Houses

So R and I are seriously considering selling our home. It feels weird but somehow the right thing to do.

In our relationship, R is the dreamer and I am the practical one. He often has grand plans that I shoot down with the costs and hassles of his plan or a general NO. A couple weeks ago he sent me a link for a house for sale that was very 'us'. And for once I thought "that's a good idea."

We bought our first house a little over 2 years ago. We were in a nice apartment but had crazy landlords and with the economy tanking we thought we might have a good chance of getting a deal. We looked at a variety of houses and picked this cute little white house with a big fenced in back yard in a great neighborhood. We had a hellish time closing; turned out it was short sale and it took almost 3 months to close. We swore it would be a long time before we moved again! We have treated our little house well- painting, cleaning, organizing, new windows, new fence, new counter tops.

Our house -before



Our house-after (the door is now a great dark blue...hmm, I don't think I have a photo)

 But in the past few months or so I have had a feeling that we had reached critical mass with the house. We did the counter tops and I realized that there wasn't a whole lot of other things we could do without spending major dough and disrupting our lives with a big construction project. I also had to ban R from bringing in any more furniture; we just don't have room. This was a thought in the back of our minds being pregnant with Stella but we had plans to raise her in our tiny house and we'd be happy. Now we  wonder if a fresh start would be nice. R asked me what I thought of having the baby in a new house, not in the baby's room now. Somehow that would be good. Then it could always be Stella's room.

Anyway, last weekend we went to look at that house that was very 'us'. It's a funky house with a lot of land. It needs work, a lot of updating, but we aren't averse to work. At first I thought I may be crazy thinking about all this and being pregnant but it's not so crazy. I am a do-it-yourself-er but I might have paid someone to move our furniture being pregnant or not. And should we get this house with the cathedral ceilings we'd have to pay someone to paint as well. I can still pick out colors (I love colors!) and supervise! And isn't it better to do it now before we have a crawling or walking little person?

So this got us going and we had the super realtor who helped us with our house out to see the house again the other day. She's going to tell us what she thinks we can get for it when we meet on Sunday. Then we decide if we list it or not, stay or move.

On a side note, poor R was the one to show the realtor around the house and when she saw the baby room she was all excited. He had to tell her everything. I know it's hard for him to talk about it.

Of course I'm scared about it all. I wonder if this is the bad idea, the bad thing we do, that will break us. But we're resourceful. We're not above doing whatever it takes to live the way we want.

The extra space inside and out is appealing as well as the new adventure. The new colors and designs and furniture placement! I imagine crazier things have been done.