When we get to our new house- first up- fix a few safety type issues.  Then get rid of the hideous wallpaper.  It’s actually not that bad, but it’s still bad.  Then we will be doing some work on the deck and tearing out ugly carpet in the master bedroom and the dining room.  There is beautiful hardwood floors underneath and we are hoping it is in good condition.

We may want to hire some College Pro Painters too because I’ve done the painting thing and I don’t like it!  Then we’ll settle in and enjoy our new home.

We spent all of last Saturday and Sunday looking at houses.  On Saturday we saw three houses we liked.  On Sunday we didn’t see any so we went back to two from Saturday we liked.  Then later we took my parents and showed them our top two choices.  Everyone agreed on one house so we called our agent and said we wanted to make an offer.  We went in first thing Monday morning to make an offer on our favorite house.  While we were making the offer the other agent called and said they were getting another offer too.  The other offer was better, so we lost out on that house. 

Our second choice had some bad things about it that I didn’t notice because I loved the neighborhood and the house so much.  But it had some major things that would need to be fixed.  Plus it was next to an elementary school and my mom pointed out how loud that would be with the kids outside.  Our third choice had very high taxes.

So we looked a little more.  On Wednesday night this log home that we have been dreaming about that was out of our price range came way down in price.  So we went to look at it, sure that this was the one.  It wasn’t.  There were major issues.

We’ve decided to go back and make another offer on the very first house we tried to get a month ago, it’s still available.  Maybe if we raise our offer a little the sellers will come down a little.  If not we’ll be looking again.  Eventually we will find the right house, I know that.  But right now I am soooo frustrated.

Once we find the perfect house I am going to take pictures of it and create a postcard to send out to all of our family and friends.  They’ll be able to see our new house and get our new address.  You can do just that at VistaPrint- customize your own postcards.  I think it’ll be a fun way to let everyone know where we are and what our new home looks like.

So instead I will take a kitchen that has enough room to move around in.  One with plenty of counter space- or room to put in some counter space.  Plenty of cabinets, or room to add more cabinets.  Then I can do a little renovating and a little shopping around to get the kitchen I want.  So as long as there is enough room, I’ll take it.

One place I want to do some shopping is at the Glasstilestore.com- they have a great selection of glass tiles that I could use to make the kitchen just exactly how I want it to be.  So, this weekend I am going to find the perfect house with a big kitchen and then make it my own.

One house had a beautifully redone kitchen with stainless steel appliances.  How fabulous would some stainless steel cooking-ware look in a kitchen like that?  Or what if the dining room had a fireplace with blomus stainless steel fireplace accessories?  Another thing that would really improve the curb appleal of your house would be a fantastic looking blomus stainless steel mailbox. 

We’re getting ready to head out of town again to do more searching- and I’m going to be looking at all of the details!

So I have been looking online at some mailboxes and I found some great choices at Mailboxixchange.  The one that I love is for sale at Mailboxixchange and I think the price is quite reasonable.  I think a cute mailbox like this one would really change the look of the a house.

One house in particular, I was really looking forward to looking at- it looked so nice in the pictures.  When we got there, and opened the door it smelled soooo musty that it gave me a headache.  George walked around the back of the house and it was covered in mold.  Nice.   Then as he walked back towards the front of the house a huge swarm of flies came up from the ground.  I think they need to come up with some fly solutions for this house.  I’m not sure if a fly light would help or not- something weird is going on.  So once they take care of the mold problem, the smell and then contact someone like ePest Solutions they might be able to sell the house.  Otherwise, no one is going to buy it.

I really wish we could build our own home.  If there was a Schumacher Homes in our area I would be looking them up.  We would be able to stay with my parents for a short time while waiting for our home to be built.  That way we would have the exact home we want.

We’re not sure if we want to go with Direct TV or not.  We have never used DirectTV so I don’t really have a firm opinion about it.  I know we are not happy with the few channels we get now, so we will want to make some changes.  There are a lot of DirectTV Options- it just depends on what is important to you.

What is your opinion?  Do you like DirectTV?  What do you use for your television entertainment?

Most of the homes I have seen need some new lighting.  I’ve seen some forecast lighting that I really like that I know would look good in any home that we might end up choosing.  Another choice that I really liked was the Sea Gull lighting- it’s just gorgeous.  A great place to find a wide variety of lighting seems to be Farrey’s.  Once we get into our new house I will definitely do some shopping there.