It's February 2007. What Does Your House Look Like?

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Home furnishings, furniture, painting, DIY, dream kitchens and bathrooms, etc. haves, wants, recently acquireds, and desperate dreams.

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― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I want an excuse to post this picture of the mural in my bedroom:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/391052982_700ecc4d9f_o.jpg

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot remember if I mentioned this on the Tiffany thread on the other board, but in the end, I bought the elephant lamp. It is gorgeous. And an Edwardian end table to put him on.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I love your mural kate.

I just went to look at a house that is SO CUTE! Eighteenth century (?) and probably very unsuitable for a small baby but I think I want to move in anyway...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

It's the one squashed in the middle here:

http://www.homesonview.co.uk/hov/PHILNEWH/lPNP0146401.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Omigod, that is the cutest house ever!

Come on, what do you mean not suitable? They had babies in the 18th Century and not all of them perished on gin.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/100/365750624_145123fbda.jpg?v=0

Inside our living room. Me mum in the front. heh.

Swanky no? I'm posh, I am.

hahahahahah

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Some friends of mine who live in a cottage of a similar age have just had a baby. They seem to do all right although the house did need a lot of work doing and there was a big rush to get it all done before the baby arrived. Might not be so easy to do major fixes in a small place with a baby there.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love that photo, Nath, it's like something out of Country Life. So elegant!

Plus, I wanna make a shirt out of your sofa and wear it.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

You're not fooling us again, Nath. We know that you and your Mam just take these pictures after the tours have moved to the next room.

Archel, I actually thought there were just two houses in that picture until I had a closer look.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/26111808_d7e99df4a8_m.jpg

Part of front house.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/26112523_cd0c93bb04_m.jpg

Staircase.

(Stolen from Ned's Flickr page. I hope he doesn't mind!)

I love our house so much. It's actually my parents house, but I hope to buy it from them one day. Maybe sooner than later: they live (permanently) in Japan anyway. It's actually a bit too big but I prefer that over a small house.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

God, my house is such a crapfest compared to everyone else's houses.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, you should see our bedroom and study. A trainwreck, really. I feel so ashamed when my dad was in our room the other day. My parents, especially my mum, has become even cleaner in Japan. It's just... WOW. I'm not clean myself, alas, but I have returned to my anal self: I love things to be in its place.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Trish, you should have seen the state of the place before I got all the books and crap off the floor.

Oh, Argos £70 CD racks, you are a thing of beauty!

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't mean in terms of cleanliness, I mean the house itself. It looks like this from the outside:

http://www1.myhome.ie/pictures/properties/9/7/2/289279/14343_9_pm.jpg

Boring, stupid, housing estate box.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am grumpy because my brother's house in Essex is so beautiful.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but what does it look like on the *inside*? You can make it your own little captain's lair inside if you like. (Not that I'm saying I did that oh no.)

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

You're not fooling us again, Nath. We know that you and your Mam just take these pictures after the tours have moved to the next room.

haha! indeed nice house Nath. I'm jealous that Ned has visited you there. :(

The front of our house followed by way too many other pictures of various states of disrepair and renovation. Last night I was thinking I should actually take pictures of our nice living room furniture and decorations but it will have to wait until the contents of the kitchen cabinets have homes again.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

You can make it your own little captain's lair inside if you like.

Well, I do have a lovely print of this on my wall:

http://www.artmarine.co.uk/catalogueimg/430631083040302181329.jpg

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

That is gorgeous! I really want to get a ship in a bottle to put in my display cabinet.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

sam, you have a blue cattle dog! so cute!

i love your slate. ive had thoughts of slating the entire house before. i like a cold, hard floor.

― sunny successor (katarina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

we have two blue cattle dogs! they are sweet but a mess.

The slate is fantastic. We put it in every room but the bathrooms. We're a bit worried that it's too dark/modern and might be a problem when we resale, but we like it.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

View from my kitchen window:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/viewfromkitchen.jpg

The house, from the front:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/home.jpg

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Servants quarters on the left there?

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Kids playroom :)

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Is that the Malvern Valley out the back?

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

CJ, your house is gorgeous! What C is it? The elevation must be marvellous. (Except in winter.)

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oxfordshire

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

(and thank you!)

