Finally hopefully some pics

[drmitch]

Nice home Pete! Glad you`ve got settled. Now to enjoy the basement.

 

[swestoyz]

Nice place you've got there Pete! I am quite envious of that tiled bathroom - holly cow! You also have a nice work shop area already assembled which looks to already have come in handy.

Ben

 

[rickr]

Looks like you have a great place Pete! Congratulations on your new home. Love the fireplace, workshop, basement,kitchen, and of course the tile floor in the bathroom!

I would love to relocate someday myself, but would absoulutly hate to have to move all my stuff. Sometimes I think the only way for me would be for my house to burn down.
Then I would not have to pack. <:

 

[petek]

Now Rick I can hardly see you wanting to move. You're place is beautiful, you have that oversized yard too which is a huge plus. I looked at some much larger and fancier houses than this one for around the same money but not one of them had a comparable yard and that was a major deciding factor in us buying this one.

 

[rickr]

Pete, a 120 year old house is a lot of work to take care of. And I hate being cooped up in a house all winter. Summer is too short here in the Mid-Worst. It sucks.

This house is really the only home I have ever known. And I have a good job here, and some great friends. But I will not stay here forever, in spite of all that.

My dream is to live near the ocean someday, no matter how long it takes me to get there.
And in a smaller, more "maintenance free" type house. This house and the Mid-West are just way too far from there.

I do love your house Pete. Looks like it was well cared for and pampered since it was built.

 

[petek]

Well I hope you get your dream someday. Our place out there in the country was sort of a dream and granted it was nice other than the winters, we spent a long time landscaping it. But it was beginning to get a bit wearing the last few years looking after that much even with all the big equipment. Even moreso when I was no longer working and had all the time in the world, the less I wanted to do with it so I figure this place is a good compromise or so I hope. The locations not bad, very central to everywhere, it's out of any known snowbelts and we're only a few blocks away from the beaches on Lake Huron which is as close to the ocean you're going to get without actually being near the ocean.

 

[rickr]

That sounds just wonderful Pete! The Great Lakes are almost like the ocean. As close to it as you can get in North America anyway.

You say your old place was starting to wear on you, and that is how I feel about my house right now. Have lived here going on 28 years, and am getting tired of the same old walls, and the extra work it takes to live here. At some point I have to ask myself, do I own the house, or does it own me? *grin*

 

[perc-o-prince]

Pete, What a great house!!

The fireplace is spectacular. The tile is so elegant!!

I'm green...I want a workshop like yours

I hope that you and your other half enjoy MANY years of health, laughter and happieness in your new love nest

Rich

 

[veg-o-matic]

Oooh, love the new house, Petey! Those tiles around the fireplace are fabboo.

More pics, please.

I'm also really liking that all-refrigerator. I didn't think they still made them. I already have a pretty big freezer, so I'd rather have an all-fridge than the side-by-side I have. I'd miss the ice through the door, but I could live with that. Any idea where it was bought?

And don't say Eatons!

veg

 

[petek]

Veg, they bought the fridge locally at a small appliance store about 1/4 mile up the road. Wasn't cheap either which surprised me. It was close to $900 after taxes considering you can some fridge freezer combo's for less than that and lower end sxs starting about that price range in Canada anyways, where prices are always a little, sometimes a lot, higher than the equivalant US price depending on what it is. On top of that the Danby name/products were always a somewhat "low cost" brand, like Goldstar and Samsung were but seem to be repositioning themselves on a higher plateau.
It's a nice little appliance store, oddly located in a small residential area shopping center but he carries nice stuff. Mostly WP/KA from tol to bol and a smattering of Miele along with some LG tv's and a periphery of fancy BBQ's.

 

[air-waycharlie]

Pete

All the pictures are fabulous and the line up of vacuums even more fabulous!

However, there is not one bottle of wine in that fridge! Do I need to round up Ida so we can send you a few?

Seasons Greetings!

Helen

 

[petek]

Oh don't get me going on wine. A number of years ago my other half finally, finally after all my bugging, took up a hobby, wine-making. He bought all the equipment, those big glass bottles, bottle heaters, sterilizers blah blah blah. I'd watch and taste sometimes as he bottled dozens and dozens of bottles, and it wasn't half bad actually. They were all supposedly kept on wine racks in the room under the stairs. Not being one to tipple at home all that much myself there was a day came where I went down to his "cellar" to retrieve a bottle, to find it full of now empty bottles. I couldn't believe it.. all gone, drank, in a matter of weeks. Well anyways, that was the end of his wine making hobby. Had no choice really since I smashed those big glass wine making bottles LOL
Not to worry,, if'n when you get here I'll got to the wine store and buy a nice 4 litre box with spigot and put it in the fridge for ya. Top shelf,, in the fridge, not the wine.. LOL