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Bart and I may have finally found a house today. We have been looking for months at the same type of Baltimore rowhome over and over and becoming increasingly disappointed. We had found a house that we LOVED right at the beginning of our search, but we didn't get it and we never were sure why. We offered more than the asking price. *sigh*
This one is in a nice neighborhood and is priced right. The catch is that it needs a lot of work. The good part is that it needs a lot of work. In so many places we have seen, other people have "renovated" or "updated" the house into oblivion. Either they did a crap job or they did an amazing job, but are asking way too much for the neighborhood. And I have decided that there is not a designer in Baltimore capable of laying out a useful kitchen. The stove should not be shoved into the corner. Just no.
It was built in the fourties and hasn't been updated since then, so you see, there are lovely hardwood floors underneath that dusty carpet. They don't even need to be refinished because they haven't seen the light of day in years. It has an oil radiator that will have to go, but probably not until after the winter...anybody out there have an oil radiator? How do they work? I have never seen one in action. It needs all new everything, but we can totally afford to do it because the asking price is so low and we are going to offer even less than they are asking, I think. Wish us luck! I will let you all know if we get it :)
This one is in a nice neighborhood and is priced right. The catch is that it needs a lot of work. The good part is that it needs a lot of work. In so many places we have seen, other people have "renovated" or "updated" the house into oblivion. Either they did a crap job or they did an amazing job, but are asking way too much for the neighborhood. And I have decided that there is not a designer in Baltimore capable of laying out a useful kitchen. The stove should not be shoved into the corner. Just no.
It was built in the fourties and hasn't been updated since then, so you see, there are lovely hardwood floors underneath that dusty carpet. They don't even need to be refinished because they haven't seen the light of day in years. It has an oil radiator that will have to go, but probably not until after the winter...anybody out there have an oil radiator? How do they work? I have never seen one in action. It needs all new everything, but we can totally afford to do it because the asking price is so low and we are going to offer even less than they are asking, I think. Wish us luck! I will let you all know if we get it :)