An Outdoor Tour Of The New House

As is the tradition, each year we like to take a video camera and walk around the house to capture what is been done outside (and what is still desperately waiting to be tackled – which is nearly everything at our new house). You can see last year’s here, and the one from 2011 here. And by “we take a video camera” I mean “John takes a video camera” because I have been banned from holding any sort of recording device since I tend to Blair Witch everyone (yup, it is a verb when I do it).

Sufficient jibber jabber. Let us walk around the house together:

Hopefully that little video answers the “what is going on outside?” questions from you folks and gives you a better lay of the land. As for our outdoor plans, there are a bunch of them listed here (they are not at all fleshed out, but we will research/plan/think through each one as we get to it).

And since a not-in fact-to-scale lot sketch has also become a tradition of ours, here is one of those for our new house:

The funny thing about our new house is certainly how the lot is oriented (since we are on the end of a cul-de-sac, we describe our land sort of like a baseball diamond) but it is also fairly amusing to us that all three of our houses have had truly similar lot sizes. They’ve all been “nearly an acre” – but our first lot was long and skinny…

… while the second one was sort of square-ish (this one’s truly not to scale since the house looks as big as a Target shopping center).

The other funny comparison for us is digesting that our last house and this house were nearly exactly the same square footage (they are within 60 square feet of each other) yet the lot simply looks so distinct from the outside. We are used to having a fairly low-lying house that nearly blends in with the woods. But instead of an 1,000 square foot addition that is hiding off the back of the house (which was the way our second house was set up), the new house has a second floor that is in plain sight from the street, which makes it look a lot bigger and stand out a lot more from the curb.

One other sort of cool, full-circle moment was gaining a double garage. We had one at our first house, and of course had the carport in our last house, but it is truly pleasant to go back to a two car garage – simply so that John’s workshop can be right off of the house (instead of walking around the back of our second house and down the exterior stairs into a separate entry basement).

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