We bought our first house!

After irritating me enough, Karina eventually got me looking for a house for us. Nita did a great job in carting us around from one complex to another and area to area. When you first start looking for a home, its quite a daunting process as the first few houses we saw I really didn’t like. I went home feeling really depressed about this whole finding a house thing. These days the rooms are so tiny, you can just fit a double bed and 2 bedside tables, never mind anything else! There are always pro’s and con’s to every place, but most of the places we came across had way to many con’s.

So after looking a while, we came across what we are going to call River Cottage.

River Cottage

I actually can’t believe houses like this exist in the price range we were looking at. We had to put up a fight for this place as the day after Karina and I saw it, they had an offer come in. Luckily it was a subject to the selling of their place, so we jumped in and applied for a straight bond, which gave the first offer 72 hours to sell or come up with the cash. But when they heard of our offer, they gave up… which meant the place was ours!

What makes the place so special?

• Its in a really quiet area in Somerset West
• 2 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, dining room, automatic garage and parking bay
• The main bedroom takes up the entire top floor of the home – so OUR room is massive!
• The back garden opens up onto a large grassy area that….. wait for it…. wait for it…. opens up onto a flowing river!
• The main bedroom overlooks the river and that is the only noise you can hear. The sound of flowing water is so calming.
• Anyone want to come around for a trout braai? There are even fish in the river!

For me, the house has this holiday type of vibe to it. Especially when you walk out into the back and can hear and see the river. It really is amazing. Our cats are going to love the grass!

With that said, it is going to be exciting as well as nerve racking. With the way cost of living is increasing almost on a weekly basis, it might be Salticrax for supper all month, not just at the end of the month, but with God’s Grace and blessings, Karina and I are really going be happy living in River Cottage.

Jason wrote this on Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 and listed it under House Hunting.