Archives: March 2006
Thu Mar 16, 2006
Mar 16, 06 | 1:58 pm | 
So about this house.
Tomorrow at 9:30AM we sign papers, present our settlement check and the house is ours. Hooray! So what exactly are we getting? Well, it's a 3 bedroom colonial home located in a quiet and wooded neighborhood in Belchertown. The house has a little over and acre of property and is protected on all sides by trees. Behind the house is acres and acres of forest. The neighborhood lives up to it's name: Forest Road. Despite all these woods, our yard get plenty of sun for gardening.
The house was built in 1978 and has been completely updated. In the last two years it has received a new roof, meticulous vinyl siding, a new septic tank, and a new state of the art radiant floor heating system. The previous owners spent a lot of money on this place which means we don't have to worry about all those things. We can just move in. The house also have an enormous deck off the back and an equally enormous swimming pool.
Inside the house we have a large family room with cathedral ceiling, exposed beams, paddle fan and sky lights. This room was certainly a selling point for me. In addition to this family room, we also have a second family room (parlor?) with dark hardwood floors, fireplace and french doors opening off to the deck. There's a smallish dining room and a kitchen which is in deperate need of an Ikea makeover (already in planning as I type!). Although the previous owner purchased all new quality stainless steel appliances.
Upstairs are the three bedrooms and full bathroom. The master bedroom will be used as my office. One of my first project this weekend will be removing the office carpeting and installing laminate wood flooring.
So that's pretty much it. I took some photos a few weeks ago during the home inspection and posted them online for family to see. So I guess I will make them public now:
http://www.sheldonfinlay.com/content/photography/simpleviewer/
Tomorrow is our closing and kicks off our long anticipated moving in. Oh happy day!
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Tue Mar 14, 2006
Convention photos sneak peek
I am sure that anyone present this weekend would back me up in saying that the 2006 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention was freaking awesome. The singing, the food, the friends; it was all perfect. But alas it is past and I am left with ever so slight postpartum depression. Why do those two days go by so quickly?
I know people will be hounding me for photos and I am afraid with my pending house closing this Friday and subsequent move, it could be a couple weeks before I process all the photos (I shoot in manual mode using RAW so I basically have to develop each photo individually using PhotoShop. What fun!). So to appease the masses here's a small sampling of 375 photos I took this past weekend.
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