A House With Two And A Half What?
My house is 40 years old. We’ve live here for about 15 years now. The house originally belonged to my grandparents. My grandma had some strange thoughts in her head when they had this house built. As much as I love this house, it is a little odd. Take the bedrooms, for instance.
I have two and a half bedrooms. Yes that’s bedrooms, not bathrooms. Grandma only wanted two bedrooms but my Mom somehow managed to get her to add a third. Problem is, Grandma chopped a huge laundry room in half to do it. My bedroom is about 12×15. CJ’s bedroom is about 12×12. TJ’s room is about 10×8 - only big enough to fit his bed and entertainment center. (Check out my Walmart Your Zone Teen Bedroom Makeover video and you’ll see how small it is, which is why I call it a half bedroom.) The boy can’t even keep his clothes in his bedroom, they’re on shelves in the hall.
When the builder built this house he used odd sized windows. Guess who has to deal with that now? That’s right, we do. When we had to replace a wall in my bedroom due to termite damage we learned that we needed custom replacement windows - the standard size replacement windows didn’t fit in the hole. Thankfully I had a very capable person doing the work that was able to take care of that problem.
Indoor work is unavoidable at times but I don’t like it - it’s noisy and dusty. Thankfully, our next project, hopefully in the spring if RB finds work by then, won’t be an indoor one. We’ll be getting some home remodeling estimates because we desperately need gutters. Why do we desperately need them? Because we don’t have any. (That’s another story.)
Filed Under: Family • House and home • This and That
It was the only home ever built for her–the Great Depression made her very economical and her minor one changed her thinking.