My house is a very very very fine house...

[susandennis]

This is one of those posterity entries. In my next life - known as The Great Do Over - I will have done this for each of the places I live. But, I'm a slow starter this time around so this will have to do for now.

This is my condo. If you click on it, you'll get a big version of just the layout. It is basically open. The only to-the-ceiling walls are around the bathrooms. We're looking at 1,244 square feet here. I paid $169,000 in 1992. It is an old railroad warehouse that two women converted into condos. They had just finished when I moved to Seattle and I fell in love with the place the minute I walked in.

My realtor thought I was nuts ('no one lives downtown - that's just silly') and the guy I was dating at the time did his dead level best to convince me that this was the worst decision I could make. ('This neighborhood is dangerous and you'll never get your money out of the place' - last appraisal was $280,000.) I have never once, for a minute, regretted living here.

It is the second most favorite place I've ever lived. (The best house/condo I ever lived in...) It is, by far, the place I've lived the longest. I have no desire to move anywhere else... ever.

I do plan, when I get rich - or when the HGTV sweepstakes, to find a decorator, gut the place and completely redo the insides.

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

Nice lay-out. What's the thing in your living room?

[susandennis]

Fireplace

[thegreggory.livejournal.com]

I used to live in a converted warehouse Loft.

very cool place to live, and lots of places for kitty to explore.

if I end up in denver again, I'll live there again.

[susandennis]

That entry way is a very useful space - I like your idea of the library... Right now it is a guest room/laundry folding area/sewing room... It makes a good guest room if you are after the kind of room that says 'this room is really only good for one night or two...'

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Sometimes kjaz and I are on the same wavelength, today is one of those days. I guess it's because we share a birthday. I was going to ask about the entry, also.

[susandennis]

This is what I told Kjaz!

That entry way is a very useful space - I like your idea of the library... Right now it is a guest room/laundry folding area/sewing room... It makes a good guest room if you are after the kind of room that says 'this room is really only good for one night or two...'

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

The perfect guest room!!!

[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

Interesting how all of us are thinking in that mode! I think we've seen the kitchen and the bed/closet, cand of course the living room..but not the foyer.

Must be where that big closet you recently cleaned out is.

[susandennis]

Exactly! That's the very closet - in the guestroom/laundry folding room/sewing room. There are no windows so it's kind of a cubby hole kind of place. The only air/light source is at the opposite end where the terrace is.

with two cats in the yard....

[jwg.livejournal.com]

well, you have two cats, but no yard...

The Difference Between Southern Charm,Class&Trash?

[pinkrose70.livejournal.com]

Wayyyyyyyyy....off topic,but....

Thought you and your Mom et al may enjoy this one!

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/05/State/Retirement_home_melee.shtml

Re: The Difference Between Southern Charm,Class&Trash?

[susandennis]

That is hilarlious!