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I totally want this house.
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DannoMight
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there's no brick on it
j/k looks nice.
j/k looks nice.
I can afford the down payment but that's about it...
fistfullofsteel
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in nj that house will cost you a billion dollars 
fistfullofsteel
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big4life said:Yeah, but it would come with it's own chemical dump.
we wouldn't have it any other way. get cancer free of charge.
GoldenDelicious
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same. ever notice that you develop an accent when youre in them? (really)velvett said:
GoldenDelicious
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lol maybe you shouldvelvett said:Hmmm no, but maybe I should start talking to myself out loud and see....
...maybe im strange (ok fine...i am strange ) but when i go to old victorian sorts of houses (in the city i moved to for uni) and everything is so...formal...and....english...i turn into basil fawlty i can only imagine what id be like in some of those old southern kentucky fried chicken looking places you guys have over there
GoldenDelicious said:lol maybe you should
i can only imagine what id be like in some of those old southern kentucky fried chicken looking places you guys have over there
You're so cute - I really like how you think.
GoldenDelicious
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yeah, i know i am. get in line with the rest of the female population (and aap)velvett said:
(j/k thankyou, that was a lovely thing to say
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gotmilk
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big4life said:We have several neighborhoods of houses like that in my city. Unfortunately, they are buying the houses, tearing them down, and building huge generic brick mini mansions in their place.
That's Maine as a whole.....
Sadly, new construction cannot replicate the older homes.
http://www.swanagency.com/highlandrose/slideshow/images/exterior-011.jpg
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Megalomaniac
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velvett said:
I love it too. I think if I had it I might make some small changes but for the most part it is great. IMO a small house makes for a closer family, just don't make kids grow up in a one bathroom house like I did!
gotmilk
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Here's one you can have some fun with....click the IMAGES link near the top
http://www.swanagency.com/rockridge/about.html
http://www.swanagency.com/rockridge/about.html
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gotmilk said:
Some of that is just too much but what a amazing place. Great location and some of the woodwork is awesome. Thanks for the post.
big4life said:We have several neighborhoods of houses like that in my city. Unfortunately, they are buying the houses, tearing them down, and building huge generic brick mini mansions in their place.
Scrapers. They should be taken out and shot. The scrapers haven't invaded this neighborhood yet, but there's one just north of here where most of the houses are post-WWI (pre-WWI architecture is far more interesting, the between-the-wars period was too conservative), that has been hit hard by scraping.
Mr. dB said:
Oh, I simply LOVE that house. I love the stones - so homey, yet classic. So much nicer than brick. Brick can look nice, but it is so "common" and cookie cutter.
Does the kitty come with it?
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MasterBates
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wow it sucks ass
Velvett's pic looks like a Washington Township, Paramus NJ type house. Cute.
Low(er) taxes in Paramus btw.
Personally, I like 2 floors with second floor bedrooms, because I'm not a fan of me or any family member sleeping on the first floor and within 3 feet of a potential stranger lurking outside my window or whatever. That's the one main thing that kept me from a ranch style home. Ehhh.
Low(er) taxes in Paramus btw.
Personally, I like 2 floors with second floor bedrooms, because I'm not a fan of me or any family member sleeping on the first floor and within 3 feet of a potential stranger lurking outside my window or whatever. That's the one main thing that kept me from a ranch style home. Ehhh.
HumorMe said:Here is my house in the rare snow we get around here
I love your porch .... and the snow is gorgeous.
HumorMe
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Daisy_Girl said:I love your porch .... and the snow is gorgeous.
Thanks. I am replacing it real soon. The boards have become weathered and a little rotten on the ends where it is exposed to the rain.
There is approx. 500 square feet on the porch. Give you an idea of how big that front door is....it is 46 inches wide and 95 inches tall. The door is solid as lead and weighs about 4-500 lbs.
I put up a fullview glass storm door and ordered it through Lowe's and the guy didn't believe me when I told him how big the front door was. He made me go back home and remeasure it since it would be a custom door and nonreturnable.
jackangel
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HumorMe said:Nice houses. Looks like they sort of all look alike.
I need to post some of my house. Got to find the disk first.
Just those two. They're not identical plans, but it appears obvious that the same contractor built them at the same time, I'm guessing sometime between 1910 and 1915. The dark brown one is the nicer of the two, but it's hard to photograph because there's a lot of foliage.
My neighborhood was built between 1890 and WWI, so there are a lot of Arts & Crafts Era bungalows, many of which still have the period details intact. There are also a number of Victorian cottages, most of which were de-contented sometime in the 1920s-1950s when that sort of Victorian detail was considered dated. And then there's the ones that the aluminum siding contractors got their hands on. This is a neighborhood that stayed nice, it never went through the decline and decay that many old neighborhoods suffered, so there's never been any need for "urban renewal" here.
I wish I had bought into this neighborhood 15 years ago when it was cheap, now it's all trendy and expensive.
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Mr. dB said:
It's nice living on the right side of town for those houses not to get rundown. You live in the same type of neighborhood I live in now. Located here 18 years ago for $75,000.
Granted, we have done a ton of work on our house but the neighborhood experienced a transition from old people living here to younger families moving in. The neighborhood never really ran down but many houses needed TLC to bring them up.
It's funny though, there are two types of houses on our road. Coming from town, the large houses are on the right and the small houses are on the left. Big joke around town is, even though you live on our road...the more important question is...which side of the road?
The house next to me is for sale and the people are asking $385,000. Another house about five doors down is on the market for $425,000 and another one about ten houses from me, they are asking $865,000. I think I will hold on to mine for awhile longer.
HumorMe said:
Yeah, that's the story here too. The house next door to my apt building is occupied by an elderly couple who have been there for 40 years or more. If it ever goes on sale I'm gonna try to swoop down and grab it, but it needs work, and it was desecrated by aluminum siding sometime in the 1950s. But apart from that all it really needs is a new kitchen and bathrooms.
There's another old lady across the street, I was standing in her yard when I took that picture, her house is still painted that awful hospital green. She's gotta be over 90, I thought she looked near death when I moved here in 1990. So we have a mix of yuppies and the extreme elderly.
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