THE HOUSE WE MISSED OUT ON.

I can't believe I am doing this but I just have to!   These are pics of the house we missed out on Yesterday that I had my heart so set on at an auction.  We were neck and neck with this other lady all the way but when it went totally out of what I think was a reasonable price range,  we stopped bidding. It was so horrible to see the other lady jumping with joy that she had won it but I am very glad that we didn't pay the price that it went for as I just don't think it would be worth much more than  that in 5 - 10 year time.  The reasons I loved this house were....  it was huge,  it had an amazing garage and basement which we had already planned out (workshop, art studio, home theatre etc etc),  it had lovely wood floors and was structurally so solid, it was close to the kids school,  lovely street, neighbours,  it has only been owned by one family eva since 1954,  I could just see its potential, it was so dated but I could imagine the fun we could have modernising it,  the views were amazing way out to Rangitoto etc,  I just loved it the moment I walked in and could see our family living there forever.  I quicky pasted these photos on my blog before it went off line.  Oh well as everyone has said to me,  there will be another one,  well acutally if I hear that comment again I will roll my eyes but thats okay because it is probably true,  we are usually so so looked after and we have learnt much from this exercise.  I actually know the person who won it too which made me not want to know her anymore  LOL.  Just being honest for today!!!  Now its time to let it go but here are some photos to remember out 'luck out'.  But hey I can't wait to load photos of our cool as home when we find it. Sure its not on the market yet though!  We have only been looking all year  LOL.





Check out the yard,  every fruit tree you can imagine.


The workshop/garage,  260 square m of house altogether MATE its huge!


More of the down stairs area, which would be perfect for a home theatre.



The kitchen, dinning and lounge,  which you could modernise so creatively.  The views are lovely.


The Beautiful formica bathroom  LOL (Yuck)


An example of one of the dated bedrooms.


The amazing view out over The Barrier as well as Rangitoto to the right.


The amazing sunroom it was huge and the deck off that which is huge too,  see the lounge below also which leads out onto the sunroom and deck.



The deck just huge!

From the front of 13 Beatrice.  Real cool place.  Okay I have done this blog entry now I am moving on!  Close that book!