When we saw the house we weren't looking to buy just browsing. Trying to decide which town we would like to move to once our kids reach school age. The city we lived in had pretty bad public schools, so we knew a move to the burbs laid in our future. Our house was on a market and I saw it on Trulia many times, but it looked liked it was located in a flood zone and on a corner lot, which for me was a big concern. Turns out that the property is long enough that even in hurricane Sandy, when the town got flooded pretty badly, the river didn't reach the house. As for the side street I saw in pictures, it's a dead end street that's used mostly by us and next door neighbors.
The house was built circa 1890 and it's a Victorian. It has a lot of charm, character and more space than we will ever need, yet it doesn't feel over sized. Most importantly, it is located on a beautiful lot and we even have a river in the backyard. The lot itself is over .6 acres, which is almost miraculous if you consider the fact that we are only about 20 minutes away from Manhattan.
What can I say? It was love at first sight. The house has a great flow, lots of light, beautiful parquet floor on the first floor, high ceiling, pocket doors and original base boards and molding.
Details, that are hard to come by in newer construction.
Now it's not all sweet and preety. The house is very dated. Half of the rooms have wallpaper in them. There is old wall to wall carped on the second floor and most importantly 40 year old kitchen with the worse, most bizarre layout one could ever imagine. There is no bath on the first floor and the existing baths on the second floor are very dated...and pink.
Just little details, right? It's our forever home and we can put out touch on it, which I very much looking forward too.
