This Olde Apartment
 

Ok, so I verbally agreed and shook on it.
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Move in Jan 1.

it has a living room with a fireplace, a tiny second bedroom that I will use as an office, a big main bedroom with an inoperative fireplace...that just looks cool:
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a dining room, an eat in kitchen, a mudroom, half of the basement, half of the 2 car garage!( motorcycle storage) a big front porch.

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And theres a big old electric organ in the foyer! It's a quiet one way street, and shady. Only one other tenant in the house, and she and her man have been there 18 years.

....I'm kind of stoked.

Woot! Way to go Jim.

So...party at Jim's gaff then.

I'll bring the Wild Turkey and fine pot, who's bringing the powder?

I LOVE that house! Look at that porch!

That's going to be so nice to sit on in the evening drinking a cold one when the weather warms up.

Seriously, that's beautiful.

I know, so lovely. If I had that porch I'd sit on it and pretend I was in True blood...

tmi?

Maybe you don't want to say, but is this H*dd*nf**ld?

I'ma coming to the housewarming too!

Can't bring cleavage or powder, but I'll do cookies and smiles.
[Hsssst - don't invite Lola or I'll be redundant]

Oh that's so mean.
Okay, I'll bring spotted dick and steak & kidney pudding instead.

PS - looks wonderful.

Nice!

I love it. Is it the Halloween house? ;)

Yeah, that front porch and a fireplace, and an eat-in chicken...wow.

I would sit on the porch when storms rolled in, like mom and I used to do. Ooooh ooooh...are you allowed to put up a porch swing? Sigh...sit in the swing reading.

I've always dreamed of having a big shady porch like that. Enjoy it!

The corner on the right side...is that the living room? Is that room shaped like that too?

Do you know when the house was built?

(My friends have a small place in a house built in 1873. The woodwork is amazing. There's a closet that USED to house a murphy bed. I'd so put a murphy bed in, so I could be like Caroline on 2 Broke Girls.)

Merchantville. Haddonfield is 15 minutes away. This place is 1/4 mile west of the Chery Hill Mall.

Yes, shaw, the living room is in front on the right. Theres a big working fireplace in that room.

I just realized that there was no dish washer.... meh

Yeah, I can't wait to get altituded and sit on that porch and strum my guitar.

Yay!

Looks great ... but what the heck is a mudroom?


Sundae, what do you mean, you can't bring cleavage???

Love that song! I used to live 42 steps from the street. And i just heard bnl and some woman singing God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

Great place jim! I have never had a working fireplace.

Beautiful house, Jim! Love the porch. Those older houses are magnificent.
I'll bring creme de menthe bars to the housewarming.

Small entryway room that is intended for removing muddy boots and shaking snow off the coat during the winter. Not always part of the central heating, sometimes little more than an enclosed porch. They don't exist in my part of the country, I just know about them from relatives who live where it snows a lot.

Cool new diggs Jim !!

Dear, if you bring cookies, I'll bring cake. ;) Heck, you make better cake than I do. You bring cake and I'll bring cookies, hehe.


Anyways, that house does look nice. I think the porch is wonderful to sit out and play an instrument. With your wonderful playing, I'm sure the neighbors won't mind.

that is such a cool house, Jim.

and the money you'll save -wow. totally.

congrats to you and tony both!

eta: I know tony lives elsewhere- but it just seemed good to cover both bases as it were. :)

Moving In Flowers :flower: :flower:

Looks good Jim. Good for you. And heck, its almost free!

I tried!! I tried to make the Cellar House happen!!

This is kind of weird, but at 42.... I've never lived alone.

At 53, neither have I. Enjoy it, I'm sure there'll be some positives you didn't think of. I hear Merchantville is nice.

At first I was depressed as hell (but was going thru divorce with the man I twuuuuuuuly wuved) and didn't have enough money tho I was working nights. AND I WAS WORKING NIGHTS.

But now---now that I'm finally settled I LOVE it.

It might take a while, but I bet you come to love it, too.

Yeah ... going through the same thing. Fifty-something, never lived alone. Well, I guess my first year of university counts. Once I met my ex in second year he moved in pretty fast - strictly for practical reasons, of course :rolleyes: ...
And I never lived alone again.

