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House Color Inspiration

Posted on | June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

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So I think we maybe homeowners in the next couple of weeks. Keep your fingers crossed and if nothing crazy happens I will have my house by mid-July. I can’t sleep at night because I’m so excited for all the fun projects we get to do. One of first projects I want to get done before winter is cleaning up the outside of the house. The roof needs work, chimney is caving in, put in a brick driveway, and the house needs to be re-painted. I was thinking maybe something creamish toward brownish color? My boyfriend thinks the color is a little to blah. I think it would be amazing with big green variegated hostas and hints of pink bushes and shrubs. Here are few photos I took of cream colored houses in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Marblehead, MA over the past few weeks. What do you guys think?

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We may have a house!

Posted on | June 20, 2008 | Comments Off

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The last couple of months have been a bit stressful. My boyfriend and I have been searching for a house up in Marblehead, Ma. We found one we loved and could afford. The whole process of figuring out our finances and learning about mortgages was extremely overwhelming. We finally figure everything out and made an offer but then find out another offer had been accepted the day before. We were so bummed. So a few weeks past and our lives were just starting to get to normal; when we go a call yesterday letting us know the other buyers backed out and our back up offer has been accepted. We are really excited but now we wonder how are we really going to pay for all of this? Ahh house stress. Next: house inspection.

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