I love our farm.
Last January, we bought a place up in Chester County. My friend likes to call it "The Compound". I can assure you, however, that there is no snake handling or animal sacrifice going on (unless you count running across a copperhead while you're carrying a 500 - that's an entirely different story).
We always wanted to have a place that we could pass down to future generations. We looked on and off for about 3 years without any luck before finding this place. After finding the listing on one of the Realtors' sites, we called the Agent. He was on vacation and couldn't show us the property, so we decided to mapquest it and see if we could find it. After a bit of driving and enjoying the country, we stumbled upon the place. (This was no small feat if you know anything about country roads. There are never any street signs and the same road can have 3 or 4 different names.)
From the road, it didn't look like much, but you couldn't really tell what was over the ridge. We decided that we'd just park at the road and walk up the driveway since the gate was locked. The moment of truth was when we got to the top of that first ridge. We didn't go any farther because we didn't have the agent with us, but we both knew that this was the place immediately.
We decided right away what we were willing to pay for it. If the seller couldn't take what we were offering, we wouldn't buy it. Although it was our dream, we were not willing to burden ourselves with something we couldn't afford. We made an offer the day we saw it with the agent and within 2 or 3 hours, the seller had accepted our offer.
We had to wait about a month to close. It went by so slowly. The seller had promised to rent the trailer to someone else so we just got the land. I am so glad it worked out that way because we are almost done building our own little cabin. Keith is spraying on the "knock-down" finish on the sheetrock upstairs today. After we prime and paint the upstairs, we'll be able to put the (already purchased for $35) carpet down and then we can set up the bedroom furniture. Aside from trim and moulding, the upstairs will be done. YAY!!!
We need to finish the plumbing for downstairs (putting in drains for the sinks and washing machine), kitchen countertops, flooring, wiring the ventahood and stove outlet and trim and moulding and downstairs will also be done.
I love our place. Keith and I built it together. (Yes, he did most of the work, but I helped and learned a lot of stuff that I didn't know before.) I am so thankful that I have a husband who can do anything that needs to be done at our house. Even if he's never done something, he's never afraid to try and even when I'm mostly in the way, he lets me help him. I think we make a great team. I can't wait to grow old together.
Last January, we bought a place up in Chester County. My friend likes to call it "The Compound". I can assure you, however, that there is no snake handling or animal sacrifice going on (unless you count running across a copperhead while you're carrying a 500 - that's an entirely different story).
We always wanted to have a place that we could pass down to future generations. We looked on and off for about 3 years without any luck before finding this place. After finding the listing on one of the Realtors' sites, we called the Agent. He was on vacation and couldn't show us the property, so we decided to mapquest it and see if we could find it. After a bit of driving and enjoying the country, we stumbled upon the place. (This was no small feat if you know anything about country roads. There are never any street signs and the same road can have 3 or 4 different names.)
From the road, it didn't look like much, but you couldn't really tell what was over the ridge. We decided that we'd just park at the road and walk up the driveway since the gate was locked. The moment of truth was when we got to the top of that first ridge. We didn't go any farther because we didn't have the agent with us, but we both knew that this was the place immediately.
We decided right away what we were willing to pay for it. If the seller couldn't take what we were offering, we wouldn't buy it. Although it was our dream, we were not willing to burden ourselves with something we couldn't afford. We made an offer the day we saw it with the agent and within 2 or 3 hours, the seller had accepted our offer.
We had to wait about a month to close. It went by so slowly. The seller had promised to rent the trailer to someone else so we just got the land. I am so glad it worked out that way because we are almost done building our own little cabin. Keith is spraying on the "knock-down" finish on the sheetrock upstairs today. After we prime and paint the upstairs, we'll be able to put the (already purchased for $35) carpet down and then we can set up the bedroom furniture. Aside from trim and moulding, the upstairs will be done. YAY!!!
We need to finish the plumbing for downstairs (putting in drains for the sinks and washing machine), kitchen countertops, flooring, wiring the ventahood and stove outlet and trim and moulding and downstairs will also be done.
I love our place. Keith and I built it together. (Yes, he did most of the work, but I helped and learned a lot of stuff that I didn't know before.) I am so thankful that I have a husband who can do anything that needs to be done at our house. Even if he's never done something, he's never afraid to try and even when I'm mostly in the way, he lets me help him. I think we make a great team. I can't wait to grow old together.
1 comment:
WHat a cool thing to do together and i hope you update this blog more.
Good to see you in blogland!
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