My New House!!

Ok, so forgive me if I gush in this post (no, not that kind of gushing... though I can do that too so ya never know when it might come up on here later) but I JUST GOT THE HOUSE!

The house I'm speaking of is, as most readers of my blog will know, the one we found when house hunting in Florida about a month ago. We expected a longer wait for a final word but just yesterday we got the word that it's ours if we want it!! The bank countered our offer so it's a little more than we wanted to spend but still an absolutely incredible deal!

When built the value of the house was $249,000 (yup, not a typo) and though we'll have to get a new appraisal we've been told it has increased in value. Now I'm not going to say here what we're paying, but it's not even near that number

So a little about the house... it's only 4 years old, about 1800 sq feet (2300 sq ft with garage, about 11000 sq feet full lot size), full tile flooring (NO carpet, yay!) 4 bedroom, 2 full bath, HUGE kitchen, HUGE living room, sun/family room, laundry room and a 2 car garage!

It includes a full central air and heat, washer & dryer, oven, range hood and dishwasher (all just a few years old). No fridge but that's ok cause we have our eye on a real beauty we promised to buy when we got a house.

The kitchen really is huge with tons of counter space, many cupboards, a pantry and a bunch of outlets. The outside is a bar style that just needs some cool stools.

The master bath has a two sink counter, big mirror, a giant garden bath (fits 3 or 4 ppl) and seperate glass box shower (also fits 3-4 ppl)!

So a few things we plan on doing - the master bedroom and walk in closet had carpet that's been pulled out so were going to install some very cool bamboo flooring, we're not too fond of the colors in the various rooms so there'll be some repainting and of course plenty of yardwork including reseeding the lawn, putting up a fence and planting some palm, orange and lemon trees.

The pics below are just some of the shots we took when touring it, it needs some clean up and maybe a little work here and there but it's basically a brand new house! Again, sorry for gushing but thanks for allowing me to share a little of my life with you!