Well, Mr. Fox and I just bought our first house. It’s a quaint (as my mom says) country house up in the mountains, outside of the city. We’d been looking into a few real estate notices on the web, and actually only visited four residences in all, when we fell in love with this old house. As it turns out, it dates back to the very early 1900s. We don’t know the official building date, but we know the first time it appears in the books is 1903. Of course, there are many updates and renovations that have been made, but the heart of the home is old and it has a soul and I think that’s why it spoke to us. Anyway, we’ve had the keys to it for a mere two weeks, we’ve been going back and forth from our city apartment to the Laurentians on the weekend. Another great thing about this adventure, is that not only are the bones of the house great, but we bought it fully furnished, so we have couches, tables, beds and dishes galore to help us through our weekend projects. It’s such a luxury to be able to make dinner here (um, I must say, Mr. Fox cooks, I’m so lucky) after we’ve spent the day cleaning and doing a little bit of demolition.
Here are a few of the many treasures we’ve found since we got here:
1. Beautiful linens (thanks mom for the fabulous scent you gave them)
2. Old records
3. Many vases, some cute, some not
4. Doilies (Melissa, I’m saving some for you!)
5. Furniture
I’ll be sharing many more findings in the next entries.
Oh and there is still a lot of snow here, can’t wait to see what the property looks like when nature shares its colors !
Aurevoir !
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