Posted by Janet.
Aug
15
Posted by Janet.
Our New Home
We landed in Portland June 4th with a big goal: buy a home. Yesterday it was finalized!
We are the very proud owners of a 1911 craftsman home in northeast Portland.
A very empty home we now get to decorate and furnish. I’ll be honest.. it seems really daunting. I have been tearing pages from magazines and saving images off the web for decorating inspiration for many months. But I have no idea where to start on my own.
We named our home Bauhaus! For more photos click the pic above. Feel free to share ideas on colors! I think I want to paint the kitchen a yummy green but beyond that not sure what to keep or paint over yet.
Tomorrow the POD gets dropped off. If you are going to have a POD parked on a Portland street you have to get a permit, by the way. $20 and you can only have it parked there for two weeks.
I want to give a plug to the team that made our home buying process go so smoothly. Kudos to our amazingly patient and helpful Realtor Deb Counts-Tabor with Oregon Realty and savvy broker Michael Sullivan with Capital M Lending. And thanks to all our friends (old and new!!) and family for tips and support along the way.
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What a great surprise, discovering your blog this morning! Woke up early, and was typing in various searches, relocating to portland, moving to portland, etc, and found you. My husbalnd & I are from (and still in) Houston, and are starting to plan a move to Portland either next summer or the summer after that. We’re dragging our feet only because of the high unemployment rate in Oregon right now (and rather skewed housing prices, at least compared to what we’re used to!). Between selling our current home at a decent price, finding one (willing to rent for first year) at a decent price, and finding three decent jobs (our 24-yr-old son wants to come along when we make the move) right away, we don’t want to make a horrible financial mistake and move without considering the timing of everything. Hope you continue to update this blog as you continue to explore Portland, and all its’ ups and downs. P.S. Love the pictures of the new house!