We have a house!

It's not the plain, somewhat ugly vinyl sided colonial in 'Tosa with the Five Car Garage (and thre car car-port) with a lovely interior that I'd first fallen in love with. It's not the folk victorian a block away from my dad that I remember seeing every day down the hill in the backyard. The house that inspired the research on restoring old homes that led me to houseblogs.net. It's also not the beautiful 2,500 sq. ft. brick colonial that was available via bank auction through a weird ebay-for-houses like bidding process that I will never go through (or put a realtor through) again. Finally, it's not the victorian up on the hill overlooking the lake that we never went to see, because we'd already settled on buying our Tiny Yellow Cottage.

While certainly not a vision of a "dream home" that'd I had always pictured in my imagination while growing up, it works, and I think we can be happy here for a while. It was the best combination of location, (low property taxes and close to work for both of us) price, (while not a stellar deal, we could afford it) space, (Even though there's not enough garage, there's enough yard to add on. Even though the house is small, it's enough for a child-free couple.) and the style (it's cute, and has lots of character with much of the original woodwork (unpainted!!)) is exactly what I wanted in a home.

There's really not a lot of work to be done, so starting a houseblog about it is a little pointless, but when we thought we *were* going to get into a house that needed a lot of work, I was so stoked by the idea of doing one of these, and so I will still chronicle the work we do to our tiny, mostly original, yellow, 1920's, cape cod.