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

no it's gorgeous. also i LOVE the paint colour in the master bedroom.

xposts blimey cj! now i'm *really* jealous...

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, CJ by C I meant Century rather than County, I should have been more specific! (Though that beautiful stone colour makes sense for Oxfordshire.)

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

It was originally a farmhouse + barn + outbuildings, early 1800s.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

CJ, lovely.

What I'd like to do with my house is get a kind of 50s atomic feel going. I have a couple of pieces already that fit with the theme--a g-plan coffee table and a 50s sewing stool/foot stool. I'm hoping to get more as time goes by.

Here is my living room (I hope this photo shows up), complete with dogs going "excuse me, wtf r u doin?"

http://lh5.google.com/image/trishyb/RdR0uqti3-I/AAAAAAAAAO8/sK56sm2msD8/DSC00007.JPG?imgmax=512

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey, what a gorgeous house! I'm VERY VERY jealous. Well, not so much, cause I don't think I could survive outside the city. :-)

I'm jealous that Ned has visited you there. :(

If ever you come to Belgium, you know where we can have our little knitty talk. :-)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to visit belgium. but with the thousands we're pouring into our kitchen I don't think travel is in the cards anytime soon. :(

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/391153863_e45e594aab.jpg?v=0

The back of mine from the garden. It was a wreck when I bought it 7 years ago and the garden totally overgrown.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

we have two blue cattle dogs! they are sweet but a mess.
The slate is fantastic. We put it in every room but the bathrooms. We're a bit worried that it's too dark/modern and might be a problem when we resale, but we like it.

i had a boyfriend who had a blue cattle dog named Riskum. That dog could catch and australian 5 cent piece (a little larger in diameter but the same thickness as a US dime) in his front teeth when thrown from a distance. Deaf as a post, though.

a friend's mom slated her entire house in a dark charchol, almost black, slate except for the living room where she used white shag carpeting. it sounds like a 70s nightmare but it actually worked beautifully. ive been in love with slate and shag ever since.

― sunny successor (katarina), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/391153860_25923d5ceb.jpg?v=0

And the garden from the house last summer...with daughter.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

lovely garden! (and daughter)

xpost - I would love to have a big shaggy rug in my sewing room but I fear it would just be a magnet for cat vom and dog poo.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Your garden is immaculate! Do you cut the lawn with manicure scissors?

My garden is plagued with mole hills, mostly. We've tried everything to get rid of them (including sitting up all night with a shotgun, a la Jasper Carrot sketch) but they just keep coming back.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/391153861_b6bd989f55.jpg?v=0

couldn't resist, sorry. If you have cute cats flaunt 'em.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

That garden is gorgeous, Dr. C - I was wondering what you grew on the trellis I could see in the background. Climbing roses! I'm jealous of people with proper gardens.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

and lavender! you have lavender! I love all those cottage garden plants.

That's such a perfect picture - cute daughter, cute cat, pretty garden, sunny day.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! I recently bought a house... here's what it looked like in August when I first took posession:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/ilikemyvespa/Recent007.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/ilikemyvespa/Recent067.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

x-post : no moles in our part of London, CJ. But lots of SLUGS! LOTS!

I don't take any credit for the garden - it's a mrs dr.c thing really. I am regularly contracted in to did things up, cut things down and build things etc, but it's brawn not brains work that I do.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

but i wanted to jazz it all up inside, so now it looks like this :(

my "kitchen"
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/ilikemyvespa/RenosOct102006_005.jpg

my "living room"
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/ilikemyvespa/RenosOct102006_004.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

i love your house rob!

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/305868013_81565476d7.jpg?v=0

This is mine.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think I know that house, Matt. You must live very near my ex boyfriend's mum's house, I think, if it is the house I think.

― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Behind the concert halls, about side streets down a big wide road?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 February 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

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there are weird white balls on the agave, no visible bugs and the balls easily are wiped off. We covered it and the lime tree both with blankets when they were freezes but don't know if that helped. The agave seems to be leaning over and the lime tree is going yellow. :(

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh! Maybe it's mealybugs. Does the agave look like this?

http://www.cactus-art.biz/note-book/Dictionary/Dictionary_M/mealybug_agave.jpg

http://www.cactus-art.biz/note-book/Dictionary/Dictionary_M/dictionary_mealy_bugs.htm

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ricecrc.org/reader/?LO=00000001a6b7c8d90000000b0000000b00000f74412d575c000000000001000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000&type=image/jpeg

Iron deficiency?
Iron (Fe)

The plant needs iron to produce chlorophyll. Iron deficiency causes a distinct pattern in the leaf caused by a loss of chlorophyll; only the main veins stay green. Iron does not move easily within the plant, so young leaves are the worst affected, showing the symptoms, while older leaves may remain green.