So it's pretty cool having my own woman-cave.

womIn cave.

:lol: sorry Trilby, but my blurry vision read your post as 'worm In cave' !! :eek:

Think I'll stick with woman-cave, at least until my vision returns to normal.

Yeah, y'know that kind of terminology is tricksy. A woman cave could mean somanythings...

If I lived alone, I would walk around the house nekkid, after removing all the mirrors. I wouldn't have a bureau, I would have a clean clothes basket and a dirty clothes basket. I would reuse the same flatware, use it, wash it, use it - no need to ever be put away. I would have lots of house plants, and I would never dust. Celery would not be allowed in my house. But that's me.

Quentin Crisp says he never cleaned his apt and after about the first four years you really couldn't tell any difference.

MOAR PICS
 

DINING ROOM:
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LIVING ROOM
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OFFICE (9X9...It's tiny)
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Bedroom
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Looks nice and cozy, Jim. Built in corner cabinets are cool.

I'm in love! that is one beautiful place, jim.


I soooooooo dig houses that have character. I'd take that one over one of those hideous McMansions anyday of the week.


Like an English muffin-nooks and crannies! and the office-who cares at the size-look at those windows!!


the other people live upstairs???? do they have a private entrance?

I love it, jim. The living room is gonna be so cool all furnished and stuff. Now, where's the fridge, let's crack open a beer. ;)

let's see moar pics. mudroom for Zen, please.

MOAR!

Close, that's where everyone removes all their clothing, before entering The Jimboy Mansion tm.

Those last are the ones taken for the mls listing.

Ill get more once I'm in. maybe a quick video tour.

Yes, BRI, only one other tenant, and she has an entrance in back. The kitchen counters are sagging and gross, the stove is an old gas range, and the fridge is kind of funky. I'll replace that eventually. The LL is fine with me improving things.

I can see being comfortable there.

Here's the kitchen as is:

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no cabinets other than this big fella

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and the porch from each side:

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Fantastico! Imma gonna come over and do a tour of teh fabulous new Cellar residences!!!

What is up with those window treatments? Ugh.

Looking forward to the house tour once you're settled!

I've seen-hell, I've LIVED-in worse kitchens.

but you're right---the kitchen does need a shake up.

my almost favorite part:
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an actual garage!

Every other apartment complex I looked at had NO covered parking. one even said NO MOTORCYCLES!

it's going to be just like I'm a grown up! with my own tools in my own garage and all!

I'm getting all worked up here


street view

Well, I'm 42 and I've never lived alone, and it doesn't look like I'll be living alone anytime soon. :rolleyes: I guess I'm more weird. :frog:

As for your place, it looks super wonderful, especially the patio. I've always daydreamed of living in a house with a patio like that.

By the time I was 42 I'd never lived with/cohabited with anyone. When Mr Limey moved in it was a bit of a shock. 20 years of living on my own as an adult ended then.

Sent by thought transference.

I'm pretty sure some kind of wrestling takes place there, too.

That is a sweet porch.

What a great area to live in. When I was working in Mt. Laurel, one of the buses I use to take went through Merchantville. Passing by all those lovely Victorian houses made for some nice sight-seeing.

Yeah, the mudroom. ;) Don't let Clod's explanation fool ya.

win!

I dropped off the lease and the checks today.

now a looooong 3 week wait for the 1st.

sigh. every night I have to stay until 10:30 and then drive an hour home, then right back 1 1/2 hours in the morning is going to be torture.

It's not a porch. It's a Merchedes.

:drummer:

a three week nightmare, right? Not the new commute config.

Mer-shade-ease. ;)

Good thing we put an extra can of paint on it.

Hmmmpf. Can't get verizon here. Must go xfinity. Balz

Just wait a few days!!

well, I put in for that notify me thing. I hope your technique works.

I did that what feels like years ago, but something tells me fios is not in Old City's future. I think you have better prospects out where you are.

I spoke to the realtor today, and she says they added a dishwasher when they re did the kitchen!

Sweeet !!!
Whats her Name ??