Woohoo! Yay The Rumpie Pumpie Residence!

:~)

(er... ok, that actually means something in English, I’ve just found out—but still: woohoo and yay :-) )

I’d happily live in a rumpy pumpie residence as long as it didn’t also contain benny hill and the two ronnies.

Congratulations. Hope you don’t have to do too much work to make it properly your home.

Damnit; I now have a vision of Mr and Mrs Rumpie Pumpkin moving in at high speed chased by a leering benny hill stuck in my head.

Don’t forget the tune.

I was trying.

help me to while away the hours until I leave here!!!

http://roomplanner.navigram.com/

:-)

Congratulations, rumpie! It’ll be chaos this weekend I’m sure, but having your first Christmas in your very own home has got to be really special.

thanks! oooh roomplanner!!!

Congrats Rumps. Most excellent news.

I am so going to playing with that room planner today!!

So .... tell us all about your new house, rumpie! How many bedrooms, what’s the kitchen like, new or old, does it need a lot of work doing to it, have you got a garden etc etc All that sort of stuff!

I love houses.

It’s a top floor flat in a three storey detached building with ‘woodland’ to the rear and a large expanse of park to the front. I’ve got two bedrooms and a dining kitchen—the kitchen needs no work at all—it’s fabby.

The attic is all ours, it’s floored. Mr Pumpkin says he’ll make it into a reading room for me with beanbags and soft lighting. (It’s just an excuse to get all of my books out of his sight but hey)

We have ‘land’ too—a large tract running into the woods at the back of the garden. The other residents tried to buy it from the former owner but it’s NOT ALLOWED.

God I’m so high right now!!!!

Oh, that sounds lovely :) Being on the top floor, you must have smashing views.

It’s great, it’s like being on the canopy of a rainforest—trees for miles!

(maybe not miles but...) and instead of whooping monkeys I get crows. But it’s still great!

Congratulations! Isn’t it the best feeling, owning your own hice?

Actually, come to think of it, I moved into mine own house exactly a year ago... today or yesterday? I could look it up on our database, I suppose.

Congrats Rumpie! Prepare for all of your time and money now being poured into the house. :) (actually it’s not a bad thing.)

housewarming?

I’ll have to have a series of small housewarmings, family first, then friends, then workmates. Some people have to be kept seperate...

We nipped up on my lunchbreak and the place looks so different from what we remembered.

It was good to wander about without an estate agent eavesdropping too.

Do you need to shell out lots of dosh on things like curtains? Or can you make do with what you already have/do without?

We’re gonna start from scratch CJ, we’ll buy everything from furniture to dishes in the January sales. He’s left very little at our request, and we’ve ditched our old scabby furniture already.

Camp chairs and airbed for a few weeks!

The spare room would make a lovely nursery come to think of it.

housewarming?

I think heating is a standard thing in most house, y’know.

wink wink

get a sewing machine and learn to use it by making some curtains.

that will come in handy when you fill the nursery.

We’ve been so used to living in one room that heats up if the oven is on.... I think we’re in for a shock when the gas/electricity bills start coming in.

I hope someones getting me gloves for Christmas.

Make curtains? That’s awfully domestic. Maybe Mr Pumpkin can take that up.

family first, then friends, then workmates, then people off of the internet

it’s handy rumpie! It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard for me to buy anything I know I can make myself.

I exchanged on the 13th. Wow, a whole year of homepwnership. Seems like it’s flown by.

And I still don’t even have bookshelves!

A friend of mine moved into a house which had huge almost-floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, and she couldn’t afford to buy any curtains to cover such a huge expanse of glass. She bought several metres of cotton muslin in a variety of beautiful jewelled colours from a fabric shop in the asian part of town—it was incredibly inexpensive, just a pound or two a metre—and she draped panels of that over curtain wires until she could save up for more substantial window coverings. It was so pretty. (and cheap).

Being able to whip up curtains and throws and stuff would be a great skill, perhaps my new years resolution should be ‘be less lazy’.

How long until it started feeling like home Kate?

Not until I painted the walls. A good 3 or 4 months or so.

The first month or so was WEIRD. Mainly because I had so little furniture! It was quite hard to get settled.

I’m still not entirely unpacked—in every rented accomodation I’ve ever had I unpacked within 2 days of getting there!

ours felt like home after we finished the floors. “see that stone down there? I did that! This is our house, bitch!” etc.

Stone floors! Do you live in a cathedral?