Leaves showing the effects of iron deficiency

Iron deficiency is sometimes called ‘lime-induced chlorosis’, as it is worse in calcareous (calcium rich) soils with a high pH. This makes iron unavailable. The problem is accentuated where free lime concretions are found near the surface of the soil. A high water table (which causes a low soil-oxygen supply to the roots) or a low soil temperature can further aggravate the problem.

Effective control measures include careful irrigation (avoid overwatering) and the selection of tolerant rootstocks. Do not plant Poncirus trifoliata rootstocks in problem soils, as this variety is more sensitive to iron deficiency than sweet orange, rough lemon or Troyer citrange. Cleopatra mandarin is one of the most tolerant rootstocks if there are no drainage problems. Lemons are more prone to chlorosis than oranges and grapefruit.

Foliar sprays of iron sulphate or iron chelate are ineffective. If a few trees are affected, try iron chelate applied to the soil under the trees; however, this treatment is uneconomic for a large block—management is the only option here.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

blargh! maybe yes the the mealy bugs. will have to go home and check closely did see ants around. :(

the lime tree might have been overwatered. I was worried more that it froze. we only ever got one lime off it but it is still young.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't write all that! It's from this:
http://www.ricecrc.org/reader/citrus/h2311.htm
More citrus info:
http://www.marioncountyfl.org/AC631/mastergardener/AG_mgspringfaqc.htm

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

One of those pages says that citrus can take a brief freeze.
I would give it a hard pruning, so the plant doesn't have to expend so much energy trying to pump the sap out to all those sickly leaves. Stimulate some fresh growth.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I posted this once back on real ILX but what the hell:

http://www.pvdnetwork.com/116/photo/20428761-1.jpg

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

That pic is actually about 2 years old now, I wouldn't have noticed except the gingko tree (left) reaches higher than the chimney now.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

my apartment is nothing great from the outside. here are pics of the inside from its glory days (i.e. the day we moved in 2 years ago):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/apartment1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/apartment5.jpg

― maunders (maunders), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

note to self: clean your room, it looked great on day 1

― maunders (maunders), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

nklshs lives inside a pizza hut.

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

nice walls mandee, :)

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

beth has the bestest house evah! (sorry everyoen else, she just does.)

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you! I do love my little house. It's an 1840 Greek Revival. My mother's house is a bigger version. There are a lot of them here—they were kits. The first modular houses! I'll have to take some pictures when the front garden's doing its thing.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amny.com/media/photo/2006-02/21977373.jpg

― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, dude! The whole thing?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

we don't have houses where i come from

― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

You all have such nice/huge homes and you all OWN! WTF. Are none of the renters reprazenting? How do you all afford mortgages :( I cant even get it together to get a deposit for a homeloan and I have a decent job and am in my 30s. Not fair.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I put up a picture of my parents' house! I rent, I have two housemates, it's the nicest place I've lived so far but it's hardly anything to take photos of.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

rent 4 lief

― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/000_1843.jpg

if you can see past the beautiful vespa, that is my house. the 3 houses to the left of us are shotgun houses. we are renters.

― AiLien (AMD), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

that was awhile ago, apologeez. i will put update one up soon!

― AiLien (AMD), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

i love beth's house SO MUCH
it is the perfect size!
it makes me want to build one like it for my mom, and then one for me. i think that should happen, one day. (they will turn out a little less new england and a little more west coast though, can't be helped)

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

In 18 hours we will be at a Zoning Board of Appeals meeting to see if our town will allow us to knock down our house and build a new one.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

This is our house 2 years ago
http://www.aardvarktranslations.com/images/feb2005%20056.jpg

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.aardvarktranslations.com/images/july06%20001.jpg
The yard last summer. Seaweed on the garden beds.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, but where do you all live again?

― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

We live on martha's vineyard island, about 75 miles from Boston.
We get good windstorms here

http://www.aardvarktranslations.com/images/feb2005%20020.jpg

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

I totally rent, Trayce. And will be for the forseeable future by the looks of it...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

You all have such nice/huge homes and you all OWN! WTF.

Well, I don't do anything, rent nor own, We just live in my parents' house. But I'm trying to find a way to buy the house from them. As they live in Japan, and intend to stay there even when they retire, I think the bestest plan would be for me to buy the house. I mean, it doesnt really serve them any purpose. I also love the house so much. I'd cry me a river if I had to move. It's a perfect location and, even though it doesn't feel that way, it's quite big. I could easily live in a smaller house, but, hey, if you get the chance to live in a big house, why not? It'll be great with two kids.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Beth and Maria D, both of your houses are kind of exactly how I would have imagined them.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

So you live in the house for free then? If they're not planning on moving back any time soon, I wouldn't be in any rush to buy it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be great with two kids.

Congratz?

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

michael, does your wife sew much?

Not as much as she used to (or wants to) - I don't need to explain why...

(i'm jealous of your house btw, so nicely decorated!)

Thanks! Truth is, there are five times as many things still to be hung on the walls and, a year after moving in, 30-40 boxes (of the 200 we moved with) are still to be unpacked. I was careful to only show the outside and the living/dining area because upstairs is in abject chaos. We're slowly getting the nursery together, so Ava continues to sleep in what should be the office, walled in by boxes. There is no time...

How do you all afford mortgages :( I cant even get it together to get a deposit for a homeloan and I have a decent job and am in my 30s. Not fair.

Deposit on old flat came from savings (lucky enough to ride the IT boom in the mid-'90s and earn more than I could spend), deposit on this house came from equity in old flat. But now, having had to start from scratch at 34 when my old career went down the pan and with Pam having not had a proper income since starting her first spell of maternity leave in late '04, we're actually not affording our mortgage any more. Hard times...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Trayce, we couldn't have owned here without a leg-up from family. Our house is an old home of my husband's parents. The 3 kids assumed the mortgage a while ago, and subdivided into two lots. One sib built a house on the other lot, and we're gradually buying out the third, who doesn't live on the island. The initial costs were very low to my inlaws because the property abuts a Girl Scout camp. They paid only $1000 in 1957. Most of the cost was incurred in moving the house here (originally it was right next door to MY family's house, in the next town over, but no one could find water on that land). The Girl Scouts are not terrible neighbors—I really don't understand why that depreciated the property so radically.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/07/13/house_funny1_wideweb__430x305.jpg

― nklshs (nklshs), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

wife cashed in a cert of deposit for $10000 to buy our condo, made $75,000 profit when we sold condo to use as downpayment on a house. the mortgage is actually cheaper than renting around here.

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Winter
http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/December-Snow1.jpg

Summer
http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/Summer-Front.jpg

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

A cutie house—with a river birch!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

we got zoning approval. we are free to demolish. er, after 20 days and no public outcry.

― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a sledgehammer and some wine!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, sledgehammers are F!U!N! I got to take apart some concrete post-footings a couple of years back.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

i missed the whole zoning board meeting! the baby wouldn't stay quiet, so i had to go in another room with him. i missed maria's heartfelt plea to the jury.

― scott seward (121212), Thursday, 22 February 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Turns out they don't really care about who you are, what you do for a living, who your grandparents are, how much you want to stay and live in this place and hand it down to your kids. All they care about are the RULES. But since we'll be siting a house a little differently and making it "less non-conforming" (cuz the old house was here before the rules and the new house will comply with setbacks better), we're okay.

― Maria :D (Maria :D), Thursday, 22 February 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

My parents bought the house EXTREMELY cheap: now we could only afford a one bedroom rundown house as opposed to the 4 bedroom house we now pay off.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 22 February 2007 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ask your parents for a pay rise!

― Bob Six (Bob Six), Thursday, 22 February 2007 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, I mean for the amount they bought the house, we could only get a rundown one bedroom house. I'm hoping to buy the house from them in the future.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 22 February 2007 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.qbman.co.uk/i/propimgs/SOUTHFPK_00.jpg

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 22 February 2007 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

I know where that is!

― C J (C J), Thursday, 22 February 2007 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

good! stop by for coffee one day!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 22 February 2007 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

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