Our House

Once we decided to sell our condo and buy a house in Ardmore, we began doing research (and by “we” I primarily mean my husband, who can tell you the asking price of any house currently for sale in Ardmore and the selling price of any house that’s sold in the last 3 years.  I’m not kidding; this guy is for real.  He is amazing that way!  I, on the other hand, cannot remember what a house we went into 3 years ago looks like, or for that matter, I sometimes can’t even remember going in the house!).  Back to the point…In addition to doing research, we also began going to Sunday afternoon Open Houses.  While we loved the character and charm of Ardmore houses, we are by no means handy and many of the houses needed quite a bit of work to be livable (due to really yucky bathrooms and/or kitchens) or comfortable (many have only 1 bathroom or outdated kitchens, but I’ll speak much more on this later.)  Quite by accident, we went to an Open House where a developer was showing off his recently redone creation and found out that the house had an extra lot they were willing to sell off separately from the house.  Not such a long story short, we bought it.

We had absolutely the most fun designing and building our home.  Thankfully my husband and I have very similar tastes, so we thoroughly enjoyed picking out all of the materials, paints, and finishes that went into our home.  We knew that we’d probably never have the chance to build in Ardmore again, so I wanted to make sure we built a home that we could grow into once we started a family.  Much more on this later, too…

Everything went very quickly.  After closing on the lot, we got an architect to fine-tune our plans, got 2 bids on our project, chose a builder, and after breaking ground, we moved into our home in less than 3 short months.  After that we had even more fun searching and finding the perfect furniture for each room, and when I walk in the front door each day, I feel a sense of comfort when I see every hand-picked piece lovingly in its place.