Our new house
We were in Cape Town last week looking for a new house. After 3 days of driving around looking at places, we finally settled on a house we had seen on day 1 in Claremont. It has 3.5 bedrooms, a study, nice living area, nice bathrooms, small kitchen and small garden. It has wooden floors, nice light rooms and an overall good feel to it. The location is great for a couple reasons:
- Our house is a couple roads away from Jonathan's and Adam's houses so Brad can lift club to Open Voice next year. This is great for the environment, great for the boys and great for me (who gets Telburt a couple days a week)
- At the end of our road is: the Curry Pot (which sells everything from tea masala to a hundred varieties of incense and who knows what else!), 2 pizza places, a chinese takeaway, a juice bar, a great bakery and coffee shop, a bottlestore that closes at 8pm (not that we're big on drinking in our family, but still), and a cute furniture store. Oh and Kenilworth centre is about a 5-10 min walk away.
- There is a play school about 6 houses down the road. Not that we're planning on putting Finley in a play school any time too soon, but its nice that there's one so close.
- And Claremont sounds like a cool place to live from the people we've spoken to so far
We were supposed to take photos of the house the second time we went to look at it but forgot. Watch this space though.
This was taken at the abovementioned furniture store. Finley relaxing in a swinging cane chair. He cried in protest when we had to take him out.
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I am really glad you made this important step, I know it's not that easy to find the right place for it and when you do find it, you always need to bring some improvements. This was my case, our "new" house wasn't that new so we had to make some serious changes for: furniture, double glazing, walls, even roof. I am not sorry for my investment, all those changes were a necessity and now everything is settled as it's supposed to be.
Yeah, you are lucky to love the house. The last time I moved into a new place I was too excited to notice that the place needed serious improvements. I had to get professional help to handle the building and we remodeled it all starting with the bathroom sink and ending with the roof improvements. It does look great now and it feels like my home. I should advise you to do the same, make some changes that will make this house become your home, once it's yours it's not just any building anymore. Congrats!
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