House

Tue 2 August 2005 6:10pm by
Filed under: Home life 

I just bought one.

It’s walking distance to a zone 1 station and a great shopping strip (supermarket, library, coffee shops).

There’s ways to improve it, but it’s really lovely and very liveable even as-is. It’s art-deco style, 1930-ish.

Two words: central heating / dish washer. Argh wait, is that four words?

It’s on a subdivided block, but with a reasonable amount of garden left both at the front and back. So I won’t slave over it every weekend, and it was affordable for me.

Moving day will be in October.

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33 comments on House

  1. beth on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 6:50 pm

    2. Oh wow! A house in Zone One! (People unfamiliar with Melbourne probably won’t realise how good this is – but believe me, it’s good!) Congratulations! Living one station into Zone Two has made me further appreciate my old Zone One address.

  2. Les on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 6:55 pm

    3. Congratulations! It sounds ideal. I just hope you didn’t have to sell your soul to the devil to afford the mortgage!

    Which map of the Melways are you on now?

  3. Suzie on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 8:01 pm

    4. Well done, I hope it is everything you want.

  4. Andrew on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 9:24 pm

    5. Great news Daniel. Congratulations.

  5. Grey on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 9:34 pm

    6. Congratulations Daniel!

  6. Rob on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 11:23 pm

    7. Brilliant! Zone one, central heating & dishwasher. Is that the three most important checkboxes checked? Congrats!

  7. Mitch on Tue, 2nd Aug 2005 11:26 pm

    8. Congrats!

  8. Peter on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 12:31 am

    9. Sounds like quite a find. Hope there aren’t any nasty surprises in store. Good luck with it.

  9. Ron on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 3:24 am

    10. Congratulations Daniel! Move-in in October? Can you have a celebration now and a housewarming then?

  10. Toria on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 4:00 am

    11. Congrats and looking forward to seeing pix of it! Enjoy.

  11. Jay on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 7:50 am

    12. Here I am doing “extensive” legwork for a blog post about dear Australia, and wouldn’t you know you come up pretty highly in the search standings.
    Congrats on the house – I am such a nerd, but I absolutely love moving, especially the packing and unpacking!

  12. Rae on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 8:52 am

    13. Excellent! Wonderful news! Congrats!!!

  13. Richard on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 8:59 am

    14. Where about’s in zone one? Congrats and let us know when the “Open Day for everyone who reads my blog” is!

  14. Ren on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 10:37 am

    15. Congrats!!!

  15. Frank on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 10:51 am

    16. MrLefty’s going to be jealous of the zone one aspect.
    Congratulations.

  16. Lyn on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 10:57 am

    17. Congratulations Daniel. I am house hunting too and know what you have been through. Trust it is well worth all the effort.

  17. Peter on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 11:33 am

    18. Well done. Perseverence has paid off!

    Les: It’s in a great location, but regrettably it slid off ‘our page’ by about >||

  18. John Carney on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 3:41 pm

    19. Congratulations.

  19. Greg on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 10:42 pm

    20. Congrats!

  20. vaughan on Wed, 3rd Aug 2005 11:22 pm

    21. Well done. So which map are you on now? Is it out past the tram tracks?

  21. Ads on Thu, 4th Aug 2005 1:02 pm

    22. Congrats Daniel. I know you’ve been looking for ages!

  22. Pete on Thu, 4th Aug 2005 7:03 pm

    23. Welcome to the wonderful world of house ownership. Hope it’s everything you wanted.

    You kept that very quiet this time, worried talking on your diary might jinx the deal?

  23. Somebody in the WWW on Thu, 4th Aug 2005 7:16 pm

    24. What zone 1 station are you near?

  24. Daniel on Fri, 5th Aug 2005 6:05 pm

    25. Thanks all. I’ll post more details soon.

  25. Bob on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 1:05 am

    26. Congratulations Daniel!!!!! I know you have been looking a long time, and now you finally have your own place, way cool!

  26. kate Bytheway on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 6:41 am

    27. well done and about time too!
    where’s the pictures of it then?

  27. Randall on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 8:30 am

    28. Good on you Daniel. As someone who has read for it seems like years your attempts to get into the housing market, it is pleasing to see you finally get to have a huge mortgage! I agree on the comment above about keeping it quiet – probably the best way to do it.

    Congratulations!

  28. Rachel D on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 1:39 pm

    29. Cant wait to see piccies of your Dishwasher – have been in my own home for 3 years and am dying for a dishwasher. PS congrats on finding a place that you can settle down in and get your free time back from the endless round of searching.

  29. Dave Helmold on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 2:02 pm

    30. GREAT!!! So where are the pictures??? It sounds good and I know you’ve been looking a long time…

    Dave

  30. Archie on Tue, 9th Aug 2005 2:03 pm

    31. Ditto everyone else!! (is this the most comments ever?)

    I think you should keep track of every time you do a drive/walk-by between now and settlement – it seems you can never do it too much :-)

  31. Miss Trish on Wed, 10th Aug 2005 10:49 am

    32. I’m just catching up …
    YAY!!! Congrats! – v. pleased for you that you’ve finally found a place to eventually call your own.

  32. David on Thu, 11th Aug 2005 11:29 am

    33. Congrats Daniel – well done!!

  33. Josh Parris on Wed, 17th Aug 2005 9:42 pm

    34. Oh, wow! Throw as much stuff away as you can now, all the better for moving…