The Charmer in fall
I haven't written about house-love in awhile, so this one's dedicated to the one I love: The Charmer.
We have lived here for three months now and maybe we're still in the honeymoon phase, but I'm diggin' this house like crazy. My orange kitchen is so cozy when I'm making dinner and the girls are "cooking" in their kitchen. The library has become "the drawing room" since we put both of the girls' easels in there. The sun porch is the play room with all the toys and it is downright lovely to spend an afternoon in there. The living room just got a little less echo-y with the purchase of two, soft yellow love seats facing each other in front of the fireplace. All of the ducts and the chimney were cleaned this morning, meaning I cranked the heat this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed standing on the big vent in the kitchen until my toes were a little too toasty.
Our must-do house project for this year is to get a new roof. And that started today. The roofers were here all day, dropping the old roof into a truck-sized dumpster in the driveway. Where they pulled the old roof off, they attached new plywood. Tomorrow will be more of the same, plus the garage. Then they are going to cover it with some sort of hurricane-proof something and leave it until Monday, when they will be back to finish the job. I guess there were 4+ layers of roof in some places. They even discovered that one of the dormers had plywood and several layers of shingles attached over the original cedar shingles (the house was built 95 years ago). And none of this surprises me.
As I said, we also had the vents cleaned this morning. The girls and I went to Baby Circus while that was happening and Dude told me a horror story when I came home. Apparently, the guy asked Dude to come look inside the cold-air return in the library. He shined his flashlight in and there, about 8" in, were some sort of dried droppings. Dude said they weren't wet-fresh, but they also weren't old-old. And they were bigger than that of a mouse. EEEEWWWWW!!! Fortunately, the guy said we don't need to use that return because there are several others on this floor and he closed it after he cleaned it. But this means that we've got to hire someone to go in the crawlspace under our house to a) close any openings that might exist between it and our basement; and b) see if they can see anything living under there.
Despite this possible rodent issue that will be resolved soon, I'm finding our home to be absolutely wonderful as we move into fall. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's not super drafty and I'm still very, very much charmed.
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alright... if you're going to brag about it, you should at least include pictures.
Well, I can't very well post pictures of the rooms in my house while they're messy (that would be bad form) so...I'll have to either take some pictures at night after the girls are asleep and the house has regained some sanity OR run through the house snapping shots in the five minutes after the cleaning ladies leave and before the girls have redestroyed the joint. I'll do my best to accomplish one of these. :)
Does the Charmer have a front porch? I really want a front porch...
Yep - not a huge front porch, but still a front porch with some chairs on it. There are three steps up from the sidewalk to our yard; a cement walkway from those steps to the front steps of our house (I think there are about 8 of those); and voila - the porch. The girls and I spend a fair number of afternoons in the front yard because we can play with sidewalk chalk. It's pretty awesome.
oh yes, I need pictures...
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