We bought a house!

just a quick update to let you all know that Sean and I signed the 4 pages last night and bought ourselves a house!

here are the pictures from the MLS listing

Our 12x16 deck (missing a railing) so we'll be adding that in the summer

our backyard, needs a little work

laundry room

downstairs full bathroom

rec room in basement

rec room in the basement

second bedroom - upstairs

3rd bedroom, downstairs (possibly the craft room)

living room upstairs with a wood burning fireplace - pretty isn't it?

Dining room with doors outside to our deck

main level full bathroom

master bedroom

Kitchen - not as nice as the one I gave up but one day it will be

Living Room

We get possession of our house on Tuesday, November 29th!! so just under 2 weeks until we move out of the condo and into our house - very exciting!

Ta Ta For Now
Brianne

Dreaming of a New Craft Space

it's 7:12pm and I am patiently waiting for my hubby to make it home so we can go eat supper.  As I am patiently waiting I am dreaming of what our new house will look like once we move in.....

We got some great news today, the beautiful little house on the hill that backs on to a cemetery is one step closer to being ours.  Our broker came through and got us a signed deal with Scotiabank!
The last step is for our home inspection report to show us nothing major and then we will sign on the dotted line and move in on November 30th.

What I can't wait for the most is to move into my NEW scrapbooking room.  This beauty of a house comes with 3 bedrooms, so this time we will actually have a spare bedroom with a bed (courtesy of Stacy) for all your visitors and a separate scrapbooking space.

I've been researching what I want this space to look like, and here are some of the fabulous options I've found, courtesy of houzz.com.

 

 

I love the space for friends to come and crop

love the punch of colour and kick ass wall paper - what a place to create in

I like having the desk in the middle with a great light right above your workspace

I love how cozy and organized chaos this room is

this punch of colour is awesome

Each picture has something in it that I want to capture in my space.

• bright punch of colour 
• tons of storage
• a great workspace
• handy ways of storing items

Of course the biggest thing for me is STORAGE! my new mantra is "a place for everything and everything in it's place".  The hard part is paying for the storage! Scrapbooking companies are smart, they know you want 12x12 sized items so these come with a pretty price tag.  My mission is to reuse some materials to make my own storage.

give me your thoughts - what do you like about the above pics?
For the croppers out there - what in your craft space do you love the most???

Ta Ta For Now
Bri

A House Hunting We Will Go

...well as promised here is the update on our hunt for a house in Vernon.

In true Brianne fashion I was totally prepared to view houses the day after we arrived in Vernon.  My fantastic friend Sara Knol hooked me up with her friend and relator Saffron Quist and for two weeks while we were still in Ontario I bombarded Saffron with questions and MLS listings - in fact I sent her 22 houses I wanted to view!!! 

In the end, I narrowed the list down to 7 and Saffron set up the appointments!

So off we went, it was a beautiful BC day, sun was shining and I was PUMPED to start finding our new abode here.  The disappointment started early.  The house I love love love already had an offer on it.

my #1 choice but was sold before we got here

and the #2 house was pulled off the market.  So now with our list of houses down to 5 I turned to Saffron to fill in the blanks with some of her personal choices.

We saw a ghetto house with a cement front yard in a not so desirable area, a beautiful lot with a creek running through it, but Grandma died in the house, and then we saw the foreclosure house.  

The Foreclosure House

Now this house is HUGE and up in the hills with a view to die for, so of course Sean and I were game to see it.  We get there and everything is great until we get to the basement - where spray painted in lime green there are pictures of men's privates, F-bombs on the walls and lots of the female dogs!  

Sean liked the potential of the house, but I didn't want to be in a house with so much negativity!

Next we get to a house that Saffron recommended - I had seen it on MLS but I wasn't too keen on only having 2 bedrooms. 

 

Well the moment you walk into this house your jaw drops, it is GORGEOUS!! Granite counter tops, huge stone fireplace, bathrooms to die for - well it did not take long for Sean and I to see ourselves settling down in this beautiful home - oh and did I mention it comes with a hot tub and a full workshop?? So that was it, we went for lunch and decided to put on offer on this beauty.

It wasn't until the home inspection that our dreams were crushed! for lack of better words, this house had an indoor pool in the basement, and not the kind you want.  The foundation has been leaking for at least 25 years so let's just say there is a lot of water.....too much water for us to take on, so just as quickly as we were dreaming of hot tubbing in the snow, we had to cancel our bid on the house.

To say my dreams were crushed was an understatement - for the next 2 days we looked at some more houses and even went back to our runner up and all of them just paled in comparison.

It took me taking a day off from house hunting and switching up "shopping" partners for me to get back into the groove of finding a house and low and behold we found 2!
and here she is!

We've agreed on a price and now we are just waiting to hear from our mortgage broker to make sure they will give us the moola to buy this great house! oh and of course on the house inspection :)

of course I'll keep you updated on what happens!

ta ta for now!

Brianne