Tonica's Place In Cyberspace: our humble abode
Disclaimer: we wrote most of this shortly after buying our hour in 2003.
The pictures are from that time period as well.
We bought a house! We signed the initial paperwork on 2003-01-27 and we
closed on 2003-02-28! Yee haa. We haven't had a lot of time to enjoy it
yet, but have found a bit of time to sit on the porch, walk through the
woods, and enjoy life in the country. Jester is in little
doggy heaven. He has a new best friend, Zed [now deceased :(], and
has finally found the limits of his puppy-energy and is usually ready to
passout before we even head to work. Lucky dog.
The property consists of six forested acres with a sizable stream
running through the middle. The house is fairly spacious with cedar siding,
hardwood/tile flooring, Jenn-Air[tm] island in the kitchen, vaulted
living-room/great-room ceiling with skylights, central vacuum,
marble-floored sun room with hot tub, and a
fireplace.
In the back there is both a screened-in porch as well as a open-air
deck.
Only three disadvantages: the neighborhood is of mixed house quality
(the rapid pace of development in the area should
render this issue moot - it's a gamble), the commute is non-trivial
(we learn to live with it), and it only has two bedrooms (affects
resale - can always build another room).
The property is the closest we've found to our dream house and we only
slightly exceeded what we wanted to pay. The kids (Grody, Meso, and Jester) will be
pleased to have a bit of room; Monica has the house and hot-tub she always
wanted; and Todd can get all primal in the woods. ;)
Property listing and Franklin County records:
Included is the realty listing, and lots of info I gathered off
of the Franklin County
site, or more specifically this site. We are parcel 6115.
Some house exteriors (to include outside structures):
Back, front, driveway, driveway, well (will make look nicer), terraced
steps (need to be completed), broken hot-tub heater, propane tank (need to
camoflage), shed (need to make prettier), dog pen (need to clean up).
NOTE (2006): we have cleaned up a lot of the crap laying around since
these photos were taken. We have also shingled and painted the well-house
and replaced the roof, furnace, and air-conditioner. The hot-tub has long
been fixed and we converted the gas-log fireplace to real wood!
Most photos taken in January of 2003.
Various photos showing off the land (2003-01-29):
The stream really was a big big plus for us. The sellers didn't even
advertise it! Can you believe it?
Stream, stream, stream, stream, view from stream to house, view
from house to road
House interiors - (need far more photos):
Jenn-Air[tm] kitchen, great room, great room, sun room (marble tile
and hot tub!, great room, great room. Hmm... need more photos of the
rest of the house.
Most photos taken in January of 2003.
Some of the homes and whatnot in the neighborhood:
There are some ratty houses/trailers in the neighborhood, but then
there are also some nicer places. We took these photos during the
time leading up to the decision to buy. I especially liked the
trailor with a tarp on its roof, x-mas decorations (it's the end of
January), misc. junk in the yard, and seven cars parked in
front.
Photos taken around the end of January, 2003.
This document and all photos contained within, or immediately linked
to, ©2001-2006 by Todd A. Warner <taw@pobox.com>
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