This week, I finally close on our new house

[fuct.]

We sold our old house in late 2019 and couldn't find a suitable replacment. After a year of apartment living, we finally found a house that my wife and I both love.

Specs:
built in the late 80s
4BR, 3 1/2 bath
3350sq ft
heated pool
enclosed patio
detached garage
zoned to some of the top schools in the houston area

This was a custom home made for someone else, so there are some challenges that we have to overcome. making someone elses "dream home" yours isn't going to be easy.

The hilarious outdoor patio area, complete with grill and vent hood( )

Den area #1. I wanted to make this into our living room/den but got outvoted.

I guess this was a formal dining area or something, this is going to be my office:

Living room area. I hate this area. It's kludgie as fuck and i am not in love with it, but i'll make it work.

Master BR

Master bath. for some weird ass reason, there's only one electrical plug in here....

Kids bedrooms both look like this, and are identical:

jack and jill for the kids:

 

[amalgamas]

that's a beautiful house, congrats on getting it.

that vent hood.

 

[amalgamas]

prime target for /r/TVTooHigh

 

[herpes]

this is a r/TvTooHigh gold mine

 

[herpes]

prime target for /r/TVTooHigh

Mother fucker

 

[AndyP]

/r/tvtoohigh

But congrats! Looks like a solid house. WTF @ the indoor patio

 

[AndyP]

God damnit Too late.

 

[amalgamas]

Mother fucker

God damnit Too late.

 

[fuct.]

Now this i thought was neat, a dedicated guest suite seperated on it's own with it's own bath. Its even elevated by a few stais(while cool, it means i can't have a fucking vaccuum robot upstairs that will reach it )

 

[amalgamas]

that his&hers sink arrangement is hilarious to me and you can tell it was done custom, cause a normal builder would have done everything they could to make it symmetrical.

That was totally a "well you're a guy and don't need as much space around your sink" type thinking when designing.

 

[amalgamas]

Now this i thought was neat, a dedicated guest suite seperated on it's own with it's own bath. Its even elevated by a few stais(while cool, it means i can't have a fucking vaccuum robot upstairs that will reach it )

something like that is usually called the Mother-in-Law suite in my experience.

DON'T WANT THAT OLD BAT TO NEED TO INTERACT WITH THE REST OF THE HOUSE!

and the solution is just to get another robot vac, can never have too many.

 

[nosaj]

Where is the sign up list to stay in the guest room.

 

[fuct.]

that his&hers sink arrangement is hilarious to me and you can tell it was done custom, cause a normal builder would have done everything they could to make it symmetrical.

That was totally a "well you're a guy and don't need as much space around your sink" type thinking when designing.

we had to get rid of our electric toothbrushes and switch to battery ones because there's no goddamn plugs

 

[Yeahdoug]

That’s a big pool. Very nice.

 

[whatever]

we had to get rid of our electric toothbrushes and switch to battery ones because there's no goddamn plugs

put plugs in?

 

[Joesbe]

we had to get rid of our electric toothbrushes and switch to battery ones because there's no goddamn plugs

Are there plugs in the vanities, sometimes they did shit like that back in the day.

 

[whatever]

that bathtub is amazingly terrible

 

[amalgamas]

we had to get rid of our electric toothbrushes and switch to battery ones because there's no goddamn plugs

Did the builder just not want to invest in the MASSIVE effort and time to install some GFCI plugs?

 

[fuct.]

That’s a big pool. Very nice.

Heated too

 

[Leonard Washington]

That would be 1.5 million dollars here guessing it’s like 400-500k in tx

 

[fuct.]

Did the builder just not want to invest in the MASSIVE effort and time to install some GFCI plugs?

apparently.

also one side of the bathroom is "distressed" the other is just painted

got a lot of work ahead of me.

 

[herpes]

we had to get rid of our electric toothbrushes and switch to battery ones because there's no goddamn plugs

Umm what? You must have summer poverty ass brushes if they need to be plugged in after every use...

My sonicare lasts like two weeks

 

[deaddweeb]

Making the den/living room would be much better than that spot next to the kitchen. I feel ya on that one.

 

[lawnboy]

Pics of the detached garage? I am struggling to find a place that either has one or had room for me to build one around here

 

[fuct.]

Pics of the detached garage? I am struggling to find a place that either has one or had room for me to build one around here

for some wierd ass reson the selling realtor too NO pictures of the garage.

i guess it's not *technically* detached, because it shares the same roof as the house, but in my old house the garage was PART of the house.