After 3 years of forclosure and working super hard on my credit rating, I was able to purchase another forclosed house with a VA loan through Wells Fargo. It has a very large living room, big kitchen, four bedrooms, 2 baths (OK, one bath and one shower), nice breakfast area, oversized 2 car garage, and did I mention the astromech lab? It's in the basement as an unfinished bedroom, right next to the finished bedroom (and the one shower). Speaking of basement, aformentioned guest room and bath, laundry room, and a HUGE open area with a fireplace. The fireplace area will be my den/living area and the other space will be my home theatre (to watch all those Star Wars movies) and built in bar with sink (if the plumbers can put a water line in). And new carpets and paint to make it my own.
Lots of backyard for the cats and AL to play in, too. I'm planning to make a lot of winding sidewalks in the yard to test my R2-AL (see his blog at r2-al.blogspot.com), along with the outdoor patio. I hate mowing lawns, so I'm trying to design it with minimal yard work. Definitely a tough shed for more storage (lawn mower, I guess), a BBQ queen's grill and work space, and maybe a small hot tub (later, after I've fixed everything, like a new water heater and some plumbing leaks that aren't that bad).
Today I started with the carpets. Last Friday my roomate took me way north to The Floor Trader, a subsidiary of Carpet One. After looking at several other carpet places in town over a two week period, I've decided to hire them because of thier gracious and kind customer service. I have to give a big thanks to Sonja who helped me pick out carpet and bathroom tile. She listened to what I wanted, what my needs were, and came up with perfect low-cost solutions. Bob was also very helpful in explaining things to me and coming up with a very good padding for my basement with my asthma in mind. We'll be meeting him this Thursday at the house so he can take measurements of all the rooms, not just the carpeted ones, so that if in the future I want to do some more tiling or wood flooring I'll have the measurements.
So, to put into perspective, my colors for this house will be wheat walls, mocha/tan carpet main floor, rust carpet basement, natural gold-hued tile in both bathrooms, and Sonja is coming up with something to tie it all together in the entry. I'll use rust and cobalt blue for accent pillows/furniture/whatever with (I hope) a cobalt blue bar in the basement. I can't say enough about The Floor Trader. Please visit their website....
Until next time,
Jawa Jake
Happily transforming a house for my little friend, R2-AL
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment