More House pictures!

[plutherus]

Yay!

I am very excited, being an actual home owner, which I never thought I would.

My roommate pointed out that perhaps the heating ducts were not the part of the house that most people would be interested in seeing. So, here's the house, from the street:




A closer view of the front entry:


And, from the back yard:
Looking left:


And right:


I also took a nice .avi walkthrough of the house, but it's too big for youtube, so will have until either I obtain some decent video editing software so I can make it smaller, or until youtube can handle clips over 300MB in size.

Comments

[colombenoire.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I like your curved brick front porch steps. Is there a second story? I can see a little window peeking out on top in the back view.

I was perhaps the one who was interested in the pictures of the heating ducts as well as pictures of the whole thing! You're brave to go down in the crawl space. I just bought a house and am also going to have to get in there underneath it. Too bad I cannot send the cats down in there to do the work!

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

The best part of those bricks is that they're not bricks at all...they painted the concrete to look like bricks sometime around 1950. ^_^

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Is there a second story?

Yep. Well, sort of. There's a small room upstairs that holds the hot water heater and the furnace. It's unfinished walls and rough floors, but with a bit of work - putting in walls, and building cabinets around the equipment, it can be turned into a nice little room, appropriate for a small bedroom or a study.

Matt's also talked about eventually actually raising the whole roof-line, and building out the dormers a bit, which could put up to two bedrooms and a second-story patio up there.

I just bought a house and am also going to have to get in there underneath it. Too bad I cannot send the cats down in there to do the work!

Heh. Of course, in our case, the cats were the reason we had to go down there in the first place :)

If you do have to do much work down there, I'd highly recommend cordless power tools, and at least one, possibly two, children to bring things in and out of there.

Of course, I'd also recommend fixing the gutters first so they don't dump all the rain water directly into the access way, creating an ever-increasing mud puddle that you have two constantly crawl through to get any work done :)

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

But you can get in and out of said crawl space. THAT is awesome!!!!

[whpingboy.livejournal.com]

You need to show the rest of the back yard, and some of the inside, so I can show C what it looks like.

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that was the aforementioned .avi that I can't post to youtube yet.

I plan on taking lots of before/during/after pictures of the improvements, though.

I'll try to get some more/better still shots of the interior and back yard next time I'm out there.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_heretic/]

Congratsi Pat!

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
Today, we framed in the wall for my bedroom. Tomorrow, the sheetrock.

Are you still in Eugene? We have got to get together some time! Maybe coffee some time this week?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_heretic/]

Still in Eugene. We're down in the Friendly Street area. Coffee or something in the afternoon sounds cool. Both of us are usualy home by 6:30.

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Cool!
Unfortunately, all my evenings right now are taken up with house moving/repair/cleaning, and stuff, and will be for the next couple of weeks...

If you're free at all during the day, let me know, or you can come by the new house at some point, or we'll hook up next month some time :)

Not today, though, cuz I'm sick, and gonna go back to sleep now.