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RayPeterson wrote:
It's really beautiful. When did you purchase it? How many square meters to you have to live?
Do you spend a lot of time with it (fixing stuff, taking care of the plants / garden etc.)?
With my inability to fix things on my own, I guess I'd have to call someone everytime something goes bust.
It's a LOT bigger than it looks, that kinda surprised me AFTER I had bought the place. It's about 310 m2 (basement and indoor terrace included), that's about 3300 sq ft to you Americans out there.
here are some more images of it:
The back yard:
The driveway:
The garage entrance:
As you can see, the house is actually quite high, I recently fixed and repaired the entire balcony. It's very inexpensive when you do stuff yourself.
Balcony view:
Main living room:
I've made the main living room kinda look like "Klopek style" old 50's look, since it already came with nice solid walls and nice solid wooden floors
The main entrance:
I've got an indoor terrace too, which is absolutely wonderful in the summers, like an amazon rainforest, lots of vegetables growing in there. etc.
Yes, it's my little Swedish paradise.
And you won't believe what I paid for the house, 57000 USD. Yes! Your read right...Fifty Seven thousand dollars! Yes sir, Mr. Peterson. I'm a real bonafide homeowner now, and it's the best thing in my life.
The secret to the low price, is the location. It's located 1 hour away from the big city, we're not that small either...we're like 13.000 residents, whereas 7000 of them are very tightly nit together like a residential suburban area with nice "Burbish" streets and all.
Yes, it was a bit of a fixer upper when I got it at that price, and I had NEVER done any home improvement work before, never done any carpenter jobs either, and I was all 10 thumbs when I started out fixing basic stuff here, but hey...at that price...it's a good "practice" house, it's so cheap that I can afford to do things twice to learn it. And I've probably done 200+ fixes to it over the 4 years I've lived there...but it's still worth it, and I'd do it again.
I've lived in rooms and apartments all of my life, and I hated every moment of it...noisy neighbors, hating my noises too, smell what they had for dinner, sick when they are sick, smelly air...etc... no thanks, never again - I'm gonna fight for this one! Best 4 years of my life.
