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calibr8te

Wow there are so many beautiful homes up in here! My house has zero curb appeal. It is a green tower, four storey town home. On the inside it has so much charm. We bought it three years ago and have renovated the bathrooms and kitchen. Did the master last spring/summer. It is tiny: 1200 square feet but location was a huge deal for us. We have zero lot space because we are right in the heart of the city. Our neighbours are thankfully amazing, otherwise it would feel like apartment living they are so close to us. Prices are stupid high in this city too as are property taxes so even if we move to a bigger house, we would spend the same amount of money. I do love just walking out my front door to do things and am willing to stay here for that reason alone (until I am ready to have another baby that is). It's a 3 bd 2 bath.

stephl3055

TXswissmiss said:

steph 13055 said:

PixiesDust said:

steph 13055 -- where do you live or what do you do?  Your house is huge?

Sorry, I missed this earlier.  We live in the burbs north of Dallas.  The house is about 4500 square feet.  So yeah, it's a good size.  Like I said, probably more than what we need.  We don't have basements here, though.  

Our jobs aren't spectacular or anything, but we make decent money.  My mom paid for college, so I have no school loans.  DH has about $3k left on his, so that is the main reason why we can afford it.  We live very frugally otherwise.  We aren't big on vacations or getting away, so our house really is where we spend all of our time.

@steph13055 I was almost going to venture out and say north dallas area!!!! It totally reminds me of Allen/McKinney/smaller towns area!

Frisco, so very close!  There is something about the way the houses look in the northern suburbs.  I'm not sure what it is.  Maybe because they all really look the same?  

ashleymarie512

We just bought a 3br/2.5ba, 1800 sq ft two story. It has a huge master bedroom, his/hers closets, but not a big master bath. Two large extra bedrooms upstairs and a big second full bath, lo's bathroom. The laundry is upstairs, which I love. Main level is open concept with tile floors in bathrooms and kitchen. Large backyard with a fence and a 3-car garage, which is a huge bonus. We knew we'd need a shed or 3-car, but didn't think we could find our wish list AND a 3-car within our price range, but we did! We're still making it ours and need to paint and will eventually replace appliances and countertops, and will finish basement one day and add bed/bath, but for now the extra space is amazing (just moved from a 2br 800 sq ft ranch).

germanpickle

So I just looked up what some of these houses are in square meter. Hoooooly shite - some of you have massive houses. I consider ours quite big for our family at 140m - but that's "only" 1500 feet. Is that about right @CatieG‌ ?

I don't want to keep our place clean; can't imagine double the size!

slh6363

We are actually in between houses. Our first house we bought 4 years ago before we were married. Very cute but only 1000 sq ft cape cod style. I loved it at first but we quickly outgrew it. We just bought a 4 bedroom 3.5 bath colonial with fi ished basement and good sized yard for kids and dogs. 2400 sq ft and we consider this our "forever" home...until retirement at least. Trust me when I say I never want to move again for a very very long time!

SweetCFly

Our home- 1960s colonial. We bought it from the original owners who added 2 additions (one being a major kitchen reno which is what made us love the house so much) and converted it from 4 smaller scale bedrooms to 3 bedrooms by knocking down a wall and making a giant master bedroom, which in some ways I like and some ways I think we just have a lot of wasted space. Our house is the only one like it in the neighborhood due to all the additions. The rest when we moved in was pretty bare-bones, walls were all the old yellowed-over white so we could make it our own. We have done a lot of work to it in the last 3 years in the way of painting every room and ceiling except the 1st floor half bath and the kitchen, refinishing all the hardwoods (thru out except tile in entryway and kitchen), installing attic insulation and fencing in the back yard. This spring/summer we are hoping to work on updating the landscaping out front. Eventually we will re-do the upstairs baths which are still 1960s yellow and blue tile.

Eta x2 to add pic- I have awful techie/bump skillz sometimes so please excuse!

Amjoy25

carriet2018 said:

1960s New England Fixer upper! it is our forever home, we are on over an acre of flat land in an ideal town/neighborhood so it is something we can grow into...however its just getting the funds to fix up. It is 4 bed/2.5 bath 1900 sq ft partially finished basement. I overall love it, would just really like to redo our kitchen. I posted one of our renovated rooms before/after in another thread but here is probably our biggest transformation room. one day I want to turn that slider into French doors but that is like item #678 on the to-do list (sorry I didn't take the pics from the same angle)

I wanna go there.


BTW I clicked on this thread, and thought I had clicked FFFC, so I was like, "wtf is everyone posting their homes in FFFC for?" #youredrunkamjoy