One week engaged and we finally find our home. It is after a year of searching for her, many, many false starts and quite a few moments of "we will never find one!"...but we did find her.
She is nestled in a part of Newcastle that if you didn't have to go to, you wouldn't. Hence, there is no traffic, very few visitors and kids can ride their bikes on the street!
We are opposite a beautiful park that on the weekend is filled with kids, bikes and dogs and there always seems to be a birthday party going on!
But the house....... we first found her on the internet and the outside grabbed our attention.
When we walked up to the property on its first open day, with its overgrown lawn, its broken gate and a ... is it a garden? ... we had to laugh.
The inside.....I am reminded of a TV show called "How Clean is Your House?" (which I have never managed to watch a full episode of!), the house (which is currently inhabited) has an odour that makes ones face pinch in a rather unattractive way. With a deep breath at the front door we plunged in.
The first thing that strikes you about this house (other than the smell), is the dirty salmon pink of the walls and the filthy mustard yellow of the carpet.
I have attached a floor plan so you can walk through:
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| Floor Plan |
These are the photos that were on the web advertising the house. This is actually a clean and tidy version of the house that we entered!
As you walk in the front door you step into a wide hallway. The hallway has ornament rails on the walls and ahead there is an oddly angled double opening door with beautiful (but dirty) leadlight glass.
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| View looking back up the hallway to the front door |
To your left (through double sliding leadlight glass doors) is the lounge room; with a big bay window facing the street and a strange blue fire place(?).
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Beautiful leadlight windows - and doors |
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| Very dirty fireplace! |
Back into the hallway and to your right is a normal door leading to the main bedroom. Again, there is a beautiful bay window that mirrors the one in the lounge room. The biggest feature in this room however, is the huge dark wood floor to ceiling wardrobe that is right in front of you as you enter the room!
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| You can just see the very edge of the wardrobe to the left.. |
From this room, you continue down the hallway to the oddly angled door. To the right of this door is a space (I don’t know how else to describe this area, so we will call it a vestibule). Coming off this vestibule is 2 doors and a cupboard. The cupboard is a linen press and juts back into the bathroom by almost a metre (you could lose a person at the back of that cupboard!). Right next to the cupboard is the bathroom door. The ‘wet room’: mould I have found your ‘mother ship’ – it is terrible and ... no, let’s just leave it at that..
The other door is to the 2nd bedroom. This room is currently being used as an office and there is so much in there it is almost impossible to see anything – including how big it is! (no pictures of this one sorry - you will just have to take my word for it!).
Through the oddly angled double doors and you are into the dining room/kitchen. The kitchens is original and built into an alcove with some intricate wood arching.
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| Don't you love the bottles lined up on the wall! |
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| Look at the woodwork! |
The last part of the house is a sunroom/enclosed veranda/waisted space and a laundry.
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| Quite a large wasted space! |
Through the back door and the back yard is: fresh air!!!
Despite however, our initial introduction to her, we could see that she could be a beautiful home and 8 weeks later – after a traumatic settlement she was ours......
Now I have to plan an engagement party....!
