Don’t you love the view of this house? And you know what?
It get’s even better. 2 houses Down the road live a couple from our church. And their son is Joas’ best friend.
How great would it be if…..
This house seems ideal.
It’s in the estate next to us. The boys could still go to school by bike. The estate has a swimming pool and tennis courts which you can use if your part of the estate- association.
The house inside is lovely. Although much smaller than the house we live in right now.
And we have the pleasure of seeing it even before it’s on the market, back in April, last year.
The garden is the same size we have right now but is situated on the main road from Gouvieux to Chantilly. The noise from the cars is all day long. But back in April the price for the house is high. Almost at the top end of our budget.
And the house doesn’t have the guest rooms we’d so like to have.
But it’s next to our friends.
Even though the price has come down almost 100 000. 00 euro’s since, every time we stand in front of the house and hear the noise, we step back into our car and say: “No, this house is not for us!”
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 Plop!
An add pops up on the immobilier site.
A house with a GREAT garden in Gouvieux.
Again the pictures are not everything and the address is unknown.
And so the phonecall to the estate agent is made again.
Later that week we meet in front of the house. The house is on Rue or Route de Lamorlaye.
Although it’s a fairly busy road the owners of the house say it never bothers them. The house is: weird!
It’s been built in 3 different stages in over the last 70 years. Starting in the year 1942. The house is entered via a small, glass conservatory. After that you step immediately into the old living room space. With a fireplace.
This is the centre room in the house. All the other rooms are entered via this room.
On the left 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Straight across a very small French kitchen. And to the right the new living room built in 1952.
The new living room has, all the way to the right side of the house in the right corner, the stairs to the first floor.
The first floor is even weirder. The mezzanine is big with windows. The ‘room’ after that has NO windows and leads to a VERY BIG room all the way to the left side of the house. And there’s a bathroom with an electric toilet.
Basically the upstairs has just one bedroom.
The sous sol (basement) is big but the ceilings are low. Mark has to bend a little.
And the sous sol can only be reached through the outside of the house. And the only place where the washing machine can go is in the sous sol.
I just can’t see myself walking outside with a basket of laundry to open the sous sol with the key to reach my washing machine. And then…. I know so many washes will be done and after that forgotten because I just don’t pass the washing machine and see that it’s ready. We think about it.
We even go back for a second viewing on Thanks Giving Day.
But in the end we feel the house just wouldn’t work for us.
And so we leave it again….. |
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