I bought a house. I turned 30 and bought a house. It’s a ginormous house with a big piece of land. I bought it with my partner of 10 years and our close friends who are married. Did I mention it was big? It’s got 5 proper bedrooms, a front entry room/library, a garage, a breezeway, two unfinished basement rooms, a large kitchen and dining/living area, a detached garage/studio building that’s about 560 ft2 and all of this lives on .64 acres of land with mature fruit trees, an enormous organic garden (organic for the last 60 years), berries (black, logan, rasp, straw), a chicken coop, lots of herbs, etc, etc, etc. It’s huge. We bought it knowing it was a bit of a fixer-upper with updates needed more than real fixes.

Besides painting, we plan on greening it up while we work on it. Already, we’ve updated the plumbing from old galvanized plumbing to brand-new PEX throughout the house and also from the service. We’ll be updating the OLD appliances to new energy star appliances. We’ll also be fixing the gutter system and putting in a decent rain barrel system to water the enormous garden. Depending on how much money we have left over, we may install solar hot water heating (to help offset the cost of all of that washing I do for massage school). And other projects down the road.

I’ll post a link to the blog for the house as soon as it’s up. That’s where we’ll post about home improvement projects, living in an intentional community, and all the other fun stuff involved with owning this property. In the meantime, I need to find where all the boxes of my shit are in the towers of boxes around the house.

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