Or a barn, ha ha! ;-)

Many congratulations, Rumps, and virtual salt, bread and wine.

slate tiles. It’s a little castle-y.

Uh, Sam, looks like someone left their dirty undergarments on the floor again.

we were grouting! that’s a rag!

I really should take some pictures now that were all moved in. (and remodeling the kitchen)

i dunno where to put this so i’ll put it here in case sandboxers have advice:

house buying ppl, have you ever fallen in love with a house only to have the agent say “no way, i would argue argue argue against buying this”?

realtor’s pov is that because the house is on zoned industrial land, surrounded by a mixture of other houses and industry, it won’t appreciate as fast as strict residential neighborhoods. he also says we’d have a harder time selling it because far fewer buyers would be interested.

of all people, ilxors would get why it’d be cool to live in an industrial neighborhood. right? and even though it’s a long shot, i’ve gotta bet one of us has bought in what might be considered (to suburban acura driving real estate agents) an odd neighborhood. have you had to talk a real estate agent around to your point of view? have you had to explain “i’m living in it, that’s most important, investment potential is secondary”? did you switch agents or heed what s/he said? thx 4 advice.

I wouldn’t take a realtor’s advice about what was right for me—they are there to fill out all the forms correctly, not to be investment advisors imo. How much of a crystal ball to the future does a realtor’s license get you anyway? I’d get a different agent, if this one continues to be a high and mighty prophesying dickwad. Or see if you can swing it with just a real estate lawyer and no realtors if possible (if it’s listed with a realtor, you can’t get away from that though).

realtor’s pov is that because the house is on zoned industrial land, surrounded by a mixture of other houses and industry, it won’t appreciate as fast as strict residential neighborhoods. he also says we’d have a harder time selling it because far fewer buyers would be interested.

I also hate it when “experts” throw this kind of stuff at you as if it’s received wisdom. Back it up with actual, solidly researched facts and let ME decided if the rate of appreciation is a deciding factor. What does “harder time” mean? You’d have to have it on the market for 3 more months? Or what, exactly? Back it up, buster, or STFU.

heh, more like irritable :)

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hey jaq, your friend in georgetown, the one i’ve never met and whose name i can’t remember, does she live alone or w/ someone? (family security concerns is why i ask)

w/ someone now—but he works very late nights. She lived there alone for several years before he moved over from West Seattle. We’ve been down there wandering around late a few times—it feels hella safer than PSquare or south Seattle.

psquare scares me at night!

see also: id

id can be scary in daylight! Walking from bus stop/light rail to home in the winter dark gave me one or two heart-pounding moments, but the worst has been walking alone in the dark from 1st Ave to 3rd Ave past pergola/Occidental park :/

super creepy!

ps “high and mighty prophesying dickwad” is the greatest insult i think!

occidental park is sketchville usa

i want that firefighter statue to turn its hose on and wash down the drunken masses

“LINE UP”

hi from my new house.

Hi! is it THE ONE?

YEP!!! :)

OMG!!!! Hi neighbor!

yayyay<3<3<3

neighbours! that’s even better!

everyone come visit

tell us about your new house, lxy. i like this kind of stuff.

i want to visit!

i’m definitely going to visit though i don’t know when.

when i do i want to meet jaq.

what is going to happen about the door frame with our measurements on it.

!!! would be so terrific to meet estela! and harbl! and smoove!

ruby, it’s super cute, 1940, few neighbors, industrial part of the city so warehouses all around. quite cept for trucks during weekdays. trees, shed, v awesome basement, garage i can paint in, original everything but windows are new. wood floors.

i <3 it very much.

some stuff could be done but it’s not a fixer-upper.

had to fight for it, shed many tears, but now it’s mine and i’m gonna live there long time.

seriously, everyone come to my house!

harbl, estela, ruby: you come. jabba’s coming soon, he can witness. hope to get jaq over next week, she can tell you.

dunno what to do about the measurements though.

get some tracing paper and TRACE THOSE DAMN MEASUREMENTS ;)

can’t wait to visit! really want to do seattle soon soon soon

yes i would love to see this excellent sounding house!

i’ve never loved a house before. it’s a new thing. i used to not care what i sent down the sink or how much i marked up the walls

what was that soft lemon thing that you had? josh is determined to get some for his house, he says they’ll make the place more ‘homely.’

lol jabba! i tried to find it online, couldn’t. i found pix of other fruits that are obviously made by the same company, but no company nor where to purchase information. i’ll put my sis on the case; maybe the boutique where she bought it can help.