What kind of house do you live in?

I need to lighten up a bit after all the nasty news today soooooooo.
What is your primary abode like?

Built in the 20s.

I am guessing Detroit. Am I wrong? So many great homes there.

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My building used to be a motel, with 8 units.

Now it's a four-unit apartment.

On edit: Here's my building, my door is the second door from the right.

I love those! Any Craftsman is great, but the ones in CA just seem to be nicer. :D

Not sure why. Mine was built in the 20's or 30's. It's cute :)

it's so cute!

We're so excited. :bounce:

I wish you the very best!! :toast:

Does a double wide manufactured home count as a 'ranch'? That's how I voted...

You can take the girl out of the trailer, but you can't take the trailer out of the girl...;)

on the second floor.

One of those modified ones with a master bedroom off the rear.

It was built in the 30s, and had indoor plumbing, bathrooms, and a drinking fountain added in shortly after WWII. They stopped using it when the Elementary School Was built in Coleman (the town 4 miles away from me.) in the mid-60s. We still have the original drinking fountain (and the urinial in in one of the bathrooms) connected up, and it still works!

EDIT: Got the date of construction wrong

It's all I could afford in this wintry economic climate.

Not sure where that fits...a decent-size main level, with LR/DR/Kit and a small BR and 1/2 bath, and a smaller upper level with two bedrooms and a bathroom.

It was built in the 1880s.

an old house once. LOL
I used to live in an old colonial built in the 1700's. Loved the character but to do any work in it was a nightmare. There wasn't a straight wall or flat floor anywhere and the wiring was like a history of electrical house wiring. Anyway I miss the place. There is only so much character in a cape cod.

The electrical is all updated (we spend $500 taking out some really scary wiring when we bought the house) -- we could probably use more circuits, but what we have now is all functional and up to code. The walls are relatively plumb -- but the floors are screwy.

The Professor

But it's on 4 acres and I grow dandelions and wild Himalayan black-berries

40's wood frame home. It was originally a 3/1 but they converted half of the single garage into an indoor laundry room and another bathroom.
The original bathroom doesn't have an electric plug or shower (just a tub with no plumbing for shower). It does have the built in wall gas heater which gives it a nice cozy feeling when I decide to take a soaky bath in the winter.

I would love to have seen the house back when it was new since I'd like to see how they handled the washer/dryer being in the kitchen and where they placed a dining room table. There's no room in the kitchen for a dishwasher so I handwash all my dishes. There's no pantry so I've bought heavy duty chrome roll around shelves.

The closets are interesting too since they have hand-stained shutter type doors which match the molding around all of the windows.

I rent the house and the house has been a rental for the last 15 years or so. I'm acquainted with the last tenants and I find their choice of paint for different rooms weird. The room I've turned into my study has a steel gray enamel base paint with black, white and maroon heavily speckled over it. The original bathroom is enamel forest green and the newer bathroom is what I call mother goose blue as is the kitchen. The master bedroom actually isn't too bad since it's mauve and teal (not that I'd choose those colors). The one that takes the cake though is the guest bedroom. It's done in flat BankOne blue. There's no other way I can describe the color blue it is other than BankOne blue.

I've gotten used to all of its quirks though and have lived here 2.5 years.

More than you wanted to know, right? :)

my house was one of the first "stage coach stations" west of the Fort Stanwix Treaty line, and was built in the 1790s. The downstairs is open, with a central chimney with three fire places. There are a total of 16 rooms, which is nice when you have four children. Parts of the old orchards still remain. 50-odd years ago, a lady living here planted flower gardens that surround the lawn in a "U" shape, over a 2 acre area. I enjoy being a recluse, as our driveway is part of an old turnpike. My children and I have quite a collection of artifacts from around the property.

Years ago I rented a farmhouse on 120 acres. It was great. The property owner rented out the land to local farmers and I had the house. It was nice to go outside, ride a dirtbike I had, hang with the horses at the barn or go bowhunting on a whim. Enjoy it and good luck.

even tho' this packing/moving stuff is making us all mental.
The best part is, I made enough off the pad in So-Cal to buy the farm out right.
Buh-bye mortgage!

It's two-story, but the downstairs is a 1-car garage & basement partially set into a hillside. The upstairs is the living quarters. A master bedroom w/ full bath. Two guest bedrooms. A guest bath. Kitchen is in the middle of the house. The living room/dining room are combined in what is called on the blue print the "great room," which runs the length of the house. The living area upstairs is 1400 sq ft.

???

I guess it's just a house. Our little house with putty siding and green shutters, up on a little hill with a blue birdbath and a circular flower garden and a lamppost.... I like our house. :7

That's 1980s, not 1880s, unfortunately.

But I love it. We have window seats, a clerestory window and cathedral ceiling in the master, plant ledges, and a jacuzzi tub.

Plus, we're near a big lake, so we have seagulls and wild geese flying overhead.

I've done a lot of painting and improvements since we moved in in December 2002. And now I'm working on the garden.

All this for only $105,000.

Log farm house on 90+ acres, with a nice set of buildings (barn, machine shed, smokehouse, etc.) "Updated" in the teens with a slate roof. Old may have character, but it is sure high upkeep.

on our street and all the streets in our city, except for the streets with bungalows...or cape cods as some regions call them. Boooorrrrrinngggg. But nice, in a predictable way. :hi:

Mine's 1951 though, but the basement's finished with a family room, two more bedrooms, and a bath, so it gives a lot of extra space to what was once our tiny house. :)

get around to it. That's where I DU...er...work. My office is down here. :hi: You gotta admit, they are built pretty solid.

but it's almost paid off (like this year!!!), so then I can start using that mortgage payment to fix some things and pay tuition.

Resturant size kitchen and dining room, bar and lounge and pantry.

Community sized veggie garden and some bungalows out back with more rooms we rent out.

with many changes made by moi.

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And no, an apartment is NOTHING like a dorm.
Duckie

Well, forget the CS&N song. Used to own a five acre, beautiful ranch with an in-ground pool and a huge deck in the country; dog and two cats, kept it after my divorce. Then chased women, made bad decisions, left a good job for one (not her fault, admittedly), unemployed for over two years, and lost it all. I still remember how my apple blossoms would bloom so beautifully every spring, and how the garden around the pool was so very admired (with good reason). I miss it, and my tractor, that I spun around the yard on. It was gorgeous. Now, mired in debt; living in an apartment. But, at least I now have a job. Wish I had a dog, but someday. Tired of feeling sorry for myself, but it was a beautiful home. Getting old to start over, but have my books, and the Tigers are 2-0. And spring can't be more than two months away, here in Michigan.

A lot like this:

In my dreams

I'm still in the process of moving, though. That's why I haven't been around lately.

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