And the winner is....

[oceansedge]

It was a very tight two horse race in the end...

Initially we emailed our agent that we wanted to pursue an offer on the Tidd's Lane property. The house was done - move in ready, James really like the feel of the village and the area, the gardens are nicely pretty, as a number of people pointed out - it really had all the appearances of being the

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[dandelion_diva]

I do love that house. I hope it works out beautifully for you.

Also, yay camper! :)

[oceansedge]

it did tug our heart strings

the camper was a real find and going to bring us years of joy and fun - and we really wouldn't have done it if we hadn't convinced ourselves we NEEDED it.

So it's a win all around.

[acelightning]

Corberries is a very pretty house. But... seven bedrooms, and one bathroom?

[oceansedge]

heh... but there are 16 acres of woods '< /sarcasm >

Honestly, it's the quirks like that that make it so attractive to us - if the house were 'done' it would have 2.5 or 3.5 bathrooms. It needs two more upstairs, an ensuite, and a main bath, the master needs more closet space... depending on the layout, we'll lose 1 or two bedrooms and it will STILL be a 5 bedroom house - with a glorious master suite, and a stunning main bath.

Sure, it's a lot of work - but unlike here in Seal Cove, there'll be no time limit or gun to our heads to get it done, we can take the time to do it the way we want it. Which is what we wanted in a house all along - a canvas on which to paint our vision of the glorious country home :)

'never pay for someone else's renovations'

[acelightning]

I'd have to see the floor plans, but you ought to be able to make one bedroom into two generous baths, by creatively rearranging doors - e.g., take a bedroom that shares an interior wall with the master bedroom, and cut a door through that wall, and use that half of the room for the ensuite bath; partition the room so the other half, with the existing door onto the corridor, becomes another bathroom with general access. Or take the half that has the corridor door and make that the ensuite - doors from both master bedroom and corridor - and make the other half a walk-in closet. Then you'd have to divide up another bedroom to make more bathrooms, but so what? ;-)

I really like the way the bump-outs give the impression of a castle...

[oceansedge]

yep that's kinda what we figured - lose one bedroom to walk in closet/ensuite for the master, and another one to a main bath set up in such a way that if we ever did want to sell it it could be turned into two bathrooms - i.e. for the bed and breakfast market.

That still leaves 4 bedrooms upstairs and one downstairs (which most likely we'll be using as our office space)

[weyrdbird]

This doesn't mean anything, but by the strangest coincedence I was listening to music and at the exact moment I read about which house you guys really picked the singing portion of Johnny and June singing "This Train Is Bound For Glory" from Bootleg IV began. :D

Just sayin'.

[oceansedge]

thank you ... I think that very encouraging

[nekura_ca]

Very nice. It definitely looks like an adventure ^_^ I liked that one best, too. Hope everything works out smoothly.

[oceansedge]

I think we've taken the Chinese blessing/curse "May you live in interesting times" and made it a motto :)

"I don't know, whatssa motto with you?" < /groucho cigar >

I don't expect anything is going to go smoothly - we'd be bored with smoothly - and there'd be no blogging in that. :)

[ccdesan]

I am well and truly jealous. Hope everything works out just right.

[oceansedge]

thank you ... it's gonna be fun ... I think