Showing posts with label home-buying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home-buying. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

a new home.

it's official!
we're home owners!











kevin and i bought our first house, and plan to move in on june 25th. we are so excited to move to downtown hamilton, to meet our neighbors, and to make our new place look and feel like home.

we actually went back to the second house we looked at...we couldn't stop thinking about it! the whole process of buying has has been an amazingly smooth experience for us. God is so good to us...he is always providing and surprising. also, susan, our real estate agent, has been absolutely amazing, and we feel really great about this decision.
















over the next few weeks i will be posting some pictures of the house, and trying to decide on some decorating and renovating ideas. suggestions and feedback would be great. kevin and i are so new to this, we don't even know what kind of paint to buy!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

a new home?













today we'll be looking at two more houses, and then taking a trip back to one we looked at on saturday (we love this one, we can't stop thinking about it!).

it's really hard to know which houses we should be looking at. we've scouted out the mls.ca website,and found a few more that look nice (these are the one's we'll be looking at today). but as long as they don't look like that 3rd house we checked out last time, i'll be happy.

hope you have a happy day today! enjoy the sunshine.

(picture #1: 'welcome' by ashleyg...etsy)
(picture #2: 'its raining again' by swallowfield...etsy)

Sunday, April 6, 2008

a new home?

















so we went house-hunting.
it was fun and stressful and romantic and totally terrifying.
but mostly it's exciting.

we've looked at three so far (all in downtown hamilton).
1#: beautiful brick exterior, nice interior, bad neighborhood.
2#: gorgeous interior, homely exterior (no pun intended...), good neighborhood.
3#: quite terrible in general. in fact, we were keeling over with laughter as we toured it, because it was so terrible that being optimistic was hilarious. not to mention the surprise child in one of the beds...

so far we can't stop thinking about #2...
it's a great size for us. it is 2.5 stories, has beautiful floors, with a new kitchen, a lovely porch, and an awesome loft (kevin loves that part)....3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and big beautiful windows.

but we'll be looking at three more on wednesday.
who knows if this is even the right time for us...
so pray for us as we consider it.
we'll keep you posted.

(picture: 'little boxes on the hillside' by swallowfield...etsy)