What a difference a couple of days makes! On Wednesday morning we saw a house that made us go, "Hmmmm...?" On Thursday evening we put in an offer and got a taste of negotiations. And this afternoon we did a three-hour home inspection, signed on the dotted line and bought ourselves a house.
Somebody pinch me!
After seeing lots of places in the east end of town, where several of our amazing friends live, we are staying in the west end. In the end, it was just the right house! So we are a few blocks south of Eglinton West Station and very close to my Best Woman and her family.
So, without further ado, we introduce our very first home to you:
It is a little bit boxy, but also strong and sturdy. Check out the gorgeous Japanese Maple on the front lawn:
The door was slightly ajar in this foyer shot - there isn't a huge gap at the top when it's closed!
(Did you notice the gorgeous slate on the floor? It goes right down the hallway and through the kitchen.
Living room, which is just to the left when you come in the front door:
Which is open to the dining room:
Which is open to my favourite room of all - the kitchen:
(I have big plans to make lots of yummy things in here!)
Then we turn and go back down the hall and up the stairs:
We have the master bedroom:
What will be the nursery:
And what will be the office:
(This room is actually a decent size, but I am not a very good house photographer!)
Amazingly for an old Toronto home, all of the bedrooms have closets! They aren't big closets by any stretch of the imagination, but they are closets!
Then we have the lovely bathroom, which also has fantastic slate floors:
And it houses the washer and the dryer! (I am doubly ecstatic to have my very own washer and dryer AND to have them on the second floor!! Oh, such grown up dreams!)
Put on your disco shoes for the next part of the tour, because we are heading to the basement, which looks like a set from "That '70s Show."
From a door in the hallway, just past the stairs, but before the kitchen, we come down a few stairs to the side door:
Then there's a right turn and all the way down the funky red stairs with flecks of silver:
To our orange and brown formica-tiled basement with the wood-burning fireplace:
Here's the view the other way, where you can see all the space and the door to the bathroom:
Which is very creatively decorated:
(I didn't take a picture of the shower, but there is a shower in the basement bathroom that ain't pretty, but nor is it scary!)
There are several other rooms in the basement, including the one with the water heater and furnace and stuff, which is under the stairs and then, when you take a hard left at the bottom of the stairs, there's this "kitchen":
(There's even a little table that folds up from the wall on the opposite side from this. Although describing it as a table might be going too far. It's more of a ledge...) And through the kitchen there's another door and a cold room.
Now we go outside, where I've spared you a photo of our private driveway and lovely detached garage with a paved floor, to skip to the backyard, which has lots of potential, but needs a little TLC:
And by TLC, I mean grass. We'll be pulling up these interlocking bricks next spring and laying down some sod for sure!
There are two
fantastic parts about the location! The first is that we are DIRECTLY across the street from this beautiful playground:
This should come in extremely handy in the next decade!
And the second is that we are less than a 5-minute walk from Cedarvale park, which is huge fantastic park:
We saw a cricket game in progress:
And the Husband was happy to see the big dog run area for our future canine:
And here we are, the very excited new home owners! (It's too bad they haven't slapped the "sold" sign on it yet!)
