Being special

Ok it has been a long time joke around the house that I am "special". It started about the first time my Mom visited and well you know she does pretty good at the English but sometimes (just like me) she has a Danish word and well have to "search" for the translated word.
So she had the famous statement "yes, Peter has always been special". And well you can see how that turned into "special"...

Now we went to closing and well we did ok on getting the closing costs paid by the seller and our Realtor and broker did really good at using every little bit they could so it's ok... (det er ikke så ringe endda). Anyway they too mentioned "you are kind of special" (again...).

But the good news is that we closed on the house. And just in case you didn't see it previously. Here you can see a video walk through of the house. And you can find a few pics from around the house here and do check out Jacki's blog too ;-)

Update on the house

Today was the day... Home inspection done and now we are just waiting for the result of the radon inspection which takes a couple of days to run.

Just in case you haven't seen it about a million times already here is a shot of the house from the backyard where you can see my new coffee room overlooking the backyard. (The big windows in the center).



Inspections do take a while so while that was ongoing Emma had a great chance to "inspect" the playground :-) and she sure did. The swings, ladders and the slide. Several times... I found that the slide does produce static electricity...



Well this may be a little weird but actually there was a part of the house we hadn't seen earlier since the door was locked and no key to be found. As we were thinking that is just a little extra room in the basement and I got my claim on it to use as a photo studio.
Granted I was wondering how I would be able to fit in but figured that well it's better than nothing and at least the family will have the basic needs covered with kitchen, coffee room, dining room and living room.

Anyway today we got to see it. Through the window I had seen there was some kind of a work bench. I did however not expect to see this one (the drawers probably works better than the ones in the kitchen).



Speaking of kitchen... Looking next to the workbench there is a small kitchen (yep with kitchen sink and all)...



And here is the workbench at the entrance to my room.



Here is a photo of the other end of the room and well with that I figured that it was bigger than I expected.
One thing I noticed was all the duct work going to several spots. Turns out that the previous owner probably had a carpentry shop in there and these are for creating a vacuum to collect saw dust from the various heavy duty machines. That being said there is actually a sub circuit breaker with 100 amps worth of secure power...



So as I thought it was bigger than expected Emma runs off to the other end of the room with a "what's this for dad?". I follow her and well, hmm the room just grew a bit...



Here is the painting room. Complete with ventilation and a door with a air filter and sealers top and bottom... Granted it's not the biggest room but pretty decent size and very unexpected...



Now my big issue is that I have previously done woodworking and do have a few machines sitting around and well being house owner there are lot of wood projects I would like to do. And then this presents itself as the perfect wood working shop in town.
The home inspection guy was very impressed with it and was mentioning how there would be plenty of local people wanting to rent that room since it has a private entrance and all the facilities a wood worker could ever need...

So what happened to my photo studio... ahh choices choices choices. It sure ain't easy but at least we actually got more than we expected!!!

ohh btw. Jacki didn't see it but she has promised this is my room which means she can't take it back. But I guess you don't *really* have to tell her about it ;-)