Here it is: Olive's House

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Olive

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20/04/2009 8:41 pm

Hi folks,

As promised I dropped in to show you the online listing for our house. Been working my fanny off for the last couple of weeks and it all turned out well for the open house yesterday.

Such a melancholy feeling, selling a home you love because it's not where you want to live. I can't beging to explain how I feel, there are just no words to describe it. I truly wish we could take the house with us!

Some of the details you'll see are more for selling purposes than to our taste, but mostly this is the house we love.

Thanks for all your kind words on my 'taking a break' thread, I went back and read them and got a nice surprise.

-Kerry

PS: I also learned about Koen's disaster and hopefully will be able to help out on that.

Main listing page here: http://www.mlsplug-in.com/featured/detail.asp?Office=1010&id=4295201

Panoramas here:

http://homesite.obeo.com/viewer/default.aspx?tourid=529706&refURL=360house.com&locale=en-US

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LuciferSum

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21/04/2009 3:51 am

Its a beaut
Wish I were not city-bound!

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barrympls

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21/04/2009 4:52 am

Very nice, Olive
but I'd need a touch more clutter!

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21/04/2009 5:29 am

Not when
You're trying to sell it.....

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barrympls

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21/04/2009 7:18 am

I see your point
Woody; I miss that she's got it for sale.
Good luck. A particularly good modern house will sell despite the lousy economy.

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SDR

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21/04/2009 8:16 am

Boy
that's special. You won't see siding laid like that anytime soon. Are you emphasizing the unique crafted nature of the property ?
I'm glad you didn't do away with the book-matched ply cabinet doors in the kitchen. I always liked those.
Geez, where did I get the idea you were in the western part of the state. . .?

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Olive

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21/04/2009 7:50 pm

Clutter and clapboards
Well, we're not clutter people anyway, but yes, these photos are almost magazine-like in their staged decluttered-ness. That's what you do when you sell. We did several things that were all about selling like carpeting in the MBR and setting up most of the lower level as bedrooms.
SDR, yeah, those clapboards are one of the features we were taken with when we bought it. This house is full of those kinds of artisan touches. If you could really see the overhead beams in the main room you'd see that there are 14ft spans of doug fir with NO knots! Amazing the effort that went into the use of wood in this house. And we are west of Boston and we are moving west...so maybe that's where you got that idea.
Lucifersum...we're only an hour away from downtown and here we see every kind of wildlife you can imagine in New England. A fair trade for a commute to town as far as we see it. I will miss this place very, very much.

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Olive

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11/06/2009 8:34 pm

The deed is done!
We sold the house! Santa Fe here we come! Egads! Now I have to pack!

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11/06/2009 8:43 pm

Congratulations, Olive, and...
Congratulations, Olive, and good luck. I can totally relate to your conflicting feelings, but a house is a hard thing to move. Home is where the heart is, or something like that.
Toodle-oo

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