house

How big of a house is too big? 

We found a house that may be perfect but it may be too big.  I spent a while and drew up floor plans just so I could visually wrap my head around how the house works.  It needs a bunch of work - new floors and paint through out are a definite.  I told Mark we can have painting parties.  Just invite people over, feed them, and let them paint a room any color they want.  There are a lot of rooms.  By my count, there are 25 rooms/hallways that can be painted.  Obviously, not ALL of them would need to be done but this is why I wouldn't care what colors they are.

It definitely needs a new kitchen and at least 2 new bathrooms.  One bathroom has a pink tub that is a step up (I don't get it) and the other bathroom has a neon yellow toilet.  The other 2 bathrooms are okay.

The nice part is that we could totally convert the huge den into our bedroom for now while we fixed up the second floor bedrooms.  I need to take measurements and see if it's even possible to make the 2 upstairs bedrooms and sitting area into 3 bedrooms with one being big enough to fit all of our furniture.  I wouldn't want to live in the den forever because it would be like a 4 minute walk to the upstairs bedrooms.  Yes, it's that weird and cockamamy looking.  But, it could be really nice.. in time. with work. and lots of painting.  

  I have to figure out a way to upload my terribly fantastic mspaint floor plans but I'm heading out to meet my sister for lunch so I'll do that later.

floor plan

I uploaded my terribly drawn, not at all to scale, floor plans. 

Right this way...

There's a "key" there to exlain the doodles.  Nothing is to scale.  It probably also should have some turned around but this is how my head works. 

Good luck trying to make any sense of them whatsoever.  At least I'll have this floor plan to look back on in the future and laugh. 

I'm still not sure about the potential vs monstrosity ratio.  We need a pro and con list. 

We might be leaning towards a "No" tonight.  We stopped by the in-laws quickly today and tried to explain the house and how it works.  I even explained my floor plans and then Mark showed his dad the pictures and I had to re-explain those.  His dad was very wishy washy also about it.  Again, could be fantastic and a great opportunity (with the apartment especially) but could just be a sink hole for money and time. 

The basement "apartment" is definitely not legal and I don't think it can be made legal because it's a basement even though it has outside entrances.  So I wouldn't count or think about renting that.  The three floor one I'd like to make legal if it's not already.