Presenting Casa MacSly

Last Sunday we went by the guest-house, library, den, new kitchen dream house we'd peeked through the windows to see. The owner was there and let us take a tour, and it was craziness. New everything. Tall granite countertops. A guest house with kitchenette and bathroom.

We went back in the main house from the huge backyard and I asked the owner if he was willing to lower the rent if we signed a one year lease. He said he already had an offer for full asking price with one year lease, so I winked at Ed and I left. Driving away, Ed said we'd better put in an offer at full price right away, but I called shenanigans. No way did the guy already have an offer on the table; the place had been vacant for six months and it was just too coincidental that he "had an offer" when we went by.

Ed didn't get a shenanigans vibe from the owner, though, so the next day while Ed was at work I called the listing realtor. I offered to come down and sign the one-year lease, full price. He told me not to bother, since they already had two offers. Point, Ed.

We decided we didn't want that place anyways. It was weirdly laid out, the countertops were too high, and the guest house had (gasp!) linoleum floors. Eww.

A long and boring story about finding another house goes here, but let's skip to the good part: welcome to our new home. It's two bedrooms with a living room, big office/dining room, and two car detached garage for Rock Band parties. It has a big wrap-around porch in the front and a small porch in the back.


At our going away party, a friend teased Ed that we'd better find a place before he started his new job, because if I went househunting by myself we'd end up with more charm and glass doorknobs than practicality. That's exactly what happened. How do I love thee, little house? One glass doorknob, two glass doorknobs...there's four in the picture below.

There are little glass doorknobs on the built-in bookcases. I kid you not.

And I think the house likes us back - there's a smiley face chalked onto a tree in the backyard.


There's a guest room - come see if the house likes you too!