Comments on: Thursday Thirteen House Hunting Ponderings (#10)

By: Darla

Darla — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:29:56 +0000

LOL! I LOVE househunting. I have vivid memories of one house with wood paneling and long shag carpeting in various shades of brown. In 1997. Another one with a bright green tile fireplace. And one with a completely bright teal room–the walls, the carpeting, the ceiling, the drapes.

It made me feel positively normal.

By: Imperfect Christian

Imperfect Christian — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:34:16 +0000

Who would DO that to a house?!??!

By: Caylynn

Caylynn — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:39:08 +0000

I agree - hardwork floor is the way to go.

And pink carpet? Oh my. That’s just so wrong.

Good luck finding a house! And happy TT.

By: carmen

carmen — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:16:43 +0000

i think it’s a shame how much a house costs. Everyone just lives in debt, I guess.

By: skittles

skittles — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:44:27 +0000

It’s called RENTING. LOL I can’t afford to get a houe. Pink carpeting.. not a clue.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:08:33 +0000

How do people survive without dishwashers?

Very crankily. I speak from experience. Have never had one. Need to remedy that, and soon!

Hardwood floors rock. Just a warning, though: kitties run V. LOUDLY on them. And you’ll need really good socks/slippers in winter. Still, I wouldn’t trade them!

By: n. mallory

n. mallory — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:25:38 +0000

I love the pitter-patter of little paw feet on tile and hardwood.

And I have thought about the slipper issue. It sounds like a good excuse to shop for cute slippers. You know how I love shopping for things that go on my feet.

By: Uisce

Uisce — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:44:39 +0000

When we were looking at houses a number of years ago, we walked into this one and the owner was in the middle of wallpapering the kitchen. What the heck she was thinking, we have no idea. Every inch of wallpaper in that house — and there was a lot of it — has since been removed by us!

By: Caryle

Caryle — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:51:09 +0000

Oh, rats! My last comment didn’t go through.

I love hard wood floors and so does my cat. And pink carpet? Urgh.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:13:20 +0000

Any excuse to shop for cute footwear is a good one, you’re right!

I know, the pitter patter is hilarious. And LOUD. Although that’s only really our two kittens, who at 8 months are still fully immersed in the running around like nutbars stage of their lives … LOL!

By: PRACTiCAL CHiCk

PRACTiCAL CHiCk — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:48:00 +0000

They paint bricks for the same reason that the previous owner of my trailer SPRAY PAINTED it instead of using regular paint…because they are morons.

Thanks for stopping by my TT.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:09:24 +0000

Congratulations! Cute house!!!

We’re hoping to buy something one day soon–the prices are just ridiculous though! I love to look through the Home & Land books, but haven’t really looked yet.

I have to have a dishwasher too…and there’s no way I could do pink anything!

I did wallpaper paneling once…it was better than the paneling!

By: Annamary

Annamary — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:29:07 +0000

I agree with everything you wrote! Good luck!

By: Tod

Tod — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:31:50 +0000

A space shuttle mural!!! Please tell me you made that up?

By: n. mallory

n. mallory — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:00:51 +0000

The living room had one long wall of windows that revealed this gorgeous Asian garden, but it also had this one wall with this giant mural of the Space Shuttle floating over the Earth.

It was the most expensive house I looked at too. I happened to look because it’s a house I’ve admired from the outside for a couple of years and I just noticed it went up for sale.

Boy, you never know from the street what people are doing to their walls.

By: Geekwif

Geekwif — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:24:58 +0000

Wallpaper is some crazy stuff. I figure I’m pretty much guaranteed to be tired of whatever I put on my walls within 3 years or so, and no matter what they say, wallpaper is simply impossible to remove. So basically you have to rebuild your walls every 3 years. Yeah, that’s practical.

By: angela

angela — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:34:38 +0000

We are looking to buy a house too, and are planning to make an offer in the next day or two. It IS nerve-racking and with all the different interpretations of style (and I ues that term loosely) it is amazing that any of us ever find anything…all the best to you, though…:-)

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:13:32 +0000

Pink carpet? Eeeww!

By: mominprogress

mominprogress — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:05:59 +0000

LOL I don’t have a dishwasher but will be definately getting one once we can afford it
thanks for stopping by .

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:25:49 +0000

Sounds like our house hunting experience! The house we bought was covered with paneling on the walls. We were in northern WI and you couldn’t find ANYTHING that didn’t have it! They love them some paneling up there!

I saw house prices are starting to come down though…

Thanks for stopping by! I enjoyed looking over your blog!

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:26:12 +0000

I saw house prices are starting to come down though…

Thanks for stopping by! I enjoyed looking over your blog!

Blessings, Karla

By: natalie

natalie — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:34:08 +0000

I’m with you on the whole wall paper thing!

Hopefully, I won’t have to house hunt for a long time (if ever!)…

Happy hunting!

Thanks for the visit!

By: cat

cat — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:45:38 +0000

Blue laminate countertops and wood paneling? Damn! Who could have predicted the new century would out “bad” the decor of the 70s?

By: JAM

JAM — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:50:32 +0000

Lovely Wife likes to watch that dog wisperer guy on National Geographic channel and the other day they had on an episode where he goes to a lady who only wore pink, her maltese was dyed pink, and the house was completely decorated in pink. Carpet, paint, decorations. It was truly scary.

Asking for a premium price on a house with such bad taste as pink anything in a buyers marked is crazy. I hope they wait a LONG time for that house to sell.

Sorry to be so late visiting you, thanks for stopping by my T13.