Brandon and I noticed that the house next door was having an open house today from 2-5pm, so, curious as to what changes had been made since we viewed it months ago, we walked over to check it out. Turns out they had turned the laundry room into a half bath...a half bath with laundry hookups in it, that is. A half bath with laundry hookups, right off the dining room. Hmm. Well, it is an improvement over the way it was, with the laundry room open between the kitchen and dining room, but it's a little awkward to have your half bath off the dining room. It did save the one huge hall closet, though, so it's not a bad compromise.
While we were there, the agent told us that there were seven other open houses in the neighborhood, and if we visted all eight, we could enter a drawing to win a 27" flat screen tv. Well, who can turn that down? Only catch? The open houses ended in 20 minutes! Could we do it?
We jumped in the car (wishing we'd known sooner in order to make it a walking tour) and headed to the other end of our street. The first house we toured was one of our favorites--a remodeled bungalow with heart pine floors and an open floorplan. One of the next houses we vistited was a natural wood (cedar?) frame home that I'd been curious about ever since we moved to the neighborhood. There are a couple of homes like that in the neighborhood, and they are unlike any others here. We arrived a few minutes before official open house end time, but the agent was already packing up. We're not sure if she'd already turned the lights off, or if they were off during the whole open house. We were welcomed in, and she quickly showed us through the home. The weirdest thing was, there were people--the residents, I assume--asleep in all of the bedrooms! She quietly showed us around, and pointed out the bedrooms but explained that she could not show them because they were being slept in at the moment. Um...okay. There were clothes and belongings everywhere, and dirty pans on the stove. I was told that I could go up the metal circular staircase in the living room and check out the loft space above. Since we've considered doing something similar at our house (and making the attic an office/spare room), I climbed up, expecting to find an empty room. Instead, more belongings and clothing covered the room, and an unmade bed was on one side of the room. The room was dark and it was hard to see the stairs to come back down! This ranks as the strangest home tour we've ever gone on.
We thought we'd made the rounds and gotten to all the houses, but now we think we missed one on the street behind us. No tv for us, I guess :( Too bad, because there were just a handful of folks viewing the homes.
It was nice to see the neighborhood and several different types of homes nearby. We told everyone that we are encouraging our friends to move to East Point and this gives us a better idea of what's on the market in the neighborhood.
Here are links to some of our favorite houses, including two renovated homes and one new home that looked authentically original.
1359 St. Michael Ave., 1482 St. Joseph Ave., and 1530 St. Joseph Ave.
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