3.16.2012

The First Day

So here we go.  About 2 1/2 months ago, on Gavin's birthday, in fact, we went to see a certain sprawling blue house. From the moment we walked in one word was forefront in our silly, starstruck minds: potential.  Po-freakin-tential.  Sure, the plaster was cracking or gone in many all places, and the kitchen hadn't been updated since the Nixon administration, and a certain bathroom seemed to not only have been designed by Sunoco but to actually be slowly falling off the back of the house, but underneath all of this, we couldn't shake the feeling that this house could really be something special.  Oh, and it was going for a song (because, quel surprise, not very many people seemed to see all that raging potential under the mountain of dirty sweaty LABOR that was also in very much in evidence).  

After a long bout of doubts, and inspections, and price reductions, and more inspections, we decided that we did in fact want to see what we could do about knocking some of the "rough" off this old diamond.  And today, we signed an absolutely insane amount of paperwork to legally make it ours.  Going forward on this blog I will show you plenty of the hideously ugly features of our Blue Elephant as we chisel through the Bad and the Ugly to get to the Good.  But for today, the first day, let's just enjoy a bit of that lovely potential, shall we?

Opening the door for the very first time!

A bit of champagne....

The foyer

It is impossible to tell from this photo how incredibly monstrous this wallpaper looks in real life...

Pocket doors!

Dining Room fireplace.  

Lots of light!

In the attic we found a bunch of Playbills from the 1950s...

And someone's stamp collection as well.

Carving our initials in the "locust post"...

An Irishman goes through a pair of French doors...stop me if you've heard this one...

Found this leather-bound copy of Euripedes in the attic as well- dated 1928. I take it for a sign!

1 comment:

Dana said...

Lots of character, love it. Enjoy creating new memories!!