{"id":12568,"date":"2004-11-12T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/?p=12568"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:50:00","slug":"our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2004\/11\/12\/our-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Our house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In September 2004, Neil and I started looking for houses after selling my condo<\/a> and subletting a one-bedroom apartment at Yonge and Davisville. We started our search for our new home in the East York area and here’s a sampling of what we viewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn’t keen on the area: street parking, a 30+ min drive to work, and the houses felt very small (smaller square footage than my sold condo). There were numerous ‘what-have-I-done’ thoughts while we were checking out these houses. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually, we started looking in the North York area, which had driveways, a 15 min drive to work, and the houses felt a little more spacious (though similar in square footage to my sold condo). These are the photos from ‘House Inspection Day’ of what we actually bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kitchen facing the front door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Same perspective, looking left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Living room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Second bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Master bedroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Closet in the master bedroom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Top of the stairs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Main floor (and only) bathroom. The original owner raised 4 kids in this house. We discovered later that there were TWO layers of carpet in here \ud83e\udd2e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back door – stairs continue to the basement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking out to the backyard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views of the back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Views of the front of the house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking down to the basement. The stairs were pretty treacherous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Freezer area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Basement bedroom that was put in for the original owner’s grandson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Furnace area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Laundry area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Neil with the keys to the house on Closing Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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In September 2004, Neil and I started looking for houses after selling my condo and subletting a one-bedroom apartment at Yonge and Davisville. We started our search for our new home in the East York area and here’s a sampling of what we viewed. I wasn’t keen on the area: street parking, a 30+ min […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_1130.jpg?fit=1536%2C2048&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12660,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12568\/revisions\/12660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}