Guess what we are????

[sdmay3]

WE ARE HOMEOWNERS!!!!!!!!! http://homepics.realtor.com/Image1/http/TroyOH/Listings/Large/061/219754_101.JPG
Property Description
This two story home built in 1880 has 4 bedroom(s), 2 full bath(s), 1 half bath(s) and is approximately 2866 sq. ft. This home has 10 rooms and a basement. Rooms include a family room, study, extra room. Other features include 3 or more fireplaces, ceiling fan(s), window treatments. This home has a deck, porch. The lot is fenced.

[Tasha405]

Congrats! Looks and sounds great!:)

[chort1313]

congrats!!! what a beautiful home!

[Widgetsx3]

Wow! Way cool house! I love old houses...not too many in Vegas....shoot this town is barely 100 as it is.....

[odyssey]

congrats to you!

[TheLtsLady]

It sounds great!:)

[jaybird]

Great news. That is an awesome home!

[Tigerseye0420]

looks beautiful! Congrats!!

[flute]

congrats! Looks & sounds great :D

[Jolie Rouge]

WOW

It looks and sounds wonderful -- congrats !

[kelblend]

Congrats!!! I keep seeing the 4 bdrms (heehee i have 3 kids and only 3 bdrms lol). Way to go and it's really pretty.:D :) :D

[jadegentle]

sdmay3, where in Ohio are you? If you're close enough to me, I'll be right over, lol. I live in Defiance, near Toledo! Love that house, want one like it!

[Kyla Kym]

Originally posted by sdmay3
WE ARE HOMEOWNERS!!!!!!!!! http://homepics.realtor.com/Image1/http/TroyOH/Listings/Large/061/219754_101.JPG
Property Description
This two story home built in 1880 has 4 bedroom(s), 2 full bath(s), 1 half bath(s) and is approximately 2866 sq. ft. This home has 10 rooms and a basement. Rooms include a family room, study, extra room. Other features include 3 or more fireplaces, ceiling fan(s), window treatments. This home has a deck, porch. The lot is fenced.
I love this house!!! I've always wanted a home like this. Please tell us the history behind the house....I think that really adds to the charm. How is the inside of it set up? Modern or has it been kept in it's original form? I think it would be so awesome to be able to decorate one during the era it was built. :)

[janelle]

When I married my hubby he had a house built in 1890. We lived in midtown and people would buy the old homes and update them but try to still keep the charm of an old home. They would update the bathrooms and kitchen. Make them larger and with all the up to date appliances.

Old homes have small bedrooms and closets. People didn't have many clothes back then. It had one bedroom turned into a bathroom when they got indoor plumbing. Made for a small room on the side for a storage room. I put my sewing machine in there.

Our house had a cellar though instead of a basement. If you ever work on the house save the flat nails you find. They look unusual. Be sure to save all the beautiful woodwork that old homes have if you work on it.

[sdmay3]

The exterior is brick with a chipped paint look to it. I don't know what you would call that. It's very pretty if you like that look. The first thing my dad said when he saw the house was that it was nice but it needed to be painted. I could not get him to understand that the house was supposed to look this way. One of the bathrooms is still original and there is some of the original woodwork. Because of the age of the house we can have it registered as a historical home which would qualify us for grants to work on it. What sold us on this house is it's size and its age. We have 4 children and we are so cramped in the place we are renting. The living room in the house we bought is bigger than our living room and kitchen combined where we are at now. Our bedroom is twice the size of what we are used to. Our closet is so big that we are going to use it as a bedroom for our 20 month old litle boy. The second upstairs bathroom and the half bath are newer. In one of the bedrooms they added a sink and a mirror.(one of the former owners had several daughters). It is going to be a mess to heat it. We have 2 furnaces and 2 central air units. The kitchen is kind of smaller than I'd like but hey it's got a dishwasher so who cares. The laundry room goes all the way across the back of the house. One end of it has nothing but built in cupboards. The yard has a small wrought iron fence. For the age of the house it is in very good condition. The only thing we have to do is clean the walls (they were VERY heavy smokers) and the carpets. Since we got money back at closing I am now in search of someone to clean the walls for us!!!

[Dolly<3]

Congratulations!!! I hope you love, love, LOVE it forever. :)

[Kyla Kym]

I would have never guessed that was a brick home. I'm like your dad, I thought the paint was needing redone ;) I bet they where trying to make it look like a wood frame home. Some people don't like the looks of brick. I for one don't. I think they look cold and uninviting. Someone was very talented to come up with a idea like that. :)

The first thing I would do is find out the history behind the house. Can you imagine the family that must have built it? Back in the 1800's only the very rich could have afforded something as nice as that. Maybe someone famous built it. :D

Most of the old timey houses like that had a very tiny kitchen because they usually had a kitchen separate from the rest of the house. I guess because they where afraid of fires, and also it would heat up the house to much during the summer. Is there a old house out back that was used as a cook house?

Something else that would be awesome is if you could find the original house plans at the court house for the home. Allot of the old southern homes would register what I would call the blue prints for the home. And allot of the old houses will have secret rooms that you might not know that is there. Someone back then that was wealthy enough to build a home of that size probably had things they wanted hidden away from robbers.

Ok my imagination is running wild. LOL
I would love to be in your shoes right now with a new home like that. ;)

[shelanskey]

Awesome!!! Someday I want to own a big beautiful Victorian home, furnished in that time period! Congrats on the new house!