For the past two weeks, we have been living in an apartment as we try to find a house to lease. We've looked at 10-12 houses, but we are still looking! Aberdeen has a very limited number of houses available to lease and many are on the market for less than a week! We found several that we liked, but while we waited to hear back about our favorite house, the other two got leased, and we finally found out our favorite was above our housing allowance. Here are just a few pictures of the many things we found while house hunting.
This semi detached house has only one garage, which is the norm for most Aberdeen homes, if they have one at all.
Many have LOTS of windows to let the light in, which is great except in the summer when there is less than 6 hours of darkness!
Some of the amazingly updated kitchens....oh how I would love a kitchen like this!
Double sinks....a rare find!
AMAZING crown molding on a terraced home that is nearly 150 years old! Terraced homes are a bunch of town homes all squeezed together, there are 10-15 on a block all connected.
All homes have radiators here (the long white thing under the window sill).
I don't even remember how many different "coloured" carpets we found! (Should I start spelling words the British way?)
Aberdeen is known as the granite city and many houses are made with granite. The biggest man-made hole in Europe is in Aberdeen where the Rubislaw Quarry was utilized to build most of the stone buildings in the 20th century in Britain.
Many homes have entire rooms full of windows. I guess this way you can enjoy the outdoors, without freezing your behind off!
Many homes have unique and colorful colour schemes in the toilets (what they call bathrooms).
A separate washer and dryer, even if they are small, are quite the luxury from "integrated" washer & dryers, more on that later!
Every home needs a built-in sauna, right?!
Who doesn't need a bidet in their home?
A common sight is having a sink/vanity in bedrooms. I'm not sure why this house had two bedrooms with them though, since there were 2 full baths and 2 half baths.
Heated towels racks, a must in every house we saw!
Every single garage we saw was exclusively used for storage!
a room with all windows -- that is actually what i want!! and I'd take the kitchen too. I have a friend who just moved to Italy with her 3 year old...he thought the bidet was a special sink just for him!
ReplyDeleteWow, Sis, I felt a bit emotional seeing your Houston house for the last time - I can't imagine how you felt! This is the first time I have been able to access your blog - I guess it is a different link - the "first" one didn't work. Also, I've tried to email twice before, to your Yahoo acct., but emails were all returned as "undeliverable". Yes, I now have skype again, and am looking forward to skyping with you! Bummer, a whole shop designated for whisky...
ReplyDeleteLove you - can't wait to hear from you!
Momma