[Magdalen] Feeling very grown-up

[Marion Thompson]

Beyond the totally unacceptable dump, any easily do-able suggestions as 
to where the mahogany may go ?  My agent in PH, who was in antiques for 
20 years before housing, just says quietly that nobody wants this sort 
of thing nowadays.  Just one of the practical problems that loom.

Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....

On 6/27/2015 10:55 PM, Molly Wolfmama wrote:
> Shed the mahogany! IKEA is your friend.  Well, my friend, anyway.
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> I have the same impulse to throw out everything in the fridge, regardless of its "best before" date.  It's new life time.
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> Molly
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> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain
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>> On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> It is essentially a new house on an old footprint.  The blurb says: "A secluded location for this totally rebuilt home.  Tucked down a laneway in an area of lovely homes, but walking distance to downtown.  Tastefully finished with Cape Cod wood exterior, engineered hardwood and ceramic flooring, oak staircase and 2nd floor walk-out to the deck this pretty home has lots of natural light and a lovely master bedroom across the front of the house."
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>> As if in an amphitheatre, it sits in a very sunny dell.  Bring it on!  Lots of trees and shrubs around, but not too close and claustrophobic.  They are a good buffer up the steep slope behind me to Baldwin St above, a quiet little dead-end.  To the  south, it is more open with other long properties coming down to me.  Those houses are on Walton St (the main st) and flank the entrance of my No Exit little lane that runs down the hill to me, but they, too, are buffered by trees and shrubs.  My impression is of silence except birds, despite all that is out there.  The house runs into the slope behind.  Winter might be interesting getting up the lane, but I remarked that that's why we have Subarus. :-)
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>> Two nice bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a spacious kitchen/family room. Lots of closet space.  Space for me to put a garden shed for the outside equipment and good space in the utility room beyond the kitchen and laundry.  Hard to picture where stuff will go.  I really want to start fresh and somehow shed the heavy mahogany that will overwhelm this space, and a lot more besides!
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>> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
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>>> On 6/27/2015 9:33 PM, Eleanor Braun wrote:
>>> Awesome!
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>>> Details, please.
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>>> Eleanor
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>>> On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> I believe I've bought a house!
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>>>> Marion, a pilgrim    ... today my sail I lift ....
>>>>