We looked at one house yesterday that we really couldn't afford, but I had fallen in love with it a couple of weeks ago, and when I saw the open house I wanted to see if it were as beautiful on the inside as the outside. When we drove up to the house, I told Chris I didn't want to go in because we couldn't afford it ($470K), but he talked me into going in anyway. It was quite nicely "done", with Williamsburg style cabinets and hardwood plank floors, but we would have had to sell all our furniture (Mission style) and start all over. So even if we could afford the house (we "could" but then all our money would go to the house note) I didn't want it. Walk-in his'n'her closets are nice, and so is a separate spa room with an exterior door to the deck and the in-ground pool. But if I had those bucks, I'd build an indoor pool, instead, so I could swim year-round.
There are almost no Victorians in the neighborhoods we are looking at. I think they pretty much got built up in the 1960's when the federal government got built-up for the Vietnam war and the Great Society. I have passed up the few Victorians I have seen for sale because they are all on major highways, which were just country roads when they were built. My old boyfriend in New Orleans lives in a very nice Victorian, but it's got termites. |
