Farm 20 and the Glasco Cottage
Pics worth a thousand words.
Frustratingly, these pics are already long out of date. lot's of progress.
Floors acclimating.
Ground floor build out.
Future bath.
Bedroom.
Upstairs foyer.
Farm 20
With some vibrant colors.
Mudroom and closets.
Media room / den/study/ bedroom #4.
Kitchen, dining, living room.
Pojab. Pimped out japanese american bath.
Master bedroom
Car barn.
Green house off the end.
Farm 19 - SOLD
Like I was saying, we have a few closings this month - with another happening last Week. This was the first time we built this version of this beauty and it turned out perfect.
2 metro lawyers - one specializing in books, one focused on commercial real estate.
Regrettably, with the weather crappy I wasn't able to grab any final interior photos cause I guess the folks had a uhaul trailer with them at closing cause when I popped in the next morning, the place was partially furnished.
But, here's the narrative - 3 beds, one on the first floor, 2 full baths, 1600 sq ft, Narrowsburg, NY, 10 acres, under $400k.
Just a really great house, awesome floor plan, lots of perfect product and color selections - another for the Sold column.
Only real question as Lucas and get ready to head to southeast PA for the long holiday is which books on tape to listen to - I was listening to WAR about some soldiers in Afghanistan, which I think the movie Restrepo was based on, but that has too many swear words that Lucas now picks up on - so I'm town between a history of Genghis Khan or a history of the feud between Carnegie and Frick in the late 1800's after the infamous Homestead steel strike, named, Meet You in Hell.
Saugerties, Lucas and Hudson
What a gorgeous weekend we just had up and down the Hudson Valley and beyond. Lucas and I made the most of it, hitting Hunter, Saugerties and Hudson over the weekend before heading back through Woodstock and then Stone Ridge this morning.
That's me on the right, and that's actually a computer case not a fanny pack I'm carrying.
Here's a guy named Chad that it posted up in the tiny bathroom at Love Bites, a local hole in the wall restaurant in downtown Saugerties.
Here's Saugerties in the early morning hours. My apartment up there gets great morning light.
Lucas cooling it after a long day of exploring in his glow in the dark skeleton shirt.
Saugerties has a great local independent bookstore on the corner of Partition and Main. They got toys and books and every once in a while a yummy mummy.
In Hudson, I picked up on an inadvertent orange theme that we have going - between his sweater, the bricks, his pants and paint.
Airplanes hanging from a wire.
It was a big weekend for my typewriter collection, finding two good ones in Hudson and then Joan who does the books and more found one at her parent's home in the Rockaways (which was badly damaged). I've been collecting these bad boys since 1998, have about 30 of them. Kind of annoying that now typewriters are hip, since it drives up the prices (used to be no one wanted them) and makes them harder to find. My only rule is I can't buy them online - too easy. Have to scout them out, or have them given to me (hint, hint, Xmas ideas!!)
Just minding my own business when I came across this common country scene.
Important pieces of paper
Building a house is tough. Everything about it - finding the land, being sure the land is what you think it is, designing a house, selling that concept to someone, compiling all the info for the build permit, going through 6 months of trials and tribulations, inspections and appraisals, and finally reaching the finish line and needing that final piece of paper, the Certificate of Occupancy.
Now, imagine doing that in 6 different towns with 6 different processes and 6 different inspectors and 6 different set of rules, where the minorest infraction can set you back time and money bigtime.
They are such innocent pieces of paper -
The unassuming building permit -
And the little more sexed up Certificate of Occupancy. 2 pieces of paper that mark the beginning and the end of the road of home building.
Had a closing yesterday on Farm 19, a closing tomorrow on Cottage 39 and Farm 21 next week or the next.
Breaking ground on now 4 new ones right after Thanksgiving.
