October 2010 Weddings
Nukke
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The house(s) you grew up in
We were all posting about our dream homes below. How much of an influence on your dream home was your family home? Tell us about your family home(s), and PIP if you can.
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Re: The house(s) you grew up in
Haha, the few things that now looking back on we wonder how we survived from my childhood home:
-No finish shower. Our shower was in our un-finished basement and essentially a shower head over a drain in our cement wall/floored laundry room. There was a shower curtain, but otherwise no door/privacy from someone entering the basement.
-We had one bathroom for 5 people (2 adults, 2 kids and one teenager), which was about 8'x6' and had a (sweet) clawed tub. B/c of our scary basement I took baths until I was in 9th grade.
So, those are things I know I don't want :O)
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OH LORD! My childhood home is the smallest house ever (maybe even smaller than the little house on the prairie. lol).
I don't have a picture of it, but as all of the houses in Oklahoma County are listed online, I'll go find a picture now.
Found them!
This is from the year my parents movied out of this house. They had lived there since right before I turned 2. This photos is from 2005.
House 2005 by Tisha_McFluffy, on Flickr
And this is the photo from 2009.
House 2009 by Tisha_McFluffy, on Flickr
Please note that the 2009 picture still has the weird greenery around the door that my mom had up there. lol
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
As is mine... please explain this to me!
Wait - now that I think about it, I wonder if it's similar to what we call a "cellar" here in Oklahoma? Like, where we go when the tornado comes?
Because we don't (usually) have basements in Oklahoma (water table or whatever, plus the hard ground I think). But we do have storm cellars.
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
What are these "basements" and "cellars" you speak of? :-P
Being right at (or below) sea level, we don't have those here. We can only go up, so attics it is.
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That was the only thing that came to my mind as well... like in the movies, where people had to go out side, through wooden doors in the ground to get to the cellar?
Here in GA, we have regular 'ole basements (in fact, I live in one - a basement apartment lol)
Haha! Same here!
Megan & Chris
This is the house I grew up in. Forgive the quality, it's a Google maps screen print (as my family doesn't live there anymore). The tree was about half the size. Now you can hardly see the house. But isn't that a fine garage? LOL!
This is where my family lived (picture from Google maps) from my 2nd grade through college. It was much prettier when we lived there because my parents both have amazing green thumbs, so the landscaping was beautiful:
The room with the stained glass windows on the left side of the house was my room after my sister left for college...it included the round part of the house, so I experimented with putting different pieces of furniture in there...my bed, a desk, my vanity, etc. The downstairs part of that was my parents' tub, which was huge!
It had a circle driveway and a giant island in the kitchen, both of which I would love to have if we ever build our own house.
Megan & Chris
Strangely enough I actually rent the condo that I grew up in from my mom. Our hopes are to buy it soon. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths with 2 walk in closets in the upsatirs bedrooms. It was so cool when I was young to have my own bathroom and walkin closet!
Megan, that house is freaking gorgeous! I am going to steal it and repost it in the dream house post!
I lived in six different houses growing up. We travelled a lot, but settled back in Canada when I was 7. Then we lived in just two houses. My parents had a thing for victorian houses, and liked to buy the biggest dump on the block, spend years fixing it up, and then they'd get bored. This is the house I lived in from when I was 13 until I was 17. We weren't quite finished painting the trim yet.
My parents still live there. I think they'll move again in a few years though. They had to rip this farmhouse back to the studs to fix it up. It was in such bad shape. My dad recreated that wrap-around porch from photos of the old one taken in 1908, and some old trim we found in the barn. We cut down some trees on the property for the boards, and dad bought himself two fancy lathes to do the carpenter's lace. Funny enough, neither my brother nor I want this house when our parents pass. It looks nice now, but when we lived there it was a construction zone. There are old wood floors throughout the entire house (no carpet anywhere) and we used to have to wash those by hand, including all the wooden banisters and my mum's numerous wooden antiques. Because of this insane amount of housework I always had to deal with growing up, I've always wanted a small house.
Living in homes like this did make me appreciate older homes, though, and I do want one some day. Just a nice little one.
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
Thank you! My parents got some amazing deal on it during the oil bust here in Houston during the 80's. It was a foreclosure and in terrible condition when they bought it, so they spent quite a bit of time fixing it up before we could even think about moving in.
I do miss it, but I'm glad they moved where they did. They have five acres now, and love being out there taking care of it and spending time in it. I'm glad Carter will have such a cool place (pond stocked with fish that they feed, horses next door, etc.) to spend time at. My nephew LOVES coming to Texas to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house!
Nukke - I agree with Tisha - that house is beautiful!!! I love the wrap around porch!
Megan & Chris