Hello, New House

Sagan saying "Hello, New House" to our new home!

Well, we did it. We found an old house, fell in love with it, and bought it.

Over the past few months, we started feeling the itch to move. I am a creature of habit. Major change scares me. I can't help it! So when we started talking about listing the house and started looking around at older houses - completely different from where we were living - it freaked me out a little bit.

We toyed with the idea of moving to Paducah. We even met with a realtor there and toured some homes. But nothing felt right.

One afternoon, we were coming home from Nashville when I saw a post on Facebook about a house for sale closer to downtown Murray. We drove by it and didn't like the location among businesses, then turned down Olive Street. And slammed on the brakes when we saw a For Sale by Owner sign in the yard of an older home. The house was pretty. It had potential. I took a quick pic of the sign and we headed on home.

I got up the nerve to call the number on the sign that afternoon, and we scheduled a showing for the next day. On the drive over to the house, David and I talked about how we probably shouldn't buy a house right now, and we agreed that we hoped we hated the house once we saw the inside, feeling the same way about it as we did about the houses in Paducah. We decided that if that was the case, we were going to halt our house hunt.

And here we are, a few months later, owners of the olive house on Olive. We loved the house. The original wood floors, the updated kitchen, the staircase, the tall ceilings, the fireplaces...it just felt right.

We have big plans for this house. We have a lot to get used to with this house. We're going to have to exercise some patience (should be fairly difficult for both of us). But it is exciting. Hello, Olive Street!