to use as a study. By the way, that's not a marble fireplace - it's wood with a faux finish. This is what the designers on Trading Spaces wish they could do.
Our bedroom opens off the study. The wall color is more attractive than this, honest.
The guestroom is in the attic. I love the red. You should picture yourself in this room visiting us, unless you have trouble with stairs - in which case, you should picture
curiousangel and me in this room and yourself in our room. (If you really have trouble with stairs, there's a lovely hotel just down the street.)Right now, this is my favorite thing about the house:
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Date: 2003-06-05 05:39 pm (UTC)And you're welcome any time, of course.
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Date: 2003-06-05 06:03 pm (UTC)Maybe one of these years I'll make it back out that direction and visit.
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Date: 2003-06-05 06:10 pm (UTC)Looking at your photos is bringing out my Sims house-building urges, but I have work to do :(
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Date: 2003-06-05 06:52 pm (UTC)I think we should all come stay in the red room. (-:
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Date: 2003-06-05 07:02 pm (UTC)I now anticipate an utter stampede of people who want to stay in the red room with you. :-)
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Date: 2003-09-15 02:20 pm (UTC)What's stopping you?
My boxroom (currently masquerading as office as it was the first room I could finish) has white walls and ceiling with the slightest hint of green. At the height of the dado rail (windowsill or threabouts) there is a stencilled border in dark green. Underneath a darker-than-wanted fluffy green sponged bit. Dark green skirting boards.
The back bedroom (soon to be office) has a very slightly blue ceiling, and the walls are half darkish blue and half a lot lighter. (I really need to put up a picture). Dark blue woodwork. My mum said 'ahem' on the phone and 'oh, that's nice' in person. Blue carpet follows when the last bits are painted.
My bedroom is going to be white with the slightest yellow tint, a border of some sorts and some value of yellow stencilling that I'll work out when I get around to it.
Just do it. The first room I did in this fashion I was terribly shy in case I would hate it, but although the paint looked diferent on the wall than it had in the tin (almost turquoise rather than green, not very calming) I liked it just fine.
You can always paint it over again.
Nice house, Rivka. And it's a sign how much I like mine that for the first time I don't feel envy when I see other people's nice houses.
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Date: 2003-09-15 03:53 pm (UTC)*blink*
Me? Not a thing. That was my point.
(As Rivka knows, there's not a white wall in my house. See:
http://www.peak.org/~kightp/newhome.html )
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Date: 2003-06-05 06:56 pm (UTC)Come down and make me dinner! I'm a very appreciative eater. ;-)
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Date: 2003-06-05 07:12 pm (UTC)I hope you will be very happy there.
Pamela
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Date: 2003-06-05 09:02 pm (UTC)Rivka, it's wonderful! I am sitting here picturing myself and Himself in the guest room as I type. We are SO gonna be visiting y'all sometime this year.
If a Certain Someone would email me Her new street address it is entirely possible I have a Little Something by way of House Warming giftie to send Her way. Nothing huge, just a small token of steam kind of thing.
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Date: 2003-06-05 09:16 pm (UTC)This looks like a home with character. :)
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:02 am (UTC)Your backyard looks wonderfully sunny, at least at that time of day. The steps up make me think that you also have a cellar. What's that like?
hobbitbabe,
waking up in a red-brick rowhouse with radiators and one non-working fireplace, built in either 1874 or 1876.
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:14 am (UTC)The backyard is never sunny, so it must be a weird trick of the light in the picture. That's why I was interested in your post about shade-friendly plants. To be honest, Baltimore summers are so insanely hot that the idea of a permanently shady yard is quite appealing.
The basement is a separate studio apartment. It has its own entrance just below our entrance, and doesn't share our yard. No one lives there right now - I wouldn't mind having it stay that way.
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Date: 2003-06-06 06:50 am (UTC)Yes, it is very pleasant (even in this climate) to sit and read outside in the shade.
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Date: 2003-06-06 05:55 am (UTC)Lovely place."
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Nice!
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Date: 2003-06-06 09:10 am (UTC)Beautiful pictures
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