Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It’s incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.
I’m grateful the previous owners relationship broke down and he was forced to sell the house after only living in it for 8 months. I’m grateful to the original owner for being a stonemason and doing beautiful stonework around the yard with obviously hand picked stones including quartz crystals and fossil rocks hidden around.
The two mirrors(2m x 1.5m) installed in the exposed brick, narrow, central room of the house, make such a massive difference to the amount of light available from the skylight, and give a feeling of extra roominess.
One mirror was down for the day during an AC install, and the feeling in the space was noticeably more closed-in.
The owner we bought from had been divorced and was so depressed he neglected the yard and house. I am grateful they didn’t change the insane layout, so it didn’t sell, because apparently nobody else saw the potential - we changed it when we moved in, and dealt with the yard, once the bamboo was out (that was a struggle) it was huge, and while house is not fancy and will doubtless be a lifelong project it is so nice now for us, and getting better all the time and I love the basic layout of it now.
left a pullup bar in the garage, use it pretty often
How the fuck do yall afford houses?
I got lucky on the fact that I’m old now so I was able to buy a house in 2014 with a low interest rate. I also live in a low cost of living area, my mortgage, which includes property taxes and house insurance is $1k/mo. The majority is that goes to taxes and insurance, interest is about $60/mo. I have 5 more years on the 15 yr mortgage. I’ve gotten lucky that we’ve not had to have any major repairs in the past ten years, but I was looking for houses that were who built with good roofing and hvac systems since those are the two killers. The house has a lot of dated aesthetics from every decade from the sixties onwards, but that stuff is easy and cheap, plus you’re probably going to do that kind of stuff anyway.
In my previous house, the previous owners left a folder with information about various known quirks, which came in handy. They also left a manuals for things like the stove and fireplace, as well as contact info for contractors they had used over the years. It ended up being a sort of owner’s manual for the house that we really appreciated. We did the same when we moved out.
My current house… There’s an under-cabinet CD player/radio in the kitchen that I almost never use, and the previous owners left the soundtrack to the Trolls movie in it, so I guess there’s that?
BECAUSE SINGING KILLED MY GRANDMA OKAY
They had me. Right now I’m back at my parents’ house.
Kept the left over floor tiles. Nearly 30 years later I needed to replace one, had a box ready to go.
Remember folks, you’re supposed to leave extra shit like this behind for exactly this reason
Some day those VGA cables will be needed
And the pouch with the CDs I’ve burnt with my favourite albums from 2010 that I’ll play in a truck I’ll steal once the zombie apocalypse starts
In the living room they routed audio cables through the walls for a surround sound system
Patched CAT6 cable to nearly every room in the house. WIFI is good these days but still cant compete with good ol ethernet.
They planted two plum trees and one cherry tree. I picked so many plums this year. Still have a bunch on the freezer ready to go in pies. Made two batches of slivovice moonshine back in the fall just so they wouldn’t go to waste.
Kitchen faucet is hands free if you put batteries in a thing under the sink. I don’t think the last people used it because it didn’t have batteries when we moved in. Works great though, turning a faucet on and off without touching it is really convenient when your hands are dirty.
How long do the batteries last?
Not sure yet, more than 1 year at least. It takes AAs so they are easy enough to replace.
Nice I thought it was going to be less then a year. I also had the thought of just plugging into the garbage disposal outlet but that might take the redneck engineering to accomplish.
Fuck if I know. These people were idiots and did so many stupid things
I suffer with you. This is my first place so I didn’t have as good an eye of what to look out for. Now after having lived in this place for a while I realize the previous owner took a lot of shortcuts and did a really crappy “remodel” job.
I’m pretty sure my house got flipped by some DIY morons
Hello fellow sufferer. May your future surprises be boring.
As a kid we moved into a house in the middle of winter, the previous owner had left the fire ready to go, including matches and a couple days worth of wood.
I love the battery powered blinds on the master bedroom. I can control them with an app (1000+ downloads on google play lol) or remote control.
