Well – the dream of buying the house with a big front porch is on hiatus.
We ended up renting a couple of connected lofts in a renovated 1920s brick school house – one the kids are renting, and the other for DH and myself. This is as urban an area as I’m likely to find in our sprawling city in the south…and it is a bit of a change for me. We are very fortunate in that our (DH & mine) loft has a very wide deck…big enough to invest in patio furniture once the fall sales begin. Last night we laid on the porch looking up at the stars for quite a while. So…ok, I have a porch “like” existence at the moment.
We’ve been in about a week – still with boxes all over the place, still trying to figure out what to do with everything we kept and transported to the new digs. The individual who renovated the space did some neat things – the bedroom areas used to be the old hallways, so they are very long and sorta narrow. Back in the day (that would be preA/C), there were windows on the exterior walls and then transom windows on the interior walls separating the hallways and classrooms…which would themselves have windows on the far side…everything could be open to catch cross breezes. The place thankfully has central heat and air now (as well as insulated windows) so the missing windows in the middle hallway are just part of the unique architectural look of the loft.
After we unpack completely, I’ll post some photos … until then there’s not much to show